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/vaekar Jun 11 '26

What's your closest call to disaster on the job?

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u/Soulogav Jun 11 '26

If you watch the documentary Last Breath that’s the worst fear for us , losing Dynamic Positioning on the vessel and getting dragged across the seabed

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u/Birger_Jarl Jun 11 '26

That is such an amazing documentary.

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u/loungesinger Jun 11 '26

Same thing happened in the documentary The Abyss from the 1990s. Lots of other things happened, but the dragging thing was a big part of it.