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  • @1paris1942
    @1paris1942 19 годин тому +1061

    An old friend of mine's younger brother does this. He was a deep sea diver for the Navy, and then went into this line of work. It's a VERY specialized skill set. As of a little over ten years ago (last time he told me about it) his brother was making a little over $300k per year. And this isn't a full time job, as described. He's actually on station between 4 and 6 months a year.

    • @DrunkGeko
      @DrunkGeko 18 годин тому +143

      4 to 6 months of this a year is still A LOT. It's basically prison for about half of your life. No amount of money is worth half my life tbh

    • @ZockerAxel
      @ZockerAxel 18 годин тому +183

      @@DrunkGeko yeah except you get paid a shit ton for it and it's voluntary.

    • @8stormy5
      @8stormy5 18 годин тому +163

      And just to add, that money's not for nothing. Aside from the intense upfront training needed to do these kinds of jobs, it's hell on your body and mind and it requires your work/life balance to be 100% work for half of the year. The pay, while high, is completely fair for those kinds of sacrifices.

    • @ShaggyRogers1
      @ShaggyRogers1 18 годин тому +104

      @@8stormy5 There is a reason why a lot of saturation divers are prior Navy divers. They are already used to the work conditions, except they now get paid super well and have even more freedom while in "work" mode. It isn't like the companies employing sat divers don't want to keep their divers happy and entertained during their pressure stints.
      One thing to keep in mind is that these divers don't actually have to be working full speed all the time. They are kept on standby, even if they aren't needed that moment. It is a lot easier to just send the team on standby in than it is to assemble them and prep the capsules when their skills are needed.

    • @vdd1001
      @vdd1001 18 годин тому +17

      ​@@DrunkGeko you get paid a ton of money for the other half of your life tho. I'm sure it's incredibly demanding mentally and physically so kudos to anyone who does this

  • @hotpocketdeath
    @hotpocketdeath 18 годин тому +887

    Mistake @4:52. Saturation dive gas contains less oxygen, not more. It's because of PPO (Partial Pressure of Oxygen). If PPO is too high, it can result in oxygen toxicity., Which is really bad. So to lower the PPO, you reduce the percentage of oxygen in the air you're breathing. You may see saturation dive gasses as low as 3.5% oxygen, or even lower. While that percentage is bad if you breath it at sea level, under those pressures, it's perfectly fine.

    • @RomanKarpenko-f6n
      @RomanKarpenko-f6n 17 годин тому +6

      Oh, really. Good point.

    • @Yotanido
      @Yotanido 17 годин тому +50

      Makes sense. If you increase the pressure like this and you breathe the same air mixture, then you would get significantly more oxygen molecules for the same volume of air.
      I'm assuming the mixture is adjusted so you get about the same mass of oxygen you would normally?

    • @davidlosito6347
      @davidlosito6347 17 годин тому +7

      Thank you for ensuring correct information

    • @atzuras
      @atzuras 16 годин тому +10

      Also, putting more oxygen %% at that pressure would be very dangerous. Just a spark and good night.

    • @ivan-to2zy
      @ivan-to2zy 16 годин тому +30

      Just a week into 2025 and already content for the "Mistakes we made" video

  • @jessetorres8738
    @jessetorres8738 19 годин тому +1634

    Legitimate question: Has there ever been a show or film with an underwater laboratory, military base, or hotel that wasn't destroyed by the end?

    • @jellyrolls2765
      @jellyrolls2765 19 годин тому +235

      I imagine spongebob has each of those at some point

    • @y0sarian
      @y0sarian 18 годин тому +31

      Sealab?

    • @lockinhinddanger934
      @lockinhinddanger934 18 годин тому +38

      Sealab 2020/2021 it's animated though, other than that I mean it's not underwater but there's that show where they're on an aircraft carrier I think

    • @votekyle3000
      @votekyle3000 18 годин тому +64

      The rig in the Abyss survived, but only just.

    • @absurt11
      @absurt11 18 годин тому +25

      In Subnautica most Precursor Bases seem to be mostly fine, but that's a video game

  • @AaronGeo
    @AaronGeo 19 годин тому +946

    "Who lives in a pipeline under the sea?"
    "Tubetom Pipepants!"

  • @moth.monster
    @moth.monster 17 годин тому +392

    Saturation diving is a bit of a dying industry, but for good reason: more and more jobs can now be done by remote controlled robots. Which, conveniently, require the same skills to operate as someone who is already in the industry. Kind of a win for everyone, actually.

    • @halfsourlizard9319
      @halfsourlizard9319 13 годин тому

      I'm pretty sure sat divers don't see being obsoleted as any more of a win than you will when you're replaced by non-biological machines.

    • @Dorgpoop
      @Dorgpoop 11 годин тому +41

      After reading about the Byford Dolphin accident that can only be a good thing. Easily the most gruesome Wikipedia page I've ever read.

    • @AndrewBrowner
      @AndrewBrowner 10 годин тому +15

      not really.. 300k for a 4-6month stint is pretty amazing in this economy.. i guarantee they drop the joystick guys down to year round rotations and cut their pay to sub 80k

    • @wesh388
      @wesh388 6 годин тому +4

      Personally, I don't think it's worth the risk when some guy above is literally controlling the air you're breathing. You gotta have a lot of trust in the team above... ​@AndrewBrowner

    • @vaclav_fejt
      @vaclav_fejt 4 години тому +1

      @@AndrewBrownerThat's the fault of the current economic reality, not the job.

