Saturation Divers Live Under the Sea for Weeks | World's Strangest

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[Pierceh]

I thought their main pod where they live just sat in the water. It's honestly a lot more comforting to know its sitting in the ship

[simunator]

"im an saturation diver" - no one bats an eye
"im an astronauts" - panties reign, you're a national hero
same job, different densities

[MrSwordstroker]

Going to the toilet is always a massive loss of gas mate

[airman]

It's like being an astronaut...

Just without all the perks

[cbrwlf]

As a society, we tend to admire Astronauts. But I have much more respect for Aquanauts. A lot can go wrong on the ocean floor. I have always had a respect for both *nauts, but we don't give nearly enough congratulations to Aquanauts, so good job all you who delve into the depths of our least understood environment!

[ventibreeze]

I honestly don’t know how they do it, and the immense danger involved, straight up respect for these awesome men

[PatrickPierceBateman]

I would be extremely paranoid about problems with the compression chamber. Imagine if it suddenly failed and you got blown to pieces.

[VirtualSuperSoldier]

Damn, I couldn't imagine being cooped up in such a small place for a week. I'd go nuts.

[elisabethandersen]

I like to think I'm a pretty calm person, but that place would give me so much claustrophobia I'd absolutely lose it within minutes.

[grimlund]

I heard a documentary on the swedish radio about the pioneer divers in the offshore bussines in the North Sea. They did tests on the divers in saturation. It was the same there. They were locked inside those steel coffins for about a month. The divers get mad and started to hallucinate and stuff. People flipped out. They interviewed a swedish diver who said that 21 of his diving colleagues did commit sucide in their later years.
Totally sick. But that was back in the 70:s

[richardgrissom]

I remember my first time going on a public scuba charter, we were going down to our lowest level at the time and me and my step brother watched a man go up in less than two minutes, and I remember immediately seeing how sick he got and how painful being bent looked.

[Callisto]

The fact that their chambers are located on a boat makes me feel much much better and safer haha

[TheUnderwaterCentre]

Nice use of subsea footage of our commercial divers in training in Fort William, filmed by our ROV pilot tech students also in training. Great video which explains sat diving nicely

[MrTigerlore]

With 500+ feet worth of underwater pressure, if someone opened the diving bell on the surface, everyone’s body would just explode.

[DanielPierce]

I’ve known about this any always wondered what would happen if they had to abandon ship, and guess what, they have thought of that, they have a pressurized life boat. The whole thing is so cool!

[KC_FlightChief]

What they don’t tell you is they fill ballasts with air to make the dive bell rise, but it’s the divers’ weight of their massive balls which causes the bell to sink back down again.

[klj]

I wonder if they have a psych evaluation before they get that job? It seems harder mentally than physically.

[roberttheiss]

These guys are badass AF. It's amazing what some humans can do. I would not do this for $1B though, it's insane.

[dawna]

These guys are incredible!!! Such respect for these guys!! They should be on the cover of Time Magazine!

[Smudgy]

I’d love the diving deep part of this job but being in a confined pressurised space with other people for weeks sounds horrible to me