Homosexicle I don’t know... if there’s an emergency it’s not like someone can open the hatch. Doesn’t really matter... This job is really scary if you ask me.
@@mrslinkydragon9910 yeah, literally, ripped/blown to pieces, it was awful, goodness, I'd be terrified to live in something like that, always knowing what can happen in an instant
Without all the perks..?! Being That Far under the sea, viewing and experiencing things 99% of the world only has thru the internet(or their dreams), knowing that every moment you're down there could lead to a discovery NO one else has Ever made...? Not to mention the cojones it would take to volunteer for such a formidable & treacherous career. And the discipline, sacrifice & well deserved respect they receive. That all sounds like plenty Perks to me, man!
There are no perks because they are not in space look at the disparity between the iss and this decompression chamber they can't afford to make mistakes it's shows by how spartan the living area is etc. They couldn't risk a fire! No water near electronics here ! Unlike the iss bullshit! Folks when you wake up you can't unsee! !
ruclips.net/video/NeVwqfFSggA/видео.html here is the link if you want to know what happened, don't watch if you have a weak stomach though fair warning. It's not just rumors unfortunately
You’re a hell of a lot more likely to be ripped apart in a car accident. But I bet you’re not that paranoid while driving? People really don’t comprehend risk statistics
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!
ksiyaskid, they can't be reached in a few hours because of the pressure differential. If you need to get out of the pressure chamber in order to go to a hospital, for instance, it can take a week or more to depressurize.
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.
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
What do you think any extreme job in its infancy years was a bed of roses? Every job that’s dangerous it’s rules and regulations for situations are written in blood.
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.
Only reason to do that is if there’s no other option…like being attacked by a shark… I couldn’t imagine. Terrible way to go by the bends but it is survivable.
@@TsunayoshiSawadaTenthimagine slowly inflating into the stay puft marshmallow man. First your eyes grow to the size of baseballs and pop open like balloons. Then your body explodes at the softest points first, which is everywhere not covered by bones. The stomach and between the legs. Kaboom.
You really wondering if they have mental health exams for guys locked up for a month working on critical infrastructure of billion dollar rigs and are a vital assets of a nations's economy, safety, and environment. And although many are privately owned companies, many are also government or work as government contractors, all of this roughly would qualify them to been seen as strategic national assets. Yeah, drug test and a reference isn't all that's required here.
Honestly not for me, because that way you have a massive pressure difference to the outside. If the living quarters were on the ocean floor there would be no pressure difference.
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
Any reason why instead of bringing up the divers to the support boat, they don't send down a bigger bell so the divers remain at depth until they are finished? Seems kinda risky bringing them to the surface each time. There are benefits to being on the boat- proximity to support, natural light, not stuck below if the weather turns bad but still would it not speed up the process if the divers remained at depth and worked shifts to cut the time spent under saturation? Also any medical reports on why the airmix does cut divers lifespans. I presume these divers would also be ultrafit, no heavy lifting. No sign of stronger drysuits to counter the pressure or rebreathers vs restrictive power-air cables and suit heating
Any reason why instead of bringing up the divers to the support boat, they don't send down a bigger bell so the divers remain at depth until they are finished? Seems kinda risky bringing them to the surface each time. There are benefits to being on the boat- proximity to support, natural light, not stuck below if the weather turns bad but still would it not speed up the process if the divers remained at depth and worked shifts to cut the time spent under saturation?
Stephen Doherty ... so they can move to different locations. And so they have support staff right there and can’t get stranded. If you are working on an oil pipeline that traverses 500 miles undersea and you need to do work all along it... leaving a habitat under the water becomes a pain. The divers have to travel farther and father to each location... this way, it’s like working on a crane, spend a day or two at one location, overnight move to the next, spend a day there doing maintenance, move to the next spot and so on... Also, they might be 6 to 10 day from port... it takes 6 days for the divers to decompress to sea level... why have to wait out at the dive site for 6 days of them coming up, they are already on the boat and can do their decompression during the trip home.
@@stephendoherty8291mobility, food, heat, and being able to move about! There are usually 2-3 shifts of divers depending on the job if a rush job then more divers and bigger habitats they are in wet suits not dry suits with pipes in them where hot water is pumped into the suit! It does not take any longer to do the job if divers were stuck in a hapitat on the bottom or on the surface you only work set hours by law! Thats why these guys get from 1200 to 1500£ per day lock to lock ( up to 28 days )
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!