  • @superbnns
    @superbnns 17 годин тому +138

    "Brave beyond advisement" is a good resume/job description line

  • @WhiskeyDip
    @WhiskeyDip 18 годин тому +334

    In 1983, one of these chambers rapidly depressurized from 9 atmospheres to 1 atmosphere with 4 occupants inside. The Byford Dolphin diving bell accident.
    "Gross dismemberment" is all you need to know.

    • @soulsded
      @soulsded 17 годин тому +13

      I remember watching a video ab this not that long ago. I think it was veritasium or one of the other big science channels

    • @nddragoon
      @nddragoon 17 годин тому +70

      that's actually a pretty gentle euphemism. if given two words i'd describe the result as "human paste"

    • @AxeMan04x
      @AxeMan04x 17 годин тому +20

      @@soulsdedI believe it was Joe Scott. I saw the same video!

    • @gracelandtoo6240
      @gracelandtoo6240 17 годин тому +31

      Joe Scott - How to squeeze a human being through a 5-inch hole.
      Maybe it's just on Nebula due to the graphic nature, idk.

    • @GregMcGregsen
      @GregMcGregsen 17 годин тому +12

      I absolutely expected him to get to this accident at the end. But it's way too gruesome, I guess

  • @romangonzalez4949
    @romangonzalez4949 18 годин тому +577

    This might be one of the few jobs where humans SHOULD be replaced by automated robots, because that sounds like a living hell

    • @matthewslentz5481
      @matthewslentz5481 18 годин тому +71

      A very well paid living hell. Saturation divers make multiple 6 figures a year, and only work 6 months of the year.

    • @explodethebomb
      @explodethebomb 18 годин тому +44

      While not as unpleasant as this, there's not very many jobs people actually want to do. Also, this is a very high paying job, which is why people do it voluntarily

    • @C0lon0
      @C0lon0 18 годин тому +45

      Most of deep sea welding is done by robots, but there is always things that is basically impossible to make a robot do, so there is people that need to do it and they get paid very well.

    • @thomasdalton1508
      @thomasdalton1508 18 годин тому +16

      If they could, they would. It's not an easy job to design a robot to do.

    • @AlanTheBeast100
      @AlanTheBeast100 17 годин тому

      @@matthewslentz5481 And then die in their 50's ...

  • @maypat6712
    @maypat6712 13 годин тому +23

    Comment on 5:05 I've worked for a company that made those and have the diving record (Comex S.A.) the breathing helium at this pressure doesn't make you speak like that, because it's so presurise your vocal cords cant even create a understandable sound through the air of the cabin and everyone wears mic headset where your voice is sent in a computer program to be made understandable and the redistributed via everyone headset. 2 people a feet apart cant even communicate without this. (Or they write). And for everyone wondering, it's not new fun technology, it's happening since the 80's with the technology you imagine at the time

  • @kayleighlehrman9566
    @kayleighlehrman9566 18 годин тому +312

    Hell yeah, saturation diving content!!! If the Byford Dolphin incident isn't mentioned I'm going to riot until Sam lets me be his team partner on the next season of Jet Lag.
    Edit: Sam, get ready for your next partner for Jet Lag!!!

    • @DeathNight77
      @DeathNight77 18 годин тому +2

      😢

    • @hoej
      @hoej 15 годин тому +10

      Ah yes, the incident where people became biology because of a small hole.

    • @georginabensley9453
      @georginabensley9453 15 годин тому +12

      I mean, it's tangentially referenced in the bit where everyone becomes smeared pixels, but more than that is too depressing for this channel

    • @alfred7846
      @alfred7846 15 годин тому +13

      @@hoej That feels more physics than biology to be honest

    • @Acidlib
      @Acidlib 15 годин тому

      Aw, nice try, but he already promised the spot to me, maybe next season!

  • @petrakat
    @petrakat 9 годин тому +5

    For those curious, the character on the man's arm at 7:02 is 稳 (traditional chinese 穩) wen3 which means "stable, firm, solid, steady, settled." Appropriate for someone living in The Horrible Tube

  • @fintomoon
    @fintomoon 16 годин тому +33

    a small correction: when you go deeper than 60 meters, the risk of oxygen poisoning becomes too great even when breathing normal air (21% oxygen), so helix that is used there usually contains less oxygen than normal air does. just a few numbers: if you enrich air to 32% of oxygen, your maximum operating depth (mod) becomes 34 meters, if ox=40 (maximum used in recreational diving) than mod is only 25 meters. if you want to reach 100 meters, you wold need to reduce the portion of oxygen of just 12.5%

    • @dannydaw59
      @dannydaw59 8 годин тому

      Why is Helium used? I've read throughout the years that helium is running out.

    • @lucasoparowski6911
      @lucasoparowski6911 7 годин тому +5

      @@dannydaw59 Helium doesn't lead to narcosis like nitrogen does. Also once you get deep enough the density of the air becomes a factor requiring considering so you can actually breath. He is naturally much lighter than N so it helps. Recreationally to save money some N is cut in. Many calculators online for what your breathing mix is. If you'd like to know more look into tec diving and there's several good videos on youtube about it.
      Also the cost of He is why basically everyone doing very deep tec diving uses 10-30k rebreathers.(also the lowering of decompression obligation)

    • @fintomoon
      @fintomoon 7 годин тому +1

      @@dannydaw59 it actually kinda is running out in large deposits, but it is also present in the atmosphere and can be extracted from it. it's also not like divers are the largest consumer of helium. and, as described in a comment above, it is harmless to people, cheap (by inert gas standards) and light

    • @dannydaw59
      @dannydaw59 3 години тому

      @fintomoon So the adults were wrong that "helium will harm you if you breathe too much in" were wrong when I was a kid. Ok, thanks for the explanation.

