it takes 2 days to come back from the moon. it takes 4 days to come back from 100m. divers are way cooler and under way more pressure than precious astronauts
Grew up around the ocean, spending a lot of time fishing, swimming, kayaking, etc. However, I've never had the bravery to dive, let alone go beyond what the human body is meant to withstand. That darkness that surrounds y'all... It's like being in the vacuum of space. Thanks for sharing, I probably will never dive but videos like this are endlessly fascinating
Since my comment is over 6 years old now, I did eventually become a commercial diver. I don’t do SAT, but it’s still a cool job. I was a cameraman for a job where I took a picture of a guy that looked very similar to that shot haha
Your the best and most brave. I am a geoduck diver washington state and scared at 40 to 50 ft for 3 hrs. I fight with myself alot so watching this gives me strength amd courage thank u
First you need to become a Commercial Diver, breathing air. Then you need to gain some experience and once you have the required experience, do a Closed Bell (Saturation) Diving course. Then you need to be in the right place at the right time. I was diving for 9 years before I did my Closed Bell course.
How do you understand each other with such high pitched voices. Why no gloves surely its bone cold even with suit heating. Do you see much sealife? Also it sounds very noisy since water is better at picking up all sound than air. Err one issue - closed spaces and food- smelly combination. What happens if you snore badly!!??
Really want to enroll at DIT in Seattle but I’m terrified that there will not be work enough for me when I graduate or if there is I won’t be making a livable wage for living here in California
I’ve never done saturation dives but quite a few tri mix dives and it always amazes me that people can understand what I’m saying because it sounds like gibberish to my own ear ! Play safe out there boys !
I was thinking of doing this when I was young but I had a bit of a fear of very dark deep water. I didn't put more thought into and never bothered doing a padi just to get started. I still haven't done a padi. Oh well.
@@koratplayz3509 what about you do you still have the ambition to become a sat diver? Did you take steps in that direction? Please reply i really wanna know.
WOW! Fantastic thanks for showing. Can you tell me are those tanks you also carry on your back some sort of emergency mixed gas supply in case the umbilical fails? What a job! I used to live next door to a saturation diver but only once did we converse about his diving adventures in the Indian ocean.
Yes exactly that. They are filled with a breathing mix of Helium and Oxygen that is specific to the depth we are diving at. If you need to use them, you’re in trouble!!!
@@diverandy77 Hi thanks for letting me know. Yes I bet u would be in trouble as you say. I'm a Scuba diver of many many years but of all my diving adventures, they seem pathetic compared to what you guys do and your training. Great channel I'm subbing!
Hans Schmalberger ohhhh no you didnt, that fucking video gave me nightmares for 2 weeks after watching it. It may be the worst thing to watch if you cant do confined spaces
Can anyone explain what the sound we hear at 0:00, 0:08 and 0:12 is caused by? Is it the heliox being injected into the diver's helmet? Does a small amount of heliox get injected every single time the diver inhales, or just every so often? Thank you!
What sort of things do you do when you are down there, on average is the work mentally/physically challenging and do you get taught what to do before hand?
The work varies. We can be bolting large sections of pipeline together, connecting up electrical or hydraulic control lines or carrying out inspections on subsea assets. Over time you pick up the knowledge and skills required to do the job. If in doubt, the dive supervisor should know what to do and if he's stuck, there'll be a set of procedures to refer to.
Keep The Faith I’m not terribly sure, but it’s likely due to the suits being warmer than the air inside the bell, and causing the water on the suits to radiate vapour. The suits themselves are heated internally by hot water that flows through the layers of the suit, since water at this depth is often freezing.
Hey Andy, I find this a very intresting job and have been considering it and doing research, but is there any long term health risks of doing this and diving this deep for years? Can't find a straight answer, thank you if you find time to reply
Seems "they" try to hide all the dangers, pretty much all the earlier saturation divers that did go down to 400 - 500 got their health ruined but you never hear about that anywhere anymore ... It is possible they have solved the problems but I doubt it because it seemed the problem was simply the nervous system got ruined by the extremely high pressure. But it hard to say since all the information about it seems to get deleted...
Bigger chambers require bigger ships which cost more money. They also take more gas to fill them and Helium is expensive. The steam is coming off my suit because of the temperature difference between the sea water, bell atmosphere and the hot water running through my suit to keep me warm.