It makes me happy to know saturation diving is possible. I wonder where the limits of human physiology are though.... If it's just a matter of scale then could you not continually compress until you reach 1km of saturation or would the pressure be too much for even the bones of a human? I realise pressure increases 1 atmosphere with every 10 meters so 1km (or 100 times 10 meters would equate to 100 atmospheres.) That's a heckin lot of pressure that I'm unsure would be tolerable, but what if it was? Will subs and ROVs be our only window into the world of the deep?
Bones would be crushed at approx. 35.000 meters according to physicists. More than 3 times deeper than the deepest point in the ocean; Mariana Trench. Remember, bones are extremely tough. You don't feel the pressure that much on your body because our body is 70% water, and water can not be compressed.
I'm a saturated diver, been doing it for 9 years, deepest I've gone is 818ft, we can go over 1,000ft.. but most companies won't pay that risk going that deep, they will rov most of the time
The chambers they are seen sleeping in aren't underwater. They are parts of a decompression chamber on the deck of the ship. Only the diving bell goes underwater.
Imagine you’ve just come up to do your decompression stint, and you suffer a massive heart attack. You’re on the floor writhing and no one can help you, you’re surrounded by people and all they have to do is open the doors, but they can’t. Then your team is stuck with your body for a month
They do have airlocks to transport things, but they would need to leave your body inside the airlock to decompress as well or you will be quite exploded when they release the pressure. So yeah they still need to decompress for at least a few days but at least it’s not in the same room as the other divers.
I hate the way film/tv companies 'almost' get their facts right with diving. They never actually sit down with those of us in the business and get the true story 100% correct. But that's just me being picky I guess.
Meh. A) as someone else pointed out, it's better to decompress fewer times throughout your life. B) they get paid a SHITLOAD. Like 1400 a day. These guys earn their keep, but it's a mighty fine keep. C) Some jobs have got to be done, man. Might as well do 'em as cheaply as you can.
Well I would rather do this than decompress for 6+ days underwater. Like if you dive down to 1000 feet without this system you would need to slowly swim up 100 feet a day and wait for 10 days for the whole ascent. Doesn’t sound fun. How would you even eat?
I always wanted to be an under water welder, but it is impossible to get into the profession, no matter how many qualification you have. I love the nature of this kind of work.
@@gringochucha Yeah it’s not that hard to get into the work. It may be hard to find consistent work but if you have the qualifications you can find jobs lol. It’s not any harder to get into than any other profession.
Living in Norway, I wouldn't have to worry about that. My dad was a saturation diver on various oil rigs in the North Sea for over 20 years, as well as recovering bodies from the submarine Kursk etc.
so if your vessel is pressurised and youve already slowly "got used to" the pressure, then youre able to safely go up down however much you want? that's awesome
diver dave Sat divers generally make 80k and upwards. It's not a job you get out of college, though. You spend years making 50k as a underwater welder before you can even apply to those jobs
@@Max-zr7hr "they make way more than 80k going rate is like 1400/day for sat divers" Yes, but they're not working 52 weeks per year. $1400 (or more) per day doesn't tell the whole story.
Ok but imagine being there with T. H. for 28 days, that is just wholesome and exciting. Sadly, T. H. died because of a clearly regrettable engineering-failure. Rest in heaven Truls Hellevik.
My god, balls of steel - how the hell do they do it ?? Not just for a day - but 28 days, living and working in those conditions - i cant get my head round it. They are superhuman, literally - physically fit and strong, nerves of steel, able to stay calm and focussed, plus rigorous attention to safety, whilst being in danger! unbelievable
@@edwardsmith3838 Idk lots of people die doing this diving. Whether being killed when working at the sea floor, being sick and not getting help for 10 days, or getting explosively decompressed. I think it’s actually pretty comparable danger levels. No one has actually ever died in space, but people have totally died just sitting in their dive pressure chambers. Astronauts can be back to earth in 4 hours at most, sat divers need multiple days to get major help outside.