    • @fintomoon
      @fintomoon 2 години тому +1

      @@dannydaw59 they were actually somewhat right, as when you breathe helium from a balloon, there is no oxygen there. that combines with the fact that carbon dioxide gets removed from your system, which prevents brain from detecting any issues. it's not like bad bad, but can theoretically make you unconscious

  • @KoalaPlus
    @KoalaPlus 18 годин тому +52

    Everyone keeps saying Subnautica, but real OGs know it's actually just SOMA IRL

    • @MrMediator24
      @MrMediator24 18 годин тому +5

      But no virtual paradise in the end

    • @Malandrin
      @Malandrin 18 годин тому +6

      havent played SOMA in a long time, maybe I should start from the begining again and play the whole game once more 😍😍

  • @Zoey--
    @Zoey-- 16 годин тому +6

    Only $1400 a day for living in a prison, monitored 24/7 with no contact outside those locked in with you, beyond difficult work conditions, constant risk of death and what is akin to 8 day physical torture just to leave. You know what I think they need more pay.

  • @Benson_aka_devils_advocate_88
    @Benson_aka_devils_advocate_88 17 годин тому +57

    At 4:44 I didn't expect to see candles on a birthday cake when the air you're breathing is being recirculated

    • @danielduncan6806
      @danielduncan6806 17 годин тому +22

      Not that they are the same, but there are these special candles you can burn that do actually make oxygen when burned, and they are commonly called candles, or oxygen candle. I would be surprised if they didn't have any down there, for just in case they become disconnected from the mother ship.

    • @HenryLoenwind
      @HenryLoenwind 12 годин тому

      It may sound funny, but as the system can take oxygen from the surrounding air, burning candles inside only means you need to crank it up a little bit. Just like you need to crank the AC up if you burn candles inside in July. The extra wear and tear and energy consumption is so minimal, it doesn't matter. Unless you go full Sam and fill the room with tealights, that is.

    • @MrHack4never
      @MrHack4never 9 годин тому +1

      I was kinda surprised that the cake looks that stable, considering the pressure it's in, but it could have been locally made to still be fluffy in an environment with pressure that high

    • @xiphosura413
      @xiphosura413 4 години тому

      my favourite part is the utter failure to light it because the match is immediately snuffed by the atmosphere in there

  • @mattburland8105
    @mattburland8105 18 годин тому +48

    Before anybody signs up for an exciting, and lucrative, career as a saturation diver, be sure to look up the Byford Dolphin incident first.

    • @justicefool3942
      @justicefool3942 18 годин тому +21

      Safety regulations have gotten much better since then. That said, there are still plenty of other ways deep sea diving can kill you.

    • @Spencer-wc6ew
      @Spencer-wc6ew 17 годин тому

      ​@@justicefool3942but are those regulations followed and enforced?
      And does violating them save more money than the fine?

    • @jorenvanderark3567
      @jorenvanderark3567 14 годин тому +21

      ​@Spencer-wc6ew
      The fact that everyone brings up an accident from 40 years ago rather than anything that happened in this millennium indicates that they are followed.

    • @Chris-pt6hh
      @Chris-pt6hh 13 годин тому +2

      I'd wager you have a higher chance of injury or death just driving down the road.

    • @zhadoomzx
      @zhadoomzx 11 годин тому +1

      @@Chris-pt6hh I wager you would loose that wager.
      For many people, just being imprisoned for a week+ in a small chamber you cannot leave under any circumstance (including medical emergency) would already cause severe psychological effects like claustrophobia, paranoia or worse. A panick attack at that depth is likely 100 times more likely and 100 times more fatal than in a car.

  • @fignons_missing_8sec4
    @fignons_missing_8sec4 17 годин тому +42

    4:55 Heliox has less oxygen then standard air not more. High pressures of oxygen in the body can give you oxygen toxicity leading to seizures and death. At deep depths you have to breath a gas (either heliox (Oxygen and Helium), trimix (oxygen, Helium and some nitrogen) or throwing some hydrogen in their if you really want to get deep and spicy) that has less oxygen than air not more.

    • @hockeyguy820
      @hockeyguy820 13 годин тому +2

      Conversely, the Apollo astronauts were fine with pure oxygen at 5 psi (one third atmosphere).

  • @Me1le
    @Me1le 18 годин тому +115

    For the rest of the world: 1 Bar or Atmosphere ≈ 15 PSI
    The divers used in the example are at about 22 times atmospheric pressure.

    • @GeorgeWashingtonLaserMusket
      @GeorgeWashingtonLaserMusket 18 годин тому +3

      Bar? How can gas be a bar? PSI makes infinitely more sense.

