I'm currently inshore gaining experience. Hopefully offshore opportunities come my way in future. I've never had a dive in shore with vis this good I don't think lol
Yep. Waist deep in drilling mud with zero viz. Trying to put a spool piece in with zero viz. What fun. But we did it . Only those who have been there know.
This is one of the most insane jobs I've ever had the pleasure of viewing. Dangerous conditions, hard work, weeks at a time pressurized in a capsule. Paid awesome wages with a good part of the year off work. Huge respect to Sat Divers.
@@publicalias8172 so I take you’re just not very educated then, that’s one of the highest mortality rates of any career in the world. In literally no world are those “rookie numbers”
Thanks dudes, you honestly keep a huge chunk of human civilization running and a lot of people don't really even know what you do. Incredibly meaningful and badass work.
The first thing I thought of watching this and I don't think they can record either unless they use one of that deep-sea drones idk the actual name for it
very few species of large fish live in deep waters. once you get passed a certain depth there is almost no life, mostly small micro-organisms and crustaceans. no food down there for big fish
@@protonjones54 hahahahaha, i do agree tho. no matter how much i know scientifically a great white isnt going to chomp me at 500feet, nothing is getting me in pitch black water with 0 visibility. you are basically in a fucking void and you have no sensation because you have your whole body covered in a suit. id rather be floating around the int space station because atleast then there is no animals and you can see lmao.
I love getting likes on my comment for videos like this, because I usually watch it all over again. Such a sweet edit and tune. Cheers man, good video. Keep enjoying life. Hope it gets a million views and you get a nice bonus for your work👍🏼.
I work as installation designer for this very items. Nice to see that shroud going up. You guys are 1st on my mind when designing, your work conditions are as complex as can be. Good luck!
I was thinking of doing this saturation diving when my scuba partner took it up. I really didn't want to live in pipe then live in another pipe for 30 days just to survive the surface! I went back to teaching, while in school library I see book titled "Saturation Diving in Baltic Sea". I pulled book from shelf an looked at cover paper, there was the familiar smile of my dive partner, Kenny. When he was home, I told him about seeing his picture in library book. He laughed, said the photographer spent entire 2+ month tour underwater an decompression chamber just to get that picture! Kenny started piloting deep dive submarines!
Kenny dove submersible until his joints got to hurting him so bad! But before subs, he came home to visit sick mom in hospital. While in Portland his oil platform had a gas blow out an Kenny was one of very limited survivors! Then he came down with the same sickness that killed an bankrupt mother! So in order to protect his new beautiful wife an baby girl, he Put a Bullet in his head! Bravest an selfless man I ever know!
I will stick to being a Dive master and going 40 meters down max...lol. Like the sunshine at the end of the day. Pressure is hard on a body. The fish are cool that deep...:-)
Ethan: That was a neat vid but was confusing because of the light. This wasn't one of those dives that the boys (or u did @ 700ft) were u have to stay in a capsule for a month like on a ship? Was this rather shallow with all the mixed gases, then a bell and on land during the evening?? Cheers
@@mongo6043 this is a compilation of several location from the look of it. Hard to say what depth. Probably a couple hundred feet , but no ROV footage to tell for sure. It is saturation diving though the guys are doing 3 man bell runs with 2 in the water and a bellman handling the hoses. They would be living in a saturation on deck of the boat they are working from. You can tell by the divers not exhaling any bubbles. They are using reclaim hats which collects exhaled gas scrubs it so it can be used again.
I did some sats and a lot of bell bounch and was fortunate enough to work in Brunei in the South China Sea. The water was warm and clear absolutely beautiful water to work in. Now I'm 72 and still cherish those dives!
To all your underwater welders you guys are all crazy awesome and nuts at the same time. I give you guys a lot of respect. I was in local 85 international brotherhood a Boilermakers
@@TheJimyyy Especially the grey nurse, they're a beautiful and very placid shark. I've been eye to eye with them and sat on the bottom with more than 30 just cruising around me.
Absolutely awesome video sir. You have balls of steel doing that job. I'm only an open water diver, but saturation diving has long fascinated me. What kind of certification do you need to go through to do this?
You need to do your offshore commercial air diver ticket first. Then after a load of logged, offshore dives at various depths, you can then do your closed bell saturation course.
I worker for Taylor Diving & Salvage as a Saturation Diver specializing in Hyperbaric Welding (welding pipeline on the ocean floor). On my most memorable job I worked with a team of 7 hyperbaric welders and 3 support saturation divers on the Norske Hydro dive to a world record 1,065 fsw. We lived and work in a pressure of 450 psi at depth. It was during the "cold war" with the Soviet Union and Europe needed the oil from Norway's new offshore oil field. The problem was getting the oil to the beach. The pipeline had to be laid through the Norwegian Trench which was over 1,000 fsw. If they couldn't get the oil to the beach, Europe would become reliant on Soviet Union Oil. We had to prove we could repair the pipeline at that depth should it ever get damaged. One of our team (David Hoover) lost his life on this job. I loved working as a diver, however I am now 71 years old now and have had 12 major back surgeries and a quadruple bypass. So, you have to weigh the good with the bad. If I had the chance, would I do it again...Absolutely!