If an aquanaut doesn't do his job, you shall feel it in your bones (increase in oil/gas prices, pollution or disruption of Internet services). If an astronaut doesn't do his job, few care because that job has nearly zero impact in our everyday lives.
I've seen this job related to being an astronaut but spacewalks are kind of required because if you were to create a drone for the task you would have to ship it up in addition to the crew and everything else already up there. It's just not practical as long as we are getting things into space by lighting off giant fireworks with people and material on the top. This however seems like it would be better for everyone involved if specialized construction drones handled as much as possible. Chuck welder robot over side of boat, let it sink, keep it working non-stopped till the job is done. If you can land a plane on the other side of the world by remote control you can remote control a robot into building and maintaining a pipeline.
£1400 per day, for that, you see on Utube what you do. The rub is, actually doing it, wearing a Kirby Morgan 17 on your bonce for six hours, and getting in some tight spots, with sea water half way up your chin. It's nothing like watching it on Utube,or like snokelling in Majorca. Been there, done it, got the tshirt and seen the movie, 22 years, in that time, counting all the days in "Sat" I've spent FOUR years in a chamber,over and out.
We use helium in the breathing medium as it has no narcotic effect at depth as does nitrogen. Helium is a very light gas which allows the vocal chords in your throat to vibrate unusually fast and that causes the high-pitched voice.
which seems like a lot until you realize they are the top 1% of divers, been in the industry for 10-20+ years, paid for school and gear, and only work a couple jobs a year if they are lucky
The bends.. yeah. No. If you suddenly decompress from that depth your body will literally burst open. If you're curious just google "explosive decompression" and have a look at the images. NSFW obviously...
Depends on the emergency tbh, they can decompress in 24+ hours so it’s somewhat possible to survive. One guy had his literal intestines sucked out of his asshole when the toiled he was sitting on was flushed too early. A crewmate had to shove them back and he somehow survived.
@ 500 ft they are at 15 atmospheres, every 30 ft in salt water is another unit of pressure equivalent to the 1 atmosphere you are under while standing on the surface of earth.
Once I got comfortable with all the boys I would eat a tonne of cabbage and jalapenos and drink like 10 litres of beer before I got in the little submarine thing with them. Then when the gas expands I would treat them all to some of the funniest noises they've heard
People always go on about how Space is the most dangerous environment, but going from 1 to 0 atmospheres ain't half as dangerous as going from 1 to 30 atmospheres (@300 metres) and back again.
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
I could never work as a diver, imagine if someone makes the mistake of opening the chamber, you're body would be instantly ripped apart... scary
@@booxwee3804 look up the diving bell accident. Only one person got ripped apart the others had less gory deaths
Homosexicle I don’t know... if there’s an emergency it’s not like someone can open the hatch. Doesn’t really matter... This job is really scary if you ask me.
Nah more boring. Underwater facility would've actually been more practical and cool. Like in the Abyss.
@@mrslinkydragon9910 yeah, literally, ripped/blown to pieces, it was awful, goodness, I'd be terrified to live in something like that, always knowing what can happen in an instant
Going to the toilet is always a massive loss of gas mate
MrSparkles how is it dangerous though??
@@slehcyo8223 if your sat on that toilet when it's flushed,... youre going to get your bowels removed. Through your ring piece.
beware the dreaded sea pickle!!
@@kf8575 and that has happened - in the early days.
I dont know why they bother with all that. Just tell the boys to pee into bottles and poop into bags or something. Still hygenic.
"im an saturation diver" - no one bats an eye
"im an astronauts" - panties reign, you're a national hero
same job, different densities
lol, except astronauts sit at the pinnacle of human knowledge, in their respective fields, and often in more than one
@@ajv336 so do deep underwater diver. sure, it may be cheaper to be a diver. fact is those equipment are still as equally to maintain
@Karl T this man just said astronauts and space aren't real lmao
@@dwnturn ok boomer
@@mr.mysteriousyt6118 shoot and a miss lmao
It's like being an astronaut...
Just without all the perks
Without all the perks..?! Being That Far under the sea, viewing and experiencing things 99% of the world only has thru the internet(or their dreams), knowing that every moment you're down there could lead to a discovery NO one else has Ever made...? Not to mention the cojones it would take to volunteer for such a formidable & treacherous career. And the discipline, sacrifice & well deserved respect they receive. That all sounds like plenty Perks to me, man!