    • @zlodevil426
      @zlodevil426 18 годин тому +40

      @@GeorgeWashingtonLaserMusket Americans grow up challenge (difficulty: very hard)

    • @person8064
      @person8064 18 годин тому +1

      ​@@GeorgeWashingtonLaserMusket that moment when
      When words have more than one definition

    • @gustavselin1197
      @gustavselin1197 18 годин тому +16

      @@GeorgeWashingtonLaserMusket The bar is a metric unit of pressure defined as 100,000 Pa (100 kPa). The pascal (symbol: Pa) is the unit of pressure in the International System of Units (SI). It is also used to quantify internal pressure, stress, and ultimate tensile strength. The unit, named after Blaise Pascal, is an SI coherent derived unit defined as one newton per square metre (N/m2) A pressure of 1 bar is slightly less than the current average atmospheric pressure on Earth at sea level (approximately 1.013 bar).
      I.e. 1 bar = 100 000 newtons per square metre and 1 newton is equal to about 0,102 kg.

    • @nddragoon
      @nddragoon 17 годин тому +4

      @@gustavselin1197 important nitpick: 1 newton is that many kilograms of **force** ie the amount of force the weight of such a mass would exert at 1g. it's not a unit of mass

  • @colbypupgaming1962
    @colbypupgaming1962 18 годин тому +17

    You do NOT want to hasten the decompression process. A hasty decompression has very unpleasant results.

  • @eggsontoast
    @eggsontoast 7 годин тому +2

    I have a friend who's seriously thinking of doing this. We're a bit concerned given how dangerous it is and how he is emotionally. But he really wants to do it. His plan is to saturation dive for several years, collect the big salary, and not have to work again, since he hates work. Glad to be given some more information on it

  • @Topheragger
    @Topheragger 19 годин тому +112

    That says fourteen thousand rupees 2:27

    • @charliek557
      @charliek557 18 годин тому +33

      Another source says this:" During SAT swimming, you’ll receive an everyday rate and an hourly bonus. Your on-deck day cost, for example, may well be $650 each day, but your SAT bonus is hourly. For example, $33.00 per day per hour x 24hr is $792 plus your rate of $650 per day. That equates to around 1,400 dollars daily"

    • @columbus8myhw
      @columbus8myhw 18 годин тому

      Yes but you add on the pay you get for simply being in the chamber for 24 hours a day. Or 18? Not sure if the time spent diving counts.

    • @AndrewBrowner
      @AndrewBrowner 9 годин тому +1

      if you read one line further youd see thats a payrate for just being on the rig and theres an hourly rate ontop of that for when youre under compression... dont jump to conclusions so quick when youre up against a team of people far smarter than you

  • @MrBlueBurd0451
    @MrBlueBurd0451 18 годин тому +109

    And if any of the valves on the pressurized people cans is ever opened accidentally you die instantly. From being pushed through a tiny hole. Remember, Delta-P is not your friend. DON'T look up what Delta-P can do to the human body.

    • @nefarious_kitty
      @nefarious_kitty 18 годин тому +25

      And definitely don't look up Byford Dolphin

    • @joewell6435
      @joewell6435 18 годин тому

      ​@@nefarious_kittyit's too late, I'm already cursed with the knowledge of this incident, I at least haven't seen the photos though

    • @thomasdalton1508
      @thomasdalton1508 18 годин тому +9

      I would hope they have redundancy, so a single valve couldn't do that. There should a minimum of two failures before you have a catastrophic outcome. And it would need to be a very large valve before being pushed through it becomes a problem - with 333psi on one side and 15psi on the other, if the valve is a square inch then the force is 318 lbs. You could easy resist that. I expect they mostly use valves smaller than a square inch.

    • @MrUhlus
      @MrUhlus 17 годин тому +3

      the valves might be small but the doors are bigger
      From Wikipedia about the byford dolphin incident
      Investigation by forensic pathologists determined that Hellevik, being exposed to the highest pressure gradient and in the process of moving to secure the inner door, was forced through the crescent-shaped opening measuring 60 centimetres (24 in) long created by the jammed interior trunk door. With the escaping air and pressure, gross dismemberment ensued; it included bisection of his thoracoabdominal cavity, which resulted in fragmentation of his body, followed by expulsion of all of the internal organs of his chest and abdomen, except the trachea and a section of small intestine, and of the thoracic spine. These were projected some distance from the bell, with one section being found 10 metres (30 ft) vertically above the exterior pressure door.

    • @thomasdalton1508
      @thomasdalton1508 17 годин тому +5

      @MrUhlus Yes, doors are big enough to be dangerous. That's why modern doors are designed so they can't be opened without equalising the pressure first. You have to use small valves to equalise the pressure and then you can open the big doors.

  • @cyberia1998
    @cyberia1998 18 годин тому +20

    1:16 no way I love that album

    • @servo29
      @servo29 17 годин тому +4

      Omg I can't believe they named a disease after a Radiohead album

    • @szellemarcell
      @szellemarcell 15 годин тому +1

      on god

  • @baudsp
    @baudsp 15 годин тому +18

    My brother did a stint on a ship where saturation divers were working. They had their own pressurised life raft, connected directly to their habitat

  • @italiana626sc
    @italiana626sc 13 годин тому +6

    Hey Sam and company - loved the video and really loved the music behind it. What artist/band and song? They deserve a credit.

    • @87advil
      @87advil 8 годин тому +1

      Hope someone answers, I really liked it too

  • @nathanielsottung
    @nathanielsottung 19 годин тому +51

    4:54 - Some gas mixtures can have less percentage oxygen than normal air.

