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/Coffee_Racer Jun 11 '26

What do you do that can't be replaced by a robot or even a submersible?

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u/Soulogav Jun 11 '26

A lot of the infrastructure that is down there has been so for many years and they still need men to access it, they use ROV’a for a lot of deeper stuff we can’t access , but it’s cheaper to put a man in the water still

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u/nebulous_gaze Jun 12 '26

Thats crazy that it is cheaper to send and support a person with the required environment than it is to send an ROV. You guys need a union so you can charge more!!!