You make more money than an astronaut.
They make 500k or more a year. Thats plenty.
airman The world is flat.
There are no perks because they are not in space look at the disparity between the iss and this decompression chamber they can't afford to make mistakes it's shows by how spartan the living area is etc. They couldn't risk a fire! No water near electronics here ! Unlike the iss bullshit! Folks when you wake up you can't unsee! !
I would be extremely paranoid about problems with the compression chamber. Imagine if it suddenly failed and you got blown to pieces.
He doesnt know the story where they lost pressure and one guy got forced through a hole the size of like a quarter
All fake rumors. Nothing would happen except that you would get the bends and hurt like hell for a day or two.
ruclips.net/video/NeVwqfFSggA/видео.html here is the link if you want to know what happened, don't watch if you have a weak stomach though fair warning. It's not just rumors unfortunately
You’re a hell of a lot more likely to be ripped apart in a car accident. But I bet you’re not that paranoid while driving? People really don’t comprehend risk statistics
vin 950 the rumor was that someone went through a hole the size of a quarter
Damn, I couldn't imagine being cooped up in such a small place for a week. I'd go nuts.
You get used to it, and it does pay the bills.
Adam Sandaver Only if you're offshore and on sat, if not it's pretty mediocre pay
Do they have the WiFi password though?
You wouldn't go nuts, instead you would nut
A week?! They are in that thing for a month
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!
the aquanauts can be reached in a few hours id guess... astronauts are in fuckin space.
ksiyaskid, they can't be reached in a few hours because of the pressure differential. If you need to get out of the pressure chamber in order to go to a hospital, for instance, it can take a week or more to depressurize.
Decompression takes approximately 3 days for every 100 meters of depth + 1 day... Record was 700 meter, so decompression took 22 days...
Don't you call them argonauts
Did not know they're called Aquanauts xD
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.
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
grimlund Vault-Tec testing gaz mixes on subject. Just another fallout shelter experiment...
What do you think any extreme job in its infancy years was a bed of roses? Every job that’s dangerous it’s rules and regulations for situations are written in blood.
They prolly didn't have any entertainment when they were off their shift
@@hollisjones6835 I know that they had a TV. But thats like it all.
And they dont had any internet back then.
@@hollisjones6835 each other was the entertainment 😉
a massive respect to these divers.
I honestly don’t know how they do it, and the immense danger involved, straight up respect for these awesome men
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.
Could you describe it if you don’t mind me asking? I can’t imagine what it’s like to witness it
Only reason to do that is if there’s no other option…like being attacked by a shark… I couldn’t imagine. Terrible way to go by the bends but it is survivable.
Why would they do that?
@@TsunayoshiSawadaTenthimagine slowly inflating into the stay puft marshmallow man. First your eyes grow to the size of baseballs and pop open like balloons. Then your body explodes at the softest points first, which is everywhere not covered by bones. The stomach and between the legs. Kaboom.
@@inezneal6917they prob had to poo
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.
With 500+ feet worth of underwater pressure, if someone opened the diving bell on the surface, everyone’s body would just explode.
It's happened. Go read about the Byford Dolphin accident.
@@tnexus13
I regret looking that up
I'm not surprised.
Hope you still managed to enjoy cranberry sauce on Christmas day.
@@tnexus13
I haven't eaten or drank anything since I saw that horrific accident, which has and will scar me for life.
Well, definitely don't watch this mythbusters clip then.
ruclips.net/video/pRC5R1jRO58/видео.html
I wonder if they have a psych evaluation before they get that job? It seems harder mentally than physically.
You really wondering if they have mental health exams for guys locked up for a month working on critical infrastructure of billion dollar rigs and are a vital assets of a nations's economy, safety, and environment. And although many are privately owned companies, many are also government or work as government contractors, all of this roughly would qualify them to been seen as strategic national assets. Yeah, drug test and a reference isn't all that's required here.
@@mtmadigan82 Anyone can go insane inside that box faster than we can imagine.
@@paumasabad1449 couldnt pay me enough
@@mtmadigan82 for real. 25 dollars an hour? Not in this life
@@knucklesskinner253 they make around $45K a month.