    • @nathanielsottung
      @nathanielsottung 18 годин тому +7

      There are a few different gas mixtures that can be used and Nitrox, Trimix, and Heliox all have different ratios for different depths. As a general rule the partial pressure of oxygen cannot exceed 1.6atm or else you get oxygen toxicity. Heliox can 90/10 can be used which is approximately 90% Helium and 10% oxygen. You do need to have some added nitrogen in the gas or else you can get high-pressure nervous syndrome so you often can't remove nitrogen entirely.
      Additionally this means that heliox mixtures at normal atmospheric pressure would kill you as anything less than ~19% oxygen is unsafe or deadly. (OSHA limit is 19.5% oxygen at 1ATM)

    • @nefarious_kitty
      @nefarious_kitty 18 годин тому +6

      At saturation diving depths, the literal subject of this video, the mixtures will almost always have less O2 than normal air.

    • @mikea5745
      @mikea5745 18 годин тому +1

      @@nathanielsottung Nitrogen is only needed when bounce diving. It's not used in saturation diving because HPNS doesn't present during a slow compression
      A PPO2 of 1.4 is considered the safe limit during a dive, with some talk of lowering it to 1.2. A PPO2 of 1.6 is generally only considered safe during decompression

    • @thomasdalton1508
      @thomasdalton1508 18 годин тому +2

      @@nathanielsottung 19% oxygen is absolutely fine. You can go down to about 16% safely without acclimatising (as long as you aren't exerting yourself too much). If you acclimatise, you can go over lower - at the 8000m threshold for the "death zone" in mountain climbing, the partial pressure of oxygen is about 7.5% of an atmosphere, so anything more than that is acclimatisable. The reason for the 19.5% threshold has more to do with that being a reasonable margin of error than it being a safe limit. There is usually no good reason for the oxygen level to drop that low, so if it has something has gone wrong and an alarm should go off. The same percentage is used regardless of altitude, so it clearly isn't a safety threshold. If 19.5% at sea level were dangerous, normal air at 2000 feet would be dangerous. Obviously, people can go above 2000 feet without any problems at all.

    • @nathanielsottung
      @nathanielsottung 17 годин тому

      ​@@thomasdalton1508 I think the point still stands. A saturation diver using a 90/10 Heliox mixture would not be able to breathe those gases at normal pressures due to insufficient oxygen. On the other hand, an 80/20 Heliox mixture is safe to breathe at normal atmospheric pressure (1 atm) with a partial pressure of oxygen (PO2) at 0.2 atm. However, at a depth of 8 atmospheres (70 meters), the oxygen partial pressure in 80/20 would reach 1.6 atm, which is the upper limit for oxygen toxicity. This makes 80/20 unsafe beyond that depth.
      The video mentions saturation diving at 333 PSI (22.65 atmospheres). Using an 80/20 Heliox mixture at this depth would result in an oxygen partial pressure of 4.5 atm, far exceeding safe levels for oxygen toxicity. Similarly, a 90/10 Heliox mixture at this depth would produce an oxygen partial pressure of 2.27 atm, which is also dangerously high.
      The ideal gas mixture for saturation diving at this depth is 94/6 (94% helium and 6% oxygen). At 22.65 atmospheres, this provides an oxygen partial pressure of 1.36 atm, which is safely below the oxygen toxicity threshold of 1.4 atm. Additionally, the helium partial pressure would be 21.3 atm.
      It’s worth noting that the minimum depth for using a 94/6 mixture is 16.67 meters (55 feet), where the ambient pressure is 2.67 atmospheres. At shallower depths, the oxygen partial pressure would fall below the minimum safe level for breathing
      80/20 Heliox: Safe up to 8 atmospheres (70 meters) but becomes toxic beyond this depth.
      90/10 Heliox: Usable starting at ~10 meters (2 atmospheres) but unsafe at 22.65 atmospheres due to oxygen toxicity.
      94/6 Heliox: Ideal for depths between 16.67 meters (2.67 atmospheres) and 333 PSI (22.65 atmospheres), providing safe oxygen levels for saturation diving.

  • @Szergej33
    @Szergej33 17 годин тому +8

    4:58 Heliox for deep dives has less oxygen, not more. At high partial pressures (percentage of Oxygen * the pressure), Oxygen is toxic and will kill you without having to come to the surface. So to go deep, you need to reduce both the concentration of Nitrogen AND the concentration of Oxygen. Otherwise it would be simple enough to just breathe pure Oxygen to get away from Nitrogen narcosis, without bothering with Helium at all.
    As Oxygen is metabolised in your body, your body doesn't care what % of the gas you breathe is O2, all it cares is that there are enough O2 molecules. So even if the air you breathe is 10% Oxygen, at 5 Atm pressure it will be roughly equivalent to breathing 100% Oxygen at sea level, as far as your body is concerned (other pressure and gas related stuff ignorted)

  • @cidfrota8500
    @cidfrota8500 19 годин тому +81

    okay, so that's literally Subnautica

    • @mikea5745
      @mikea5745 18 годин тому +3

      Much less scary when you put it that way

    • @Jakalope_Circles
      @Jakalope_Circles 17 годин тому +16

      Not really because in Subnautica you can shoot up from literal hell all the way up to the surface with zero complications

    • @TB1611
      @TB1611 16 годин тому +3

      ​@@mikea5745 LESS scary? have you played Subnautica??

    • @dongiovanni4331
      @dongiovanni4331 15 годин тому +1

      ​@TB1611 have you ever looked into the Byford Dolphin incident? Nope. NopeNopeNope

    • @uncreative_name140
      @uncreative_name140 14 годин тому

      Yeah I’m beating subnautica and I was thinking

  • @joshuacarre06
    @joshuacarre06 19 годин тому +34

    Today I discovered I want to live under some tubes under an ocean

    • @Zericef
      @Zericef 18 годин тому +1

      Google Byford Dolphin incident 💀

    • @cloudkitt
      @cloudkitt 17 годин тому +2

      in an octopus' garden?