That's crazy I cannot imagine what it would feel like to wake up down there after a quick nap lmao. Really have to be seriously skilled and level headed. Well done.
All divers are trained in First Aid, 2 out of 3 are trained in advanced first aid there is a Medic on board the boat, the life support team are first aid trained and there are Doctors on call in case something goes wrong. If it is really serious a surgeon can be sent into the chamber to perform surgery.
so if the doctor is required to go into the chamber to preform surgery, he has to decompress for 6 days with the divers? ... i mean, right? that's commitment.
Is bouancy compensation easier at these pressures? Is there a difference going from the bell to the water? Or have you gauged it beforehand with weights etc.?
Buoyancy compensation is easier at depth than it is in shallower water. Because at 10m if you move up 1m you reduce the pressure by 10%, at 100m if you move up 1m you reduce your pressure by 1%. That's rough physics but generally how it works. There is a platform below the bell, called the stage, that we climb down onto. If the job is mid-water we'll put gas into the stab jacket before we jump off the stage and swim to the job. A lot of the time we work on the seabed so don't need buoyancy to get to the job. We don'y usually wear weights, the kit is heavy enough to not need any.
The pressure inside the Diving Bell equalises as the Bell reaches the equivalent water pressure. Because the pressure is equal, then the only weight holding the door closed is the weight of the door itself. There is a spring mechanism on the Bell in this video which gives some assistance when opening and closing the door.
Decompression or coming back to the surface takes days. Also they breath a helium/O2 mixture. You can hear some of there high voices. Like little aliens.
What's the temperature like in the bell compared to the water? Watching that diver get back into the bell and immediately start steaming was crazy looking. I'm guessing it's pretty warm in there?
Yes, they do. Hot water is supplied to the suit. The diver can control the flow and ask the supervisor to increase or decrease the temperature as required.
They fill the suits with warm water, it gets pretty cold down there, plus it has something to do with the pressure (forgive me I am not sure about that one).
Fill a bath. Upturn a glass and push it, open end first, into the water. The air inside the glass will prevent the water from filling the glass. Similar principle when Saturation Diving. The gas pressure inside stops the water coming in.
@@diverandy77 surely it cant just be the natural pressure of the environment that prevents the water from entering when very deep? how do they make the pressure so high to keep it out without it seeping out and displacing?
Dan Spence the bell is pressurized to a depth similar to that, which the divers are working at. As the bell travels up and down a door is closed in the bottom and the pressure sealed inside. When the bell returns to the surface it is mated to a chamber system, which is also pressurized, and the divers transfer through for showers, food and a rest period.
Hello You have some interesting commercial diving videos, I want to use them on my page without commercial purposes, only educational. Would you let me download them? obviously they would have the respective credits. I hope to hear from you.
At the beginning of this video, what grabbed my attention and, my wife’s attention so fast was all the things that we saw, that could grab a hold of all of his lifeline cords / AIR HOSE NUMBER 1!! that he needs and get tangled up trying to get out of the compartment. Talk about tight quarters with things that can, turn into a major safety hazard. FAST.
Hi- great film. I am trying to get hold of an old friend but struggling... anyone who where Ozzy Heath Adams is working? I used to hang out with him in crazy Qatar
I hear that regardless of how careful deco is handled that you eventually suffer health issues and lower lifespan than other types of jobs. Is that true?
idk but that's fucking cool!!!!! OMG idk what I want to be I got many things in my mind either a music producer, Engineer, a under water welder(commercial diving) shit so many things in my head!😫😫
Generally 6 hours in the water, although there's no limit to the gas supply. Years ago It would've been common for divers to do up to 12 hours. Mixture depends on depth. Near surface it will be 80% Helium 20% Oxygen. The deeper you go, the less Oxygen will be in the mix.
If someone goes to commercial diving school, how realistic is it getting a job doing anything with commercial diving. Even as just a line tender or gopher?
In all honesty, the chances aren't that great. The Dive schools are churning out Divers at a fantastic rate. The drop in oil prices has put a lot of experienced Divers out of work. Hopefully things are on the up. Good Luck if you decide to give it a go though. There's not another job that comes close.
Hot water runs through the suit to keep the diver warm. The water I was climbing out of was around 4 degrees celsius so the steam is the water evaporating.
Because that would make it heavier which would mean the winches would have to be bigger. Along with the weight a bigger Bell would require larger support equipment, bigger moon pool, more gas (helium is expensive) and better heating, among other things. There are Bells that are bigger than the one on the 7 Pelican, but the Vessels are far bigger.