What an amazing experience. Yes I know of Taylor Diving. Most of my work is with McDermott. Thanks for taking the time to share it. Few understand what it takes to to do the job and fewer are any good at it. All the best.
What a great video. You guys are amazing. Not only are you excellent technically, you also do it at depth. You have far bigger balls than me! You are worth every cent of what I hope is big pay! Best wishes, and stay safe down there.
That's one hell of a office view.......You guys have huge balls for doing this job.....I thought hanging out the side of a building 650 ft in the air was crazy.......👍🏻👍🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
saturation diving looks like awesome work, but dont be fooled, most of time its in dense conditions you cant see 5 feet, and has the potential to be very very dangerous. read up on the byford dolphin bell incident and then evaluate whether or not you want to proceed. big balls these dudes, great vid Steve!
If you want a true read I'd highly suggest reading up on the Ivy Bells missions ran by the USN during the Cold War in the Sea of Okthost. Man those boys were crazy but the Navy was even crazier for sending the old boats they did.
I got certified for recreational diving in the Gulf of Mexico. I was the last student off the boat when we went out for the open water part. By the time I got to depth, the water was so turbid I had to nearly touch my mask to see my hand.
@@PierceyeG I did my first certification dives at kailua kona. Was actually one of the best dives I've ever done, a huge bait ball of fish came along and actually surrounded us... there were 3 of us diving and the bait ball surrounded us on all sides and from above, when we seperated from eachother a bit, the bait ball started swimming inbetween us as well almost creating seperate bubble rooms in the bait ball... In the excitement it was hard to pay attention to where we were, and when we came up to the surface we were at a pier and there was a guy with a pole fishing in the water looking down on us. He was grumbling that we scared all his fish lmao XD If only he knew what we just saw lol
Much more risky and plucky craft than of that Astronauts. Truly man's job, and oh.. believe me, quite well paid as well - Little number of people knows and even less appraises it properly. The best engineers and the most bad ass people ever .. love you !!!!
I'm sitting here at 50 years old, marveling at the things that my mind (or lack thereof) allowed me to do when I was in my 20's. I'm an open water certified diver who has also crawled through countless miles of caves, several of them previoisly unmapped, and just watching these guys on RU-vid made my chest tighten with a feeling akin to claustrophobia. I am grateful that there are folks who are daring enough to take one jobs such as this one so that I can benefit from the infrastructure, but with the exception of one user in the comment section of this video, I've never heard of a sat diver older than I am. Maybe I would've done it if I'd had the opportunity when I was more oblivious to the risks. It also blows my mind that these daredevils are on average, according to what I was able to find, compensated at about 25 percent of what I'm paid to sit behind a desk, get on an airplane once in awhile and have to brave only the occasional traffic jam. Mad respect.
@@ColinMor-fj3qc No. I gross a little under half of that. Are you saying that the average yearly income of a saturation diver is $250k/year? Because that's not what saturation divers (including the ones in this video) report. They report an average of $55k/year, with a higher end of $110k, and perhaps one or two extreme outliers. Admittedly, they work sometimes 150 days straight and then get large slices of time off, but I've seen no source that leads me to believe that the mainstream sat diver, if you could even call any sat diver mainstream, earns even $100k/year. So not at all inclined to know where your guess came from that I'm paid a cool million per year. I do maintain my original position that they are far more entitled to my $470k/year than I am, based on risk, specialization and likelihood that none of them will work this job to normal retirement age.
@@migbham1 depends upon where the sat diver works and how exp plus what skills. offshore oil rigs those sat divers earn a lot more and are more exp but also work a longer contract than say a sat diver that would repair an undersea telecommunications or power cable . some sat divers can make half a mill a year for far flung contracts
Man this looks so fun! I know it's a extremely difficult and dangerous job but I want to do this one day. I want to go to school to learn how to weld and how to dive. Being a under water welder looks so damn fun!
be prepared to flunk out. you have to go through a lot of training to go the depths to get to the point of going into the diving bell and perhaps you may only be good up feeding the fishes in an aquarium.
As a diver myself i gotta take my hat off for these guys, it takes balls of steel to dive at these depths let alone work in there and stay for days, week and months.
I'm a marine biologist, and this type of diving didnt appeal much to me, but I took my first step into commercial diving 2 days ago! I will be certified to work up to 30m at first. Next Tuesday we will dive in the port with 0 visibility and they will teach us how to weld and use all the tools. I CANT WAIT :D
Just kind of curious how it went, how it's going, whether you're still alive and all of that stuff. Your excitement is quite apparent in this and a few other comments, and I'd love to know that you made it and found the career to be all that you'd hoped.
@@danielfreitas5772 hope you've looked into long term and occupational risks. It's not at all like scuba diving, and there's nothing badass about dying for an international oil conglomerate.
What depth are we looking at here? After seeing the Delta P videos, scares the absolute crap out of me , not to mention every other hazard it brings. Hats off to all in this profession, much respect.