    • @joshuacarre06
      @joshuacarre06 16 годин тому +2

      @Zericef phew I was worried it was gonna be smth similar to another dolphin incident but it not phew

  • @arktiktree9097
    @arktiktree9097 19 годин тому +14

    Insert obligatory Byford Dolphin incident mention and why you probably don't want this job

    • @thesuperpunmaster6369
      @thesuperpunmaster6369 13 годин тому +5

      Hey, if you die in a catastrophic accident, at least it'll get talked about by a bunch of nerds on the internet

  • @carl_lenn
    @carl_lenn 18 годин тому +6

    That job sounds horrifying. Its disgusting. My heart goes out to the people that do this

  • @lemonz1769
    @lemonz1769 19 годин тому +9

    The work for 6 straight hours would kill me before any decompression sickness.

    • @davidthompson5589
      @davidthompson5589 14 годин тому +3

      typically, you get a break (possibly with some food) in the bell after 3 hours and change who is the main one doing the work on the bell run vs in the bell

  • @kingawsume
    @kingawsume 11 годин тому +2

    Satdiving is also responsible for mulitple cases of turning people into chemistry. Also for one of the very few cases of spaghettification where you could observe the results.

  • @JouvaMoufette
    @JouvaMoufette 19 годин тому +19

    🎶 If you're lookin for me, you'd better check under the sea. Cause that is where you'll find me! Underneath the Sealab, underneath the water. Sealab, at the bottom of the sea.

  • @Ryu-hx5yy
    @Ryu-hx5yy 15 годин тому +2

    Im so glad saturation diving is getting less and less common, less risks and people dont need to go though that much I think

  • @arcaneminded
    @arcaneminded 10 годин тому +2

    Probably the first someone has talked about this without mentioning the byford dolphin disaster.

  • @NithinJune
    @NithinJune 16 годин тому +15

    2:25 The page on screen _literally_ says $300 a day = 14,000 rupees not $1,400

    • @deathrawkboy
      @deathrawkboy 12 годин тому +4

      The article is also from 2010.

    • @MaskMcGee
      @MaskMcGee 11 годин тому +5

      And it literally says "You also get $40 every hour you are in the chamber" = $960 a day on top of the $600 a day as a Sat diver, not $300 a day "as an air diver"

    • @AndrewBrowner
      @AndrewBrowner 9 годин тому +2

      @@MaskMcGee people stop on the very word they think theyve caught someone in a mistake and run for the comments... instead of doing the tiniest due diligence and reading the rest of the paragraph

    • @Splicer-lb5xb
      @Splicer-lb5xb 7 годин тому

      That's still *way* lower than $1400​@@MaskMcGee a day.

  • @AlexeiZagaiciuc
    @AlexeiZagaiciuc 17 годин тому +6

    The only HAI episode where the jokes really are subpar.

  • @max5183
    @max5183 18 годин тому +2

    I'll be honest. I could never do that. I can do hard and demanding work, i can work in another country for 4 weeks not seeing friends or family. But being locked into something smaller than a submarine with a higher risk of dying, no chance. Might be the titanic sub recently, but no money could get me to do that job.

  • @mitwhitgaming7722
    @mitwhitgaming7722 17 годин тому +3

    Reminds me of Michael Crichton's Sphere.

  • @amnplays3211
    @amnplays3211 19 годин тому +2

    Love the art used in the video.

  • @dm9837
    @dm9837 15 годин тому +2

    $1,400 a day isn't enough to get me on the boat, let alone in the water. That's severely underpaid for the risk and time spent on location.

  • @prettypic444
    @prettypic444 15 годин тому +11

    Okay, but that doesn’t explain the constant PA announcements saying they’ll never amount to anything and no one will ever love them

  • @someasiandude4797
    @someasiandude4797 15 годин тому +1

    my god how has nobody made a horror game based entirely around this yet. It would get blackout on the bingo card of phobias

    • @No-jo1qo
      @No-jo1qo 10 годин тому

      Well, they had… it’s called soma

    • @someasiandude4797
      @someasiandude4797 8 годин тому

      @@No-jo1qo True, but soma leans more into the scary and ugly factor of the monsters and physiological horror of AI.
      The game doesn't make being trapped under the sea part isn't the scary part.

    • @someasiandude4797
      @someasiandude4797 8 годин тому

      whoops bad grammer

  • @jdanielortega
    @jdanielortega 17 годин тому

    Awesome video! No one is as good as you to find odd things I didn't know I'd like to learn about

  • @Fracticality132
    @Fracticality132 15 годин тому +3

    Why didn’t you mention the Buford dolphin incident?

    • @WackoMcGoose
      @WackoMcGoose 13 годин тому +1

      Probably didn't want to get the video age-restricted, and/or Plainly Difficult already covered *_that_* quite well.

    • @Fracticality132
      @Fracticality132 13 годин тому

      @@WackoMcGoose yes good point

  • @Heartwing13
    @Heartwing13 14 годин тому +1

    For the future- the music was a little loud and intrusive, with all the trumpets.

