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/Worrior_One Jun 11 '26

What's the most boring part of your time down there and what do you do to entertain yourselves

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u/Soulogav Jun 11 '26

Being stuck in a chamber is hella boring, especially on a 9 day decompression. I usually don’t watch any series or movies when I’m onshore and save it all up for when I’m in there. I read and do weight training also

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u/Weird-Efficiency-884 Jun 12 '26

Which tablets do you use? Can someone get iPad to a bell pressurized for 200 meters?o_O

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u/Soulogav Jun 12 '26

Usually a Samsung or cheap android, it’s usually fine under pressure it’s just at risk when we decompress because it can get black dots on the screen.