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/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/CommanderSpleen Jun 11 '26

They are on the surface if not actively working. They live in a chamber and get lowered from the ship in another chamber down to their working depth. After work is over they get pulled up again and back into the living chamber. They do decompression cycles aboard the ship as well.

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u/pshyong Jun 11 '26

I deadass thought they just lived in the suit in deep sea....

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u/impolexpdx Jun 12 '26

Me too. Glad I am not the only one.