It must have been quite warm water, the diver didn’t have glove’s on, as fare as I can see, witch seems odd as the dive were done in the North Sea and is in the best of summer’s in my experience, not that warm even on the surface and definitely not at depth🤓🇸🇪
Occasionally. There are Porbeagle Sharks sometimes especially in the Norwegian sector. I saw a lot more when I was working in the Gulf of Mexico and lads that work in Australia often see Great Whites.
@@luisstanziola4784 never had one charge at me. Don't think I know anyone that's been attacked by a Shark. Google "Wolf Eel", now they're a different story...
Depends on the length of the trip and the location. It's better not to consider just the pay. The conditions you work in are more important. Especially when it comes to the equipment you use. Better conditions attract better Divers and that makes for a far safer and more productive working environment.
Hi @@HosaefromHouston The best advice I can give is to make sure you have a trade or skillset that compliments diving. Anything mechanically biased will be handy. Plumber, fitter, metal worker or a background in general engineering. There is a lot of nuts and bolts involved in offshore diving so knowing how to use the tools will help you massively. Physical fitness is becoming more and more important so looking after yourself won't do you any harm. If you can't weld, don't worry about it, it's easier to teach a decent welder to dive than it is to teach a diver to weld.
@@diverandy77 thank you I think you pretty sum up everything I should be better prepared before entering thank you I’ll let you know if I have anymore questions
The suit is supplied with hot water to keep you warm. The diver and regulate the flow to the suit and also ask the supervisor to increase or decrease the tempertature, depending on the depth and type of work being carried out.
Helium is used to replace Nitrogen, that is present in the Air we breathe on the surface. Nitrogen is very toxic at depth but Helium isn't. As Drimirin said below, Helium isn't toxic. There is still a risk from "The Bends" or Decompression Illness when breathing Helium though.
Oxygen is also very toxic at that depth... its just that the concentration they pump in is far less than what would be in surface level air. Astronauts breathe pure oxygen however its at a concentration similar to 10,000 ft elevation.
You guys are the astronauts that never leave earth. Going places most have never been. Aquanauts :)
it takes 2 days to come back from the moon. it takes 4 days to come back from 100m. divers are way cooler and under way more pressure than precious astronauts
@@freelectron2029 Are you a sat diver?
At least on the moon you dont have to worry about getting eaten.. I don't think you do anyways.
@@wormwood078 never know lol ;)
I think the word would be aquanauts lol
Grew up around the ocean, spending a lot of time fishing, swimming, kayaking, etc. However, I've never had the bravery to dive, let alone go beyond what the human body is meant to withstand. That darkness that surrounds y'all... It's like being in the vacuum of space. Thanks for sharing, I probably will never dive but videos like this are endlessly fascinating
It's worse. Space is fake. Saturation diving is real.
If you're wondering why their voices sound weird, it's because sat divers breathe a helium and oxygen mix.
Thanks for explanation I thought they were born like this
No one was wondering, everyone knew.
No shit Sherlock!
@@stanjavorsky7151 ratio bro no one asked do you live to respond to these comments holy shit you’re gay as fucj
@@Str8Gass judging by your name you probably pump straight gas into your garage since your so sick of ur pitiful life
2:20 is the coolest shot ever. I hope I get to do this someday.
I was actually very partial to the shot at 1:43!
looks so badass
@@Jojec420 it does bro. Thats what im thinking 😂
Looks like the poster for John carpenters the thing
Since my comment is over 6 years old now, I did eventually become a commercial diver. I don’t do SAT, but it’s still a cool job. I was a cameraman for a job where I took a picture of a guy that looked very similar to that shot haha
Your the best and most brave. I am a geoduck diver washington state and scared at 40 to 50 ft for 3 hrs. I fight with myself alot so watching this gives me strength amd courage thank u
It was around 100m depth.
hello would you mind telling me the process of getting your job and how much time it took thank you and have a wonderful day
First you need to become a Commercial Diver, breathing air. Then you need to gain some experience and once you have the required experience, do a Closed Bell (Saturation) Diving course. Then you need to be in the right place at the right time.
I was diving for 9 years before I did my Closed Bell course.
diverandy77 how much would this pay? In euros or dollars if you feel okay sharing it
How cold was it?
