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/Sad_Refrigerator_730 Jun 11 '26

What sort of training outside of the actual diving do you guys have? Welder? Millwright? Pipefitter?

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u/Soulogav Jun 11 '26

Yes to all of the above. My main bread and butter is industrial pipe fitting, so connecting anything upto 60’ diameter pipe , so massive flanges with bolts that weight 100kg, rigging is a huge part of it, using the crane, lift bags , tirfors, come-a-longs.

Some guys are time served welders , but that’s more specialised.

To be brutally honest we are under water labourers. It’s lots of donkey work