The fact that their chambers are located on a boat makes me feel much much better and safer haha
Look up the Byford Dolphin accident it’s still dangerous.
no what if the boat capsizes
Honestly not for me, because that way you have a massive pressure difference to the outside. If the living quarters were on the ocean floor there would be no pressure difference.
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
Any reason why instead of bringing up the divers to the support boat, they don't send down a bigger bell so the divers remain at depth until they are finished? Seems kinda risky bringing them to the surface each time. There are benefits to being on the boat- proximity to support, natural light, not stuck below if the weather turns bad but still would it not speed up the process if the divers remained at depth and worked shifts to cut the time spent under saturation? Also any medical reports on why the airmix does cut divers lifespans. I presume these divers would also be ultrafit, no heavy lifting. No sign of stronger drysuits to counter the pressure or rebreathers vs restrictive power-air cables and suit heating
Any reason why instead of bringing up the divers to the support boat, they don't send down a bigger bell so the divers remain at depth until they are finished? Seems kinda risky bringing them to the surface each time. There are benefits to being on the boat- proximity to support, natural light, not stuck below if the weather turns bad but still would it not speed up the process if the divers remained at depth and worked shifts to cut the time spent under saturation?
Stephen Doherty ... so they can move to different locations. And so they have support staff right there and can’t get stranded.
If you are working on an oil pipeline that traverses 500 miles undersea and you need to do work all along it... leaving a habitat under the water becomes a pain. The divers have to travel farther and father to each location... this way, it’s like working on a crane, spend a day or two at one location, overnight move to the next, spend a day there doing maintenance, move to the next spot and so on...
Also, they might be 6 to 10 day from port... it takes 6 days for the divers to decompress to sea level... why have to wait out at the dive site for 6 days of them coming up, they are already on the boat and can do their decompression during the trip home.
Add to that the fact that it would be extremely cold to remain on the seabed continuously, 100-200m down.. much warmer topside.
@@stephendoherty8291mobility, food, heat, and being able to move about! There are usually 2-3 shifts of divers depending on the job if a rush job then more divers and bigger habitats they are in wet suits not dry suits with pipes in them where hot water is pumped into the suit! It does not take any longer to do the job if divers were stuck in a hapitat on the bottom or on the surface you only work set hours by law! Thats why these guys get from 1200 to 1500£ per day lock to lock ( up to 28 days )
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!
These guys are badass AF. It's amazing what some humans can do. I would not do this for $1B though, it's insane.
For 1 Bill? I’d do it for a month max
I think we have a potential Mars crew right there :-)
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
Costly for the Oil business, HAH! Good one.
That chamber turns into the most extreme environment when they eat Mexican food
"Being a mother is the most difficult job on the planet"
Lol that bill burr skit
TheSantaslilhelper Doesn't that just make the job the most important one, not necessarily the most difficult.
+Beep Beep I Is Jeep agreed, but it doesn't make it the most important one ether.
Dude these guys get months off a year. A mom does not have a day off basically ever in the first 4-5 years and even then she'd feel bad about it.
Daniel yeah what a load of shit
It makes me happy to know saturation diving is possible. I wonder where the limits of human physiology are though.... If it's just a matter of scale then could you not continually compress until you reach 1km of saturation or would the pressure be too much for even the bones of a human? I realise pressure increases 1 atmosphere with every 10 meters so 1km (or 100 times 10 meters would equate to 100 atmospheres.) That's a heckin lot of pressure that I'm unsure would be tolerable, but what if it was? Will subs and ROVs be our only window into the world of the deep?
Bones would be crushed at approx. 35.000 meters according to physicists. More than 3 times deeper than the deepest point in the ocean; Mariana Trench. Remember, bones are extremely tough. You don't feel the pressure that much on your body because our body is 70% water, and water can not be compressed.
I'm a saturated diver, been doing it for 9 years, deepest I've gone is 818ft, we can go over 1,000ft.. but most companies won't pay that risk going that deep, they will rov most of the time
@@Brianfultz805 wow, that is a pretty impressive depth. Thanks for coming along to tell me despite the age of this comment.
@@Brianfultz805as they start to compress you in the chamber do you feel the pressure on your body and sinuses, etc... Does it mess you up at first
"Tea, coffee, biscuits... You know, normal food things."
