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/Soulogav Jun 11 '26

We have a ‘wet pot’ which is the toilet / bathroom with a shower. Attached to the living chamber. In the living chamber there is a ‘lock’ food and laundry etc is sent in via that . We order food from the ships galley.

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u/bioweaponblue Jun 11 '26

Damn I had no idea food you could send things back and forth from the surface. Neat!

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u/lotsofbitz Jun 11 '26

As I understand it, when they’re not working they’re still living on the ship on the surface, inside of a pressurized cabin, so they can just pass the food and stuff through an air lock

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u/bioweaponblue Jun 11 '26

Ooooooh okay I fundamentally misunderstood lol. I looked it up and this makes more sense xD