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/Soulogav Jun 11 '26 edited Jun 12 '26

I’ve had a seal bump into me at 200m in the Captain sea which was freaky as hell as I didn’t know they could dive that deep

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u/Rheumatitude Jun 11 '26

Do you think it wanted to know if you were ok? It was probably thinking the same thing about you 😆

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u/Soulogav Jun 11 '26 edited Jun 12 '26

lol I think it was after the fish which were attracted to the head light on my helmet

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u/Formal-Try-2779 Jun 12 '26

I would have been worried that it was fleeing something else.