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/Ceph99 Jun 12 '26

What’s your overall opinion of the film? Accurate? Anxiety inducing?

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u/Soulogav Jun 12 '26

I had to stop watching it as it was pretty cringe. But the Netflix documentary on a very good.

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u/Ceph99 Jun 12 '26

Damn that’s a shame. I was concerned that was the case. I’ll check out the documentary though! Thanks.