The chambers they are seen sleeping in aren't underwater. They are parts of a decompression chamber on the deck of the ship. Only the diving bell goes underwater.
That’s what is says near the end of the video.
Thanks, tips.
Not like the video very clearly explained that...
Imagine you’ve just come up to do your decompression stint, and you suffer a massive heart attack. You’re on the floor writhing and no one can help you, you’re surrounded by people and all they have to do is open the doors, but they can’t. Then your team is stuck with your body for a month
I suspect they've thought of things like that and have a solution to the problem.
Not a month, but six days.
They do have airlocks to transport things, but they would need to leave your body inside the airlock to decompress as well or you will be quite exploded when they release the pressure. So yeah they still need to decompress for at least a few days but at least it’s not in the same room as the other divers.
RIP to the Byford Dolphin diving crew!
yes 😢
I hate the way film/tv companies 'almost' get their facts right with diving. They never actually sit down with those of us in the business and get the true story 100% correct. But that's just me being picky I guess.
What did they get wrong in this video, I want to hear what a diver thinks they got wrong
The bends wont make you go pop, rather gas expands in your tissue which can lead to death or paralysis.
pics or it didn't happen
Yeah , this one left a lot out.
All these recommendations recently.... The algorithm has no chill
I have to imagine they would do well on a space station as well
"would be costly for the oil companies" thank god they came up with this solution wouldn't want them to lose money
Well to be completely fair it's healthier to do it this way as well.
Meh. A) as someone else pointed out, it's better to decompress fewer times throughout your life. B) they get paid a SHITLOAD. Like 1400 a day. These guys earn their keep, but it's a mighty fine keep. C) Some jobs have got to be done, man. Might as well do 'em as cheaply as you can.
@@RichardTaylor1800 it does tax the body though
Well I would rather do this than decompress for 6+ days underwater. Like if you dive down to 1000 feet without this system you would need to slowly swim up 100 feet a day and wait for 10 days for the whole ascent. Doesn’t sound fun. How would you even eat?
I always wanted to be an under water welder, but it is impossible to get into the profession, no matter how many qualification you have. I love the nature of this kind of work.
They require alot of experience
I would have thought there's a lot of demand.
@@gringochucha Yeah it’s not that hard to get into the work. It may be hard to find consistent work but if you have the qualifications you can find jobs lol. It’s not any harder to get into than any other profession.
Living in Norway, I wouldn't have to worry about that. My dad was a saturation diver on various oil rigs in the North Sea for over 20 years, as well as recovering bodies from the submarine Kursk etc.
@@Antarathdid your dad do the course at statens dykkerskole in Trondheim or INPP in france?
byford dolphin accident... what can go wrong
I was gonna try and pursue this route as a welder but turns out I have a damn iffy heart
There isn't enough money in the world to get me to do this job. God bless them.
It is like being on a space craft! No bugs!
It's crazy how someone can figuratively be the closest to an astronaut. While literally being the furthest from astronauts.
so if your vessel is pressurised and youve already slowly "got used to" the pressure, then youre able to safely go up down however much you want? that's awesome
0:39 looks just like space station
I was a sat diver for 3 years I only went 345ft
diver dave Sat divers generally make 80k and upwards. It's not a job you get out of college, though. You spend years making 50k as a underwater welder before you can even apply to those jobs
PSFY 777 500 feet for me
@@collinspecht6725 underwater welders are the highest paid trade per hour. 50k a month more like it.
@@collinspecht6725they make way more than 80k going rate is like 1400/day for sat divers
@@Max-zr7hr "they make way more than 80k going rate is like 1400/day for sat divers"
Yes, but they're not working 52 weeks per year. $1400 (or more) per day doesn't tell the whole story.
A saturation diving crew had an airlock malfunction in the 80s, and just... popped...
Decompressing after a workweek gets a new meaning
What happens if a diver get injured or sick while working? Do they have to wait 6 days to decompress first before being evacuated?
That’s a very good question
logically yes
I need a horror video game about this..
Bioshock
never watched a video with more unsettling references to gasses than this shortish clip.
Men like this have absolute balls of steel. Extremely brave.
Almost like going to space but smaller and no view, brave dudes I must say
These guys are literally astronauts, but upside down
And make a REAL difference in society.
