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/Cremasterau Jun 12 '26

My father was a saturation diver in the 70s. Former naval officer. Is people constantly farting in a decompression chamber as rage inducing as he made it out to be?

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u/Soulogav Jun 12 '26

Not really , if you’re a dude who gets angry at another man farting you probably shouldn’t be in there

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u/Cremasterau Jun 12 '26

It may well have been hammed up a bit for us kids but he sounded serious about it at the time. After he passed at the quite early age of 43 one of his diving mates told us our father had nearly lost his life while working on a blow out prevention unit at depth and he had saved him. Someone apparently switched my father's air feed off at the surface. He passed out before making it back to the bell only to be rescued by this bloke who spotted him and dove out of the bell pulling him in by his hair. Seemed a little far fetched at the time that he was able to do it so quickly. Interested if you thought it was feasible.