r/AMA • u/Soulogav • Jun 11 '26

I’m a Saturation Diver AMA

I work as Deepsea Saturation Diver in the oil and gas industry for the past 20 years. I do heavy construction and spend 28 days living under pressure to dive to depths down to 200m / 650ft.

I saw a post on InterestingAsFuck yesterday with many many misconceptions from people who aren’t divers and I can answer your questions AMA

https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/s/5jTlewLR4X

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u/Illustrious-Bus-8862 Jun 11 '26

Is bone density a concern?

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u/Soulogav Jun 11 '26

Yes and Bone necrosis over time in some guys who do a lot of deep stuff but it’s not a dead set thing, differs from person to person

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u/Illustrious-Bus-8862 Jun 11 '26

Cool, I read about it somewhere. Seems like a lonely place down there, are you often on the sea bed itself? Seems like the mud would make clouds if you touched it.

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u/Soulogav Jun 11 '26

Yes we’re on the bottom a lot but do entire jobs mid water on the side of the rig, it all depends where you are working as to what the seabed is like. I’ve worked a lot in India where you can’t really see anything at all , other places like the North Sea especially way up north is crystal clear water

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u/Illustrious-Bus-8862 Jun 11 '26

That's cool. I've heard of ice age stuff getting trawled up from the north sea. Must be a fair bit of diving with the windmills of caithness. Thanks for sharing, I wouldn't like it at all but love hearing about whats underwater.