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! !
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.
ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NeVwqfFSggA.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
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.
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 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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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?
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
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.
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.
@@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.
£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.
@ 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.
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...
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
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.
I'd be too scared to be in that chamber, what if someone opened a decompression valve or somethine on accident, but I am sure they have a ton on safety precautions, but imaging someone opening the door and your eyeballs pop out of your face...
ThisGuyCJ true...so many what ifs. After watching the Byford Dolphin accident, made me think...well at least the men died instantly without feeling pain. RIP to them and hope their loved ones pain has eased some what.
@@merlz00 It took 26 years before our (norwegian) government offered the families of the deceased british divers the same compensation the norwegian divers got. It's a shame. They blamed the accident on the british guy who allegedly opened the clamp on the diving bell too early, when they finally concluded that there was a failure with the actual clamp.
Wow, that's pretty nutty. It makes perfect sense how and why they handle that situation, but I didn't know that was a job. That's pretty cool. I wouldn't want to do that work, but still.
I'm in school for this new career path but I don't know if I want to the saturation part of the diving job. I'd rather work in a water tower or somewhere near the sea shore.
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.
It’s crazy that going down is easy. It’s the coming up part that’s challenging. I can’t imagine how we ended up correcting this issue. There must’ve been tons of trial and error, but that’s like everything to an extent.
Apparently they get paid really well, jobs not worth it imo. Terribly crazy ass job. But then again, driving at 80mph on the highway is probably just as dangerous or whatever.