How do you understand each other with such high pitched voices. Why no gloves surely its bone cold even with suit heating. Do you see much sealife? Also it sounds very noisy since water is better at picking up all sound than air. Err one issue - closed spaces and food- smelly combination. What happens if you snore badly!!??
spooky shit, hats off to these men
.. and women! ;)
I didnt see any women in the video... Unless your implying ones trans gender, witch is very rude.
John J Kelly, that’s not true. There are a few women worldwide that do this job. I’ve not worked with any, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t any.
theedwardian: hats off? They drown if they take off the hat🤓
.. And Women! :)
1:55 - literally thought he was sat there chilling on his phone texting or something
Damn what cell service is that
I have one more year of welding then I’m off to diving school in Louisiana I cannot wait
Two years later...how did it go?
Yesss please give an update 🙏
Wow this is so amazing, I cannot find too much footage of saturation diving, man you are brave!!! I found this so fascinating
Fuck this is so awesome and I need to do this but not gonna lie it’d be very hard to contain myself with the Mickey Mouse voices 😂😂
Really want to enroll at DIT in Seattle but I’m terrified that there will not be work enough for me when I graduate or if there is I won’t be making a livable wage for living here in California
I’ve never done saturation dives but quite a few tri mix dives and it always amazes me that people can understand what I’m saying because it sounds like gibberish to my own ear !
Play safe out there boys !
I was thinking of doing this when I was young but I had a bit of a fear of very dark deep water. I didn't put more thought into and never bothered doing a padi just to get started. I still haven't done a padi. Oh well.
The sound of your voices always cracks me up 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Whew! That would be my nightmare! I don’t even like to fly - too claustrophobic. How do these guys deal with the mental aspects of this job!?
This is probably the craziest thing I have ever seen.
dang its crazy you can hear the helium voice change of the diver in the beginning, kind of erie
i have a small obsession with sat diving at the moment. I think i want to become one
Me as well. Utterly fascinating. I just was struck with the same feeling. Have you kept the same ambition or has it since faded?
@@koratplayz3509 what about you do you still have the ambition to become a sat diver? Did you take steps in that direction? Please reply i really wanna know.
My fullest respect to these divers👍👍👍
Man, much respect for you guys, I get dizzy cleaning the deep side of the pool !!!!!
WOW! Fantastic thanks for showing. Can you tell me are those tanks you also carry on your back some sort of emergency mixed gas supply in case the umbilical fails? What a job! I used to live next door to a saturation diver but only once did we converse about his diving adventures in the Indian ocean.
Yes exactly that. They are filled with a breathing mix of Helium and Oxygen that is specific to the depth we are diving at. If you need to use them, you’re in trouble!!!
@@diverandy77 Hi thanks for letting me know. Yes I bet u would be in trouble as you say. I'm a Scuba diver of many many years but of all my diving adventures, they seem pathetic compared to what you guys do and your training. Great channel I'm subbing!
did anyone else think of space oddity as they stepped outside the dive bell?
my worst fear is being in tight spaces underwater
Josh Davidson u should check out nutty putty cave incident.
Hans Schmalberger ohhhh no you didnt, that fucking video gave me nightmares for 2 weeks after watching it. It may be the worst thing to watch if you cant do confined spaces
check out underwater cave diving
Can anyone explain what the sound we hear at 0:00, 0:08 and 0:12 is caused by? Is it the heliox being injected into the diver's helmet? Does a small amount of heliox get injected every single time the diver inhales, or just every so often? Thank you!
It's the diver breathing and the demand valve allowing gas into the hat
Tight spaces lord I would freak out In there
Exploxer25 man you and me both
Cool! Are underwater currents a problem? How do you deal with kicked up silt?
Not really. In areas where tides are strong the dives will be arranged around slack water.
I've seen horror movies way less scary than this. Terrifying 😱
Like vampire killing. Tough but it pays well ❤😊
What sort of things do you do when you are down there, on average is the work mentally/physically challenging and do you get taught what to do before hand?
The work varies. We can be bolting large sections of pipeline together, connecting up electrical or hydraulic control lines or carrying out inspections on subsea assets. Over time you pick up the knowledge and skills required to do the job. If in doubt, the dive supervisor should know what to do and if he's stuck, there'll be a set of procedures to refer to.
Wow.....almost like being on the surface of another planet. Talk about a truly alien world. It takes a special kind of person to do this for a living.