  • @aljodomo
    @aljodomo 17 годин тому +8

    the music is a little dirtracting

  • @Ledshot
    @Ledshot 14 годин тому +1

    Heliox is less oxygen at pressure over 1.6ppO2 you'll have an oxygen toxicity hit.
    Also the O2 will be limited to not exceed maximum oxygen intake per day

  • @Marihl1354
    @Marihl1354 17 годин тому

    Hi hai team! Love the comedy you put into these info drops

  • @davidthompson5589
    @davidthompson5589 14 годин тому

    i have been in these chambers and make diver tools for them to work with. all very cool, though it seems a scary place to be down there. plus, it's interesting that there is only one place in the world where you can train to do this.

  • @setsuno2237
    @setsuno2237 15 годин тому +1

    Water starts to boil at 208°C or 407°F at that pressure crazy.

  • @InnocentDoodles
    @InnocentDoodles 50 хвилин тому

    I wonder if some of the guys that do this were a little spooked by the whole Oceangate thing, or if they were like "Psh. Amateaurs."

  • @odindimartino597
    @odindimartino597 14 годин тому

    It sound normal to anybody who watched or read Made In Abyss except it's underwater and they can go back to the surface more easily

  • @tHebUm18
    @tHebUm18 15 годин тому +1

    Wholesome to not mention the Byford Dolphin incident.

  • @motiss27
    @motiss27 15 годин тому

    1:03 - This is not fine, as explained as 5:00
    4:57 - Heliox contains no dinitrogen at all, and less dioxygen than normal air, a normal concentration of O2 would be deadly at such pressure

  • @zh2912
    @zh2912 18 годин тому +3

    It reminds me of Byford Disaster

  • @muggyate
    @muggyate 15 годин тому

    i'm impressed by yet another use of Helium that i had absolutely no idea about before.

  • @ariaden
    @ariaden 8 годин тому

    I like the optimism of people that assume PSI is an undrstandable unit. Frankly, Pascals are also unintuitive. I accept atmospheres, as that is 10 meters of water.

  • @lauraketteridge324
    @lauraketteridge324 5 годин тому

    A very polite request. Please include metric units. The USA is one of a handful of countries that don't use the metric system. It would be so much easier if you supplied both metric and USA's customary units in the videos.

  • @matthoward2234
    @matthoward2234 11 годин тому +1

    Having a hard time listening to the information because the background track goes so hard

  • @gabrieltenorio
    @gabrieltenorio 17 годин тому +5

    Very distracting music lol

  • @13thravenpurple94
    @13thravenpurple94 12 годин тому

    Amazing video! Thanks for sharing 👍

  • @TheStickCollector
    @TheStickCollector 19 годин тому +2

    Perhaps this can be useful for space colonization

    • @streetwind.
      @streetwind. 18 годин тому +1

      Indirectly, yes. Astronauts prepare themselves for EVA (extravehicular activity, AKA spacewalks) by pre-breathing special gas mixes and acclimatizing to lower pressures. Though they might spend a few hours on this, not days, as the pressure deltas are much lower. Even a perfect vacuum is only 15 psi removed from normal, to use the same units as this video.

    • @colbypupgaming1962
      @colbypupgaming1962 18 годин тому

      Spaceships though are only rated for between 0 and 1 atmospheres.

  • @dristor2
    @dristor2 2 години тому

    I had no idea about this. I had heard, however, that people die in tubes at the bottom of the ocean.

  • @DhruvB-kj5xn
    @DhruvB-kj5xn 17 годин тому +2

    The background music is very loud

  • @itsalovething8190
    @itsalovething8190 14 годин тому

    Taking the timee to give you your flowers on tthe chosen music for this episode! xx

  • @TheGreatDrAsian
    @TheGreatDrAsian 14 годин тому +1

    I wonder what's actually statistically more dangerous:
    This job?
    Or delivery driving?
    No doubt this is an extremely dangerous job but many people die and are hurt in car crashes each year, not to mention robberies and the like.
    I'm just wondering if there's data on that and what it looks like tbh
    Sometimes we think of things like this as extreme and deadly but it's really the mundane and everyday that can be even more lethal.

    • @jennifersalt3194
      @jennifersalt3194 10 годин тому +1

      Cool idea, but it would be hard to scale up for a comparison with this particular job, since so few ppl do it. You’d be better off using a job like fire fighter as a comparison-everyone knows it’s dangerous, but way more people are working as firefighters than as the type of diver featured in this video. There’s still going to be an imbalance in the number of ppl holding each type of job, but there are enough firefighters to be able to come up with a meaningful average. That said, it’d be cool if that guy over at Wendover put together a video based on the most (statistically) dangerous jobs in America.

  • @EastonStelter
    @EastonStelter 10 годин тому +1

    Was this video inspired by Silo

  • @BlackFeather923
    @BlackFeather923 15 годин тому

    This would mess with my claustrophobia to no end! I give them mad credit for having the guts to do thos, but you would never catch me down there in a million years!

  • @some-replies
    @some-replies 18 годин тому +1

    A SERIES OF TUBES!

  • @jeffreychen5130
    @jeffreychen5130 8 годин тому

    Water cup analogy works so well

  • @benzmansl65amg
    @benzmansl65amg 5 годин тому

    Correction: More helium and Less oxygen below 56m. The oxygen content becomes hypoxic for depths below, 75m.

  • @cenzala22
    @cenzala22 16 годин тому +4

    Background music? More like background narrator

  • @jbird4478
    @jbird4478 18 годин тому +1

    Cool. I always thought it was to meet Spongebob.

