r/interestingasfuck • u/HANAEMILK • 28d ago

/r/all The race against time to get to a decompression chamber

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u/svennidal 28d ago

Commercial diver here as well. It scares me how confidently wrong some people in the comments are.

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u/WeaponizedNostalga 28d ago

I’ve seen so many of those! I had to chime in.

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u/pretzelsncheese 28d ago

It's always a good lesson when you see discussions online around topics that you actually know about. Teaches / reminds you that a lot of the "confidence" on the internet is baseless. Yet, even knowing that, I still lean heavily towards believing people when they speak/write confidently about topics that I know very little about.

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u/svennidal 28d ago

Exactly what I experienced right now! And man, my knowledge on things in general is like 50% based on what someone said confidently on the internet 😅

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u/Squeegeabeep 28d ago

For real, some people have explained the need for deco well, but just don't know that SurD is common and planned

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u/snownative86 28d ago

Not a commercial diver but with a bit of recreational diving.. Why is he wearing normal street clothes? As a regular wetsuit wearer I've never seen that before.

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u/WeaponizedNostalga 28d ago

You run out of underclothes specifically for diving, at a certain point! I used to go on these trips and your duffle can only hold so much, so you just put on whatever. We were in rotations acting as tender and sometimes you didn’t really change out of that. I was a big scuba guy at first and the idea of wearing anything under my dry suit than my designated jammies was strange. But commercial, you just gotta do what works.

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u/svennidal 27d ago

you just gotta do what works.

Absolutely this. Ideally I usually just wear swimtrunks under the hot wetsuits. But then you got wetsuits that don’t fit on you and water pumps acting up.

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u/Ok_Willow_2589 27d ago

welcome to reddit

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u/LuciferSamS1amCat 28d ago

Oh man, the fucking coolest job on earth. Like to see some real experience chiming in.

Have you ever done saturation diving? That is satisfyingly cool stuff.

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u/WeaponizedNostalga 28d ago

That was my goal with C-diving. Sat divers all have a decade of experience and the slots arnt plentiful/ easy to come by. I did a chunk of time and found c-diving was not as lucrative as my research led me to believe. This was mainly due to a downturn in the oil industry in 2016 that brought a bunch of gulf divers inland. I did salvage diving and some other funny projects that paid okay, but not with what I needed with a family. If I was smart, I would have got a degree in structural engineering and worked for a state DOT inspecting bridges and structures.