Why was he smoking? 3:24
It may be steam if the pressure is being released but I’m not sure. I’m pretty sure it’s steam coming off of something though
Keep The Faith I’m not terribly sure, but it’s likely due to the suits being warmer than the air inside the bell, and causing the water on the suits to radiate vapour. The suits themselves are heated internally by hot water that flows through the layers of the suit, since water at this depth is often freezing.
It takes a certain breed of men/woman to do this type of work. My hat goes of to you brave people!!
It's not really a womans job. No further discussion !
@@paulanthonybridge5741 Nice !!
That's some man work there!
I don’t usually say this, but whatever they get paid, they should get paid more.
Hey Andy, I find this a very intresting job and have been considering it and doing research, but is there any long term health risks of doing this and diving this deep for years? Can't find a straight answer, thank you if you find time to reply
Seems "they" try to hide all the dangers, pretty much all the earlier saturation divers that did go down to 400 - 500 got their health ruined but you never hear about that anywhere anymore ... It is possible they have solved the problems but I doubt it because it seemed the problem was simply the nervous system got ruined by the extremely high pressure. But it hard to say since all the information about it seems to get deleted...
@@a64738 thanks for the reply! I agree I could only possibly see these problems being solved with more advanced technology
Freaking sweet these guys are badass. Why don't they make the chamber's larger and why was he steaming when he returned to the chamber?
Bigger chambers require bigger ships which cost more money. They also take more gas to fill them and Helium is expensive.
The steam is coming off my suit because of the temperature difference between the sea water, bell atmosphere and the hot water running through my suit to keep me warm.
I see these guys and then I see the social media influencers and I dislike the second ones even more. All my respect for these brave men.
When saturation diving do you guys take naps underwater? I mean those dives can last a while damn.
I would love to be a diver.
We can spend 6-8 hours in the water. It has been known for divers to have a sleep, if there's not much happening.
diverandy77
I bet it feels amazing to sleep deep underwater.
That's crazy I cannot imagine what it would feel like to wake up down there after a quick nap lmao. Really have to be seriously skilled and level headed. Well done.
I'm a tower climber and often take naps way up high but at least I can still see where I am when I wake up.
Logan Stroganoff Lmao
It's not just a job, it's an adventure!
What happens if some one gets injured since its very deep and yall have to decompress?
All divers are trained in First Aid, 2 out of 3 are trained in advanced first aid there is a Medic on board the boat, the life support team are first aid trained and there are Doctors on call in case something goes wrong. If it is really serious a surgeon can be sent into the chamber to perform surgery.
its safer and quicker to send someone in to the chamber. you can drop to those depths rather quickly. but you have to decompress very slowly
so if the doctor is required to go into the chamber to preform surgery, he has to decompress for 6 days with the divers? ... i mean, right? that's commitment.
Watch the movie on Netflix called last breath
When you getting back and go from water to the first container, how they make it without getting water with them inside? Pressure also?
Yes. The pressure inside the diving bell is the same as the water pressure at depth. That's enough to keep the water out
You are in your own little world down there. Very cool!
super brave. there is a lot that can go wrong
Is bouancy compensation easier at these pressures? Is there a difference going from the bell to the water? Or have you gauged it beforehand with weights etc.?
Buoyancy compensation is easier at depth than it is in shallower water. Because at 10m if you move up 1m you reduce the pressure by 10%, at 100m if you move up 1m you reduce your pressure by 1%. That's rough physics but generally how it works.
There is a platform below the bell, called the stage, that we climb down onto. If the job is mid-water we'll put gas into the stab jacket before we jump off the stage and swim to the job. A lot of the time we work on the seabed so don't need buoyancy to get to the job. We don'y usually wear weights, the kit is heavy enough to not need any.
Thank you that's a very clear explanation
How can a hatch be opened, what about the pressure. How that works? Thank you and be safe.
The pressure inside the Diving Bell equalises as the Bell reaches the equivalent water pressure. Because the pressure is equal, then the only weight holding the door closed is the weight of the door itself. There is a spring mechanism on the Bell in this video which gives some assistance when opening and closing the door.
Decompression or coming back to the surface takes days. Also they breath a helium/O2 mixture. You can hear some of there high voices. Like little aliens.
Is it the helium oxygen mixture that's changing the voices or is the video sped up?
mine mine gas mixture.
