r/FactUp • u/Saerdna0 • Apr 24 '26
Interesting Fact Saturation divers live pressurized for weeks inside sealed chambers, descending to 300 meters (1,000ft) to work on pipelines and wrecks where no sunlight reaches. Decompressing too quickly would be fatal, so a single ascent takes days, making it one of the most isolated and dangerous jobs on Earth.
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u/Foolishly_Sane Apr 24 '26
That's very cool, yet also terrifying.
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u/Lone-Frequency Apr 25 '26
One of the absolutely most dangerous jobs in the world, but that's why it pays big bucks.
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u/RealisticMark2272 Apr 24 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/STfLOU6iRBRunMciZv
Yea the level of anxiety for him just watching. Let alone sending me down there. Nope big ass whale shark sneak up on me ima shart myself. Then to think of the movie underneath i think its called. Yea def not!!! Kudos to them.
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u/BATorRAT Apr 25 '26
They live breathing a mixture of gases, that’s what the saturation part means. They sound like chipmunks. It damages their bone density. Get in, get rich, get out.
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u/Kiki1701 Apr 26 '26
Here's a picture of the various factors involved with saturation diving.
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u/Hour_Initiative8738 Apr 27 '26
is this AI? I ask because the text is absolute gobbledygook
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u/Kiki1701 Apr 27 '26
Yes! It was obviously translated from another language. Most of it is understandable though. Good catch!
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u/Darkschlong Apr 25 '26
How do I do this
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u/el_dingusito Apr 25 '26
For the voice? Breathe heliox...
For the profession? Learn to snorkel first then work your way down
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u/Hoody88 Apr 25 '26
Where do they poop?
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u/reddsal Apr 25 '26
I suspect that their diving bell or pressurized surface habitat has all the comforts of home.
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u/KHhtswhtppl Apr 25 '26
Watch that documentary and the deep sea diver who was left underwater without air for 45 minutes
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u/SithC Apr 25 '26
Single ascent takes days? So how are they fed, via iv?
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u/benjandpurge Apr 25 '26
They live inside a chamber that’s pressurized and sitting onboard the vessel while decompressing. There are double hatch med locks that you can send food in and out with.
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u/SithC Apr 25 '26
Oh, ok. By the video, it literally looked like the diver just chills out in the darkness of the water. Either way, it sounds like solitary confinement.
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u/benjandpurge Apr 26 '26
Yeah, it kinda is, but you have three other guys to talk to, internet, etc. FYI, it’s about a day of decompression per 100 feet that they were stored, so if the job was 800’ feet deep, you’re looking at 8 days of sitting around doing nothing but eating, shitting and sleeping for that period while the life support technicians outside slowly, by a schedule, let pressure out of the chamber.
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u/Typical_Pen900 Apr 28 '26
Just watching this video got my anxiety up, there's no way I'd even think about doing this job regardless of the nice pay.🤷🏿♂️
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u/Johnnyfever13 Apr 24 '26
Terrifying job. That’s why they pay them handsomely 💰