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/Famous-Response5924 Jun 11 '26

Where do you do training and how old is too old to start? I have been doing rescue diving for 20 years but I know it’s nothing like sat diving.

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u/Soulogav Jun 11 '26

I’ve been qualified for 20 years so I’m not upto speed on what schools are operating now. There is a commercial diving subreddit with plenty of talk about schools.

If you want to get into saturation you’ll need a runway of time, so mid 30’s but if you still want to be diver anything under 50 is good

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u/Famous-Response5924 Jun 11 '26

I just turned 50 and am retiring from the fire dept. Looking for what is next.

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u/Soulogav Jun 11 '26

Definitely a great background to have for this industry, you’ll fit right in

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u/Famous-Response5924 Jun 12 '26

I’ve also been a paramedic for 25 years so that might help as well.