It's the Helium
What a lovely work enviroment
I was looking for brockhampton but this is also great
What's the temperature like in the bell compared to the water? Watching that diver get back into the bell and immediately start steaming was crazy looking. I'm guessing it's pretty warm in there?
Bell has hot water/ hot air blowers to warm bell
I love scuba diving. I love hardhat diving. I love umbilical diving. I love saturation diving.
question, do the divers have hor water circulation in the suit? Because i see they are kind of lightly dressed..
Yes, they do. Hot water is supplied to the suit. The diver can control the flow and ask the supervisor to increase or decrease the temperature as required.
@@diverandy77 Thank you for clarifying this 👍
why was there steam coming off of the diver
They fill the suits with warm water, it gets pretty cold down there, plus it has something to do with the pressure (forgive me I am not sure about that one).
Temperature and pressure differential. Basically microscopic layers of the water are instantly boiling off. OR conversely condensing.
can someone tell me how they can be underwater in the pod but open a hatch and have the water look like a hole in the ground without it rushing in?
Fill a bath. Upturn a glass and push it, open end first, into the water. The air inside the glass will prevent the water from filling the glass. Similar principle when Saturation Diving. The gas pressure inside stops the water coming in.
@@diverandy77 surely it cant just be the natural pressure of the environment that prevents the water from entering when very deep? how do they make the pressure so high to keep it out without it seeping out and displacing?
Dan Spence the bell is pressurized to a depth similar to that, which the divers are working at. As the bell travels up and down a door is closed in the bottom and the pressure sealed inside. When the bell returns to the surface it is mated to a chamber system, which is also pressurized, and the divers transfer through for showers, food and a rest period.
@@diverandy77 thanks very interesting
This is the real John Glenn right here - respect
Hello
You have some interesting commercial diving videos, I want to use them on my page without commercial purposes, only educational.
Would you let me download them? obviously they would have the respective credits.
I hope to hear from you.
At the beginning of this video, what grabbed my attention and, my wife’s attention so fast was all the things that we saw, that could grab a hold of all of his lifeline cords / AIR HOSE NUMBER 1!!
that he needs and get tangled up trying to get out of the compartment. Talk about tight quarters with things that can, turn into a major safety hazard. FAST.
Is that smoke from the heat of the hot water suit?
Prospective ADAS diver
Its steam. The water is about 2-3 degrees and the hot water suit is being filled with about 35 degrees to keep me warm.
Hi- great film. I am trying to get hold of an old friend but struggling... anyone who where Ozzy Heath Adams is working? I used to hang out with him in crazy Qatar
Looks like you guys are having a blast
I hear that regardless of how careful deco is handled that you eventually suffer health issues and lower lifespan than other types of jobs. Is that true?
No.
Whats the depth this dive was made?
idk but that's fucking cool!!!!! OMG idk what I want to be I got many things in my mind either a music producer, Engineer, a under water welder(commercial diving) shit so many things in my head!😫😫
Lol I could never get used to the sound / the way they talk!!! Daffy-Fucking-Duck 24/7!!!!!!! LOAO!!!! (My wife and me!!!! Lol 😝)
we know more about the moon than we do about our oceans. Legit could be in another world down there.
How long can you stay underwater for and what's the mixture they use?
Generally 6 hours in the water, although there's no limit to the gas supply. Years ago It would've been common for divers to do up to 12 hours.
Mixture depends on depth. Near surface it will be 80% Helium 20% Oxygen. The deeper you go, the less Oxygen will be in the mix.
@@diverandy77 longest run I ever done was 14 hrs in water, that was an exception. What vessel are you on?
Я только не понял,а почему пар идет?такая разница температур?
like astronauts on a mission
what housing you using for your camera there ? Gopro i presume
Liam Clark GoPro Hero 3 Black. Standard housing.
2:38 is awesome
Hey. Any way I can contact you about using some of your footage in some videos Im making?
Whats scary is the fact there are big ass animals swiming down there
If someone goes to commercial diving school, how realistic is it getting a job doing anything with commercial diving. Even as just a line tender or gopher?
In all honesty, the chances aren't that great. The Dive schools are churning out Divers at a fantastic rate. The drop in oil prices has put a lot of experienced Divers out of work. Hopefully things are on the up. Good Luck if you decide to give it a go though. There's not another job that comes close.
im going to school in july. dont care where i work or even if i get paid haha i just want to be in the water
May i ask, what school did you attend? Im thinking I want to go to CDA myself.
