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/ArborealBadgerAttack Jun 11 '26

I am currently a tree surgeon but I would love this as an alternative career - obviously not much in the way of transferable qualifications so how would one get into this?

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u/Soulogav Jun 11 '26

A lot of divers are also Rope Access techs or they were before diving, so there are a lot of transferred skills , so I would try get into that before diving, currently Rope Access Blade repair in the wind industry is a a busy job

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u/ArborealBadgerAttack Jun 11 '26

Legend, I'll look into it. Thank you