Ok but imagine being there with T. H. for 28 days, that is just wholesome and exciting. Sadly, T. H. died because of a clearly regrettable engineering-failure. Rest in heaven Truls Hellevik.
My god, balls of steel - how the hell do they do it ?? Not just for a day - but 28 days, living and working in those conditions - i cant get my head round it. They are superhuman, literally - physically fit and strong, nerves of steel, able to stay calm and focussed, plus rigorous attention to safety, whilst being in danger! unbelievable
This has to be THE most extreme work environment on Earth. In fact this looks just as bad as working in space with even more cramped quarters.
working in space is actually quite pleasant compared to this
Although you probably don't have the one in a hundred chance of dying every time you go to work, unlike astronauts.
etoipiplus1237 how do astronauts have a 1 in 100 chance of dying on the way to work?
@@edwardsmith3838 Idk lots of people die doing this diving. Whether being killed when working at the sea floor, being sick and not getting help for 10 days, or getting explosively decompressed. I think it’s actually pretty comparable danger levels. No one has actually ever died in space, but people have totally died just sitting in their dive pressure chambers. Astronauts can be back to earth in 4 hours at most, sat divers need multiple days to get major help outside.
Every hear about byford dolphin incident? Not pretty to say the least
Goofy Boi I didn’t before I read you post. I searched RUclips for that incident. Very sad indeed. 😪
brave and under appreciated men.
I agree. I was a SAT diver. 😂. Many years ago. Not brave. Little Bit mad. Love a challenge.
If an aquanaut doesn't do his job, you shall feel it in your bones (increase in oil/gas prices, pollution or disruption of Internet services).
If an astronaut doesn't do his job, few care because that job has nearly zero impact in our everyday lives.
this is the most amazing job in the world, I am commercial diver, I dream one day to dive as well. very cool.
guilherme diver they fix oil pipes and this is insanely deep
guilherme diver just rember they live 16-20 years less due to gas in the joints
guilherme diver what it like being one? I'm really trying to look into underwater welding
I've seen this job related to being an astronaut but spacewalks are kind of required because if you were to create a drone for the task you would have to ship it up in addition to the crew and everything else already up there. It's just not practical as long as we are getting things into space by lighting off giant fireworks with people and material on the top.
This however seems like it would be better for everyone involved if specialized construction drones handled as much as possible. Chuck welder robot over side of boat, let it sink, keep it working non-stopped till the job is done.
If you can land a plane on the other side of the world by remote control you can remote control a robot into building and maintaining a pipeline.
lolroflroflcakes they just can’t handle the pressure pun intended
Your comparing two totally different task. Landing a drone is still done by pilots and they fly like regular planes. ROVs don’t move like humans.
Mad respect for these heroes. This is what real men are made of and they're making it look like its the most ordinary thing.
Oh my god
Imagine depressurizing the entire bathroom when your on the throne.....
The brilliant thing is for the whole 28 days they have high pitched voices because they breath a mixture of helium and oxygen
I wish I knew exactly how much they get paid. I am just curious.
A LOT!
Just googled it. almost 2000 american per day
Wow that seems about right. Very high risk job. Takes a special person.
£1400 per day, for that, you see on Utube what you do. The rub is, actually doing it, wearing a Kirby Morgan 17 on your bonce for six hours, and getting in some tight spots, with sea water half way up your chin. It's nothing like watching it on Utube,or like snokelling in Majorca. Been there, done it, got the tshirt and seen the movie, 22 years, in that time, counting all the days in "Sat" I've spent FOUR years in a chamber,over and out.
+12alocin i go snorkeling in my bathtub can I get paid too? :^)
Back in the 80s there was a bell that was disconnected from its ship, it was recovered, but the two people inside had died from hypothermia
That looks like pure torture
it's like a month of prison, with long work-details of going down into the water to weld, etc.
Aren't their voices high pitched too when they come back to the surface ?
no, it's the gas they breath under water that does that.
Metal Dog Ye, isn't it oil workers or something ?
Cloud Strife Divers?
We use helium in the breathing medium as it has no narcotic effect at depth as does nitrogen. Helium is a very light gas which allows the vocal chords in your throat to vibrate unusually fast and that causes the high-pitched voice.