Why was the diver evaporating when he got back in?
Hot water runs through the suit to keep the diver warm. The water I was climbing out of was around 4 degrees celsius so the steam is the water evaporating.
At what depth were you operating in this video?
Around 100m. Although the video is made up of a number of different dives, so there may be footage from shallower or deeper depths.
Around 100m
My question is where do they find these people?
All over the place.
To do all that and be able to coexist with other people in extremely tight quarters for extended periods of time.........crazy level consciousness....
Why don’t they make the bell bigger?
Because that would make it heavier which would mean the winches would have to be bigger. Along with the weight a bigger Bell would require larger support equipment, bigger moon pool, more gas (helium is expensive) and better heating, among other things. There are Bells that are bigger than the one on the 7 Pelican, but the Vessels are far bigger.
At the start I thought there was a person to the left and was worried he broke his neck
Otherworldly. I wish I knew what job you were doing, though
It is called Saturation Diving. It is Industrial diving in great depths.
It must have been quite warm water, the diver didn’t have glove’s on, as fare as I can see, witch seems odd as the dive were done in the North Sea and is in the best of summer’s in my experience, not that warm even on the surface and definitely not at depth🤓🇸🇪
The water would've been around 5 degrees Celsius. The divers are wearing gloves that circulate with warm water to prevent cold injuries.
Jamie no I'm not rich when I retired from diving started an earthmoving business been all downhill since ha ha but going ok
REally amazing, please do more if still doing sat
dis u guys find alien or kaijuu down there?
Cool video love commercial diving.
How often yall see sharks ?
Occasionally. There are Porbeagle Sharks sometimes especially in the Norwegian sector. I saw a lot more when I was working in the Gulf of Mexico and lads that work in Australia often see Great Whites.
@@diverandy77 but do they charge at you or normally just pass by very close?
@@luisstanziola4784 never had one charge at me. Don't think I know anyone that's been attacked by a Shark. Google "Wolf Eel", now they're a different story...
Hey Andy, how much can a sat diver make per trip normally?
£2.67
Depends on the length of the trip and the location. It's better not to consider just the pay. The conditions you work in are more important. Especially when it comes to the equipment you use. Better conditions attract better Divers and that makes for a far safer and more productive working environment.
@@diverandy77 if you still use this channel mind giving some advice for us youngins as myself thinking about entering this type of work field
Hi @@HosaefromHouston The best advice I can give is to make sure you have a trade or skillset that compliments diving. Anything mechanically biased will be handy. Plumber, fitter, metal worker or a background in general engineering. There is a lot of nuts and bolts involved in offshore diving so knowing how to use the tools will help you massively. Physical fitness is becoming more and more important so looking after yourself won't do you any harm. If you can't weld, don't worry about it, it's easier to teach a decent welder to dive than it is to teach a diver to weld.
@@diverandy77 thank you I think you pretty sum up everything I should be better prepared before entering thank you I’ll let you know if I have anymore questions
Fascinating stuff, you guys must make a good living.
180k a year
Looks like the 1989 movie "The Abyss".
How do you guys get paid?
Is it cold?
The suit is supplied with hot water to keep you warm. The diver and regulate the flow to the suit and also ask the supervisor to increase or decrease the tempertature, depending on the depth and type of work being carried out.
I appreciate what they do but i would go nuts inside the bell in ten minutes.
are you guys breathing helium? and what are you doing down there?
We breathe a Helium/Oxygen mix. On this project we were bolting spool pieces to a manifold.
diverandy77 Is it okay for the human body to breathe in helium gas?
BadassEFdriver Yes. Helium is a non-toxic, inert gas. They only way it could hurt you is if that's the only thing you breathed.
Helium is used to replace Nitrogen, that is present in the Air we breathe on the surface. Nitrogen is very toxic at depth but Helium isn't. As Drimirin said below, Helium isn't toxic. There is still a risk from "The Bends" or Decompression Illness when breathing Helium though.
Oxygen is also very toxic at that depth... its just that the concentration they pump in is far less than what would be in surface level air. Astronauts breathe pure oxygen however its at a concentration similar to 10,000 ft elevation.
It's like a horror movie. Damn.
they might as well be an astronaut
dive down deep comrades! All the way down to the ancient megalithic ruins of the former world
You might as well tell me to climb Everest.
Amazing, a Buddy jacket…..
Any monsters down there
Google "Wolf Eel"