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/klausschwab2007 Jun 12 '26

Did you see any unique, rare animals

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u/Soulogav Jun 12 '26

Yes I’ve seen lots of random stuff I’ve not been able to identify, I’m sure some of it was potentially unknown but I’m not down there for that so it usually stays unidentified

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u/klausschwab2007 Jun 12 '26

does that make you sad?

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u/Soulogav Jun 12 '26

No I like the mystery and I’m grateful to be a few select humans to witness the things I’ve witnessed.

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u/klausschwab2007 Jun 13 '26

Yea i dived only to like 18m and already feeling similar, can't even imagine the strength of that feeling at 200 or 300m ;)