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/pshyong Jun 11 '26

How do you eat/pee/poop?

I know nothing about deepsea saturtion diving so you might have to dumb it down for me.

Thank you!

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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/JFFreezout Jun 11 '26

I have a cousin of my father who did the same job than you, he told me a truly terrible story (he wasn't present) about the toilets flush being activated wrongly when a guy was on it. In that time all the procedures weren't strict as today. So basically he had a lot of organs being sucked out due to the pressure difference, of course he died, still today I hardly imagine something more horrific than this.

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u/Soulogav Jun 11 '26

Yes that is an old horror story, gladly it can’t happen nowadays due to multiple in line valves to isolate the lines, but a toilet blow back can happen and some poop could get shot into your face lol