Berkcam thanks, didn't want to write so much. :P (I'm also a diver, BTW)
holy crap they better make a boatload of money.
about $1400 a day
which seems like a lot until you realize they are the top 1% of divers, been in the industry for 10-20+ years, paid for school and gear, and only work a couple jobs a year if they are lucky
LtRiot don’t most of these guys get their starts as underwater welders and doing in water ship repair? Those guys make pretty good money.
I honestly have no idea why nasa chose test pilots for the space program and not people who worked underwater.
Mr ballen def got his research here
He was a Seal, he knows how to dive smartass
I wonder what they do when one of them farts in there...
Kick shit out of him
laugh
How do they do their morning and evening masturbation routines in such confined space?
QuickSilver8Xf in front of each other for max horniness
Quicksilver. Just normal grab it and go for it not that I ever did ha ha
Sit in a circle and have a race
if you can't beat off or take a dump in front of another dude, this is not the job for you.
"astronaut in the ocean starts playing"
God forbid one of them have bad gas considering the tightness of those quarters
mmmm...nope!
The bends.. yeah. No. If you suddenly decompress from that depth your body will literally burst open. If you're curious just google "explosive decompression" and have a look at the images. NSFW obviously...
If they have a medical emergency they're dead. That's a terrifying thought.
Depends on the emergency tbh, they can decompress in 24+ hours so it’s somewhat possible to survive. One guy had his literal intestines sucked out of his asshole when the toiled he was sitting on was flushed too early. A crewmate had to shove them back and he somehow survived.
@ 500 ft they are at 15 atmospheres, every 30 ft in salt water is another unit of pressure equivalent to the 1 atmosphere you are under while standing on the surface of earth.
Once I got comfortable with all the boys I would eat a tonne of cabbage and jalapenos and drink like 10 litres of beer before I got in the little submarine thing with them. Then when the gas expands I would treat them all to some of the funniest noises they've heard
goobs but they have to breath that air for a while
This guy gets it.
beware the dreaded sea pickle!
People think this job is cool but it literally shortens your life by 15-25 years because of the pressure and artificial gases harming you...
That's a myth. It will weaken your bones though.
How long do you have to live? Exactly,nobody knows.
Jayme Ralston crap Jayme I was a mixed gas and sat diver for many years now 71 still going strong only health issue is hearing loss
Care to back any of that up?
What a load of bullshit... "artificial gases" ??
Come on, get a grip.
And if the chamber rapidly decompresses, you literally explode. No thanks! Give these men a metal!
THE PRESSURE IS IMMENSE, "all the cool kids do druggsss" occupants: "all the COOL kids you say??!!?"
Those men are unsung hero’s!
Thanks 😂
I've read if you sneezed and farted at same time it neutralizes the bends!
Their brave men the things that can go wrong would terrify me.
These dudes have got Covid isolation down pat except they can't open the door
What horrible work conditions... Even the people in the ISS get more space to move around!
Imagine someone opening the hatch while the bell is on the boat.
The hatch opens inward; you can't open it when the pressure in the chamber exceeds the outside pressure.
@@seikibrian8641 smart, if it were the opposite the guy who opened the hatch would be uppercutted to oblivion by the door blasting wide open.
I don’t care what they’re paying... no way in hell. Living quarters from hell.
Fascinating
"Mom, I want to be an astronaut."
"No, We have a space program at home"
Space program at home:
MR BALLEN got me here
Lol this the reverse of astronauts, instead of going to vacuum these divers going to high pressure field
Mr.Ballen fans anyone?
Yes sir
Very interesting, thank you for sharing 💕😘👍🏽
Still dont get this 100%. Why does saturation Divers need a weeks decompression when one scuba diver went down 300m and up in no time?
The explanation for the compression of gases in the blood was a tad hokey. But good video!
What happens if one of the sat divers have serious medical issue that require immediate treatment?
They probably die
I’d probably flip out during the first night since I wouldn’t be able to leave and take my nightly trip into town to go get something to eat
ODDLY LOOKS LIKE THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
People always go on about how Space is the most dangerous environment, but going from 1 to 0 atmospheres ain't half as dangerous as going from 1 to 30 atmospheres (@300 metres) and back again.
The only “saturation” taking place are half a dozen burley dudes farting in a hermetically sealed tubes for weeks on end.