  • @smalltime0
    @smalltime0 9 годин тому

    "What about the shareholders" The real victims in all this.

  • @brandan7095
    @brandan7095 6 годин тому

    0:41 the reason your mom calls me every night at 2am

  • @TheRAJHEED
    @TheRAJHEED 8 годин тому

    2:33 they actually make more, i know sat diver welders who can make £2500 per day or more

  • @namensklauer
    @namensklauer 18 годин тому +5

    wow $1,400/day. with that kind of income you'd only have to work for not quite 2000 years to become a billionaire.

    • @pablojams5152
      @pablojams5152 18 годин тому

      Not even USD, it’s more like $300/day

    • @Dorgpoop
      @Dorgpoop 11 годин тому

      It's ok, I'm sure our billionaire overlords work a lot harder than a 2000 year long shift at the bottom of the sea, they _definitely_ got every penny through honest hard work.

  • @dorianpeters499
    @dorianpeters499 14 годин тому

    Why are there so many test runs for astronauts on how to live together in small rooms for extended periods of time, when this worked for decades?

  • @rabonour
    @rabonour 13 годин тому

    The only people on earth who can actually use the helium escape valves on luxury dive watches

  • @johnstewart3180
    @johnstewart3180 17 годин тому +2

    thank you for your time and effort that you put but i have a small request could you tone down the volume of background music while speaking or just remove it altogether. maybe its just me, as i dislike background music while speaking😢

    • @Heartwing13
      @Heartwing13 14 годин тому

      No, it was loud and intrusive with the trumpet blares.

  • @Darthrein
    @Darthrein 17 годин тому +20

    2:22 its not 14000 usd, it is 14000 rs, which is equal to 300 usd. Atleast watch your videos once before posting.

    • @H1bbe
      @H1bbe 16 годин тому +3

      Fourteen hundred would be $1400 - so it makes even less sense. Also a little disingenuous imo to say sat divers make up to 6 times as much when they compare the lowest paid air diver to the highest paid sat diver. It's more like 2-3 times as much if you look at the brackets.

    • @AndrewBrowner
      @AndrewBrowner 9 годин тому

      @@H1bbe how about both of you read the rest of that paragraph.. nice and slow now so you can understand it

  • @joewell6435
    @joewell6435 18 годин тому +1

    And if someone has a medical emergency, like a heart attack for instance, I guess they just die. I assume sat divers have to pass a pretty stringent medical exam to make this less likely

    • @neondemon5137
      @neondemon5137 18 годин тому +1

      I assume it's the same as being an astronaut.

  • @TheSomeguy1989
    @TheSomeguy1989 10 годин тому

    My only question is would HAI put their brain in a robot body? You'd have the strength of five Gorillas.

  • @AbdelhakOussaid
    @AbdelhakOussaid 16 годин тому +1

    Nice music video 😊

  • @brianelander5905
    @brianelander5905 8 годин тому +1

    Awesome video. Not a fan of the background music, it kept distracting me from the narration

  • @andrei1637
    @andrei1637 19 годин тому +1

    Yeah, never knew someone is there, let alone asking why

  • @airwick4u
    @airwick4u 18 годин тому +1

    If you ever want to know how important each airlock is and the process, look up the Byford Dolphin accident. Just do yourself a favour and don't look up the photos

  • @Daniel-xd8bm
    @Daniel-xd8bm 13 годин тому

    Mistake at 2:40 - the "14000 dollars a day" number is actually rupees

    • @AndrewBrowner
      @AndrewBrowner 9 годин тому

      read the whole paragraph you goof

  • @MrSequeezey
    @MrSequeezey 10 годин тому

    I don’t know why they made it as miserable as possible instead of just making a decently livable space.

  • @jessicascoullar3737
    @jessicascoullar3737 14 годин тому

    If pressure decreases taste, does that mean food tastes more intense on Mt Everest?

  • @TS_Mind_Swept
    @TS_Mind_Swept 2 години тому

    Not only would it be a drag to take 6 hours to ascend to the surface, you'd get awfully hungry in that time 👀

  • @graemeash2898
    @graemeash2898 5 годин тому

    would defiantly recommend the joe scot video on the same topic the video's called how to fit a person through a five inch hole and is about the Byford dolphin incident not for the squeamish

  • @ScottMillirem
    @ScottMillirem 15 годин тому

    You showed a picture of a MTB tire while saying a bike tire is 65 PSI. It is very unlikely that is designed to handle 65 PSI and would more normally be inflated to around 20-30 PSI.

  • @Raven74947
    @Raven74947 10 годин тому

    It's like the anti space station, but harder.
    Nice music

  • @F14foreverF14
    @F14foreverF14 16 годин тому

    4:50 At depth oxygen is toxic so heliox contains very low 0² and no nitrogen.

    • @golemofiron7250
      @golemofiron7250 14 годин тому +1

      Erm you should actually be using subscript (below) not superscript (above)

  • @aashaytambi3268
    @aashaytambi3268 6 годин тому

    2:30 you said in dollars where it was in ruppes

  • @davepubliday6410
    @davepubliday6410 12 годин тому

    I don’t understand why they’d “talk like ducks”. The pressure on the inside of their lungs would equal the pressure outside their bodies. Surely this means they would talk normally.

  • @ThootenTootinTabootin
    @ThootenTootinTabootin 13 годин тому

    Bro, it is literally less than 20 psi in my bikes tire. I didn't know they went that high. I have 20"x4" tires for the snow