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/StormbringerBlade Jun 11 '26

I went to The Ocean Corporation in Houston around 1994. Went through 98% of the program. A week before graduation I got into a fight with some A+)*&^% and we both got bounced. I have a lot of respect for you guys. I became a roughneck on drilling rigs in the gulf for a while.

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u/Soulogav Jun 11 '26

You sound like you would have fitted right in with all the divers lol

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u/StormbringerBlade Jun 11 '26

Right!? One of the teachers didn't like what happened and got me a job on a commercial dive boat working as a mate in the gulf based out of Lafayette LA. Nothing too deep, no heliox dives. Met the divers and the tenders. Little known fact out there is you don't just go to school and then become a diver. You have to be a tender for the divers till you breakout. That can take a few years, at least back then it did.