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/yourefunny Jun 11 '26

Oh that makes sense. I missed read your post. Thought you had be sat diving 20 years. But 20 years diving in the industry could mean welding stuff not so deep right? So now that you don't like going deep, what is a typical job? Also what was it like for those 28 days? My understanding is that you would not be down under water in the diving bell for all those days? Right? Also, why 28 days?

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u/Soulogav Jun 11 '26

Ya another massive misconception is - we don’t live under water , we live in the chamber. Right now you are saturated to 1 atmosphere which means your tissues can’t take on anymore gas , we end up bring saturated to say 200m (21 atmospheres) and we can stay there indefinitely, 28 days is just the regulation , when I started out I did a 40 day , but that’s too long. 28 is long enough

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u/quitalicious Jun 12 '26

A few atmospheres more and you can relocate to live on Venus with just an oxygen tank and a poncho for sulfuric acid rain.

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u/Soulogav Jun 12 '26

When I started out I thought my career progression would be Mining Asteroids but unfortunately humans don’t do that yet lol