Just read a stat about saturation diving that blew my mind

Was looking at some old industry reports from the North Sea. Found a chart showing average saturation dive times from the 80s. Guys were living in chambers for over 30 days straight on some jobs. My longest bell run was 8 hours and I was cooked. How did they handle a full month under pressure? Anyone work with divers who did those old marathon sat runs?

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dylanfisher7mo ago

Remember hearing about the old decompression schedules? My buddy said they'd spend over a week just coming up from a long sat run, which sounds like its own kind of prison. Can't imagine the mental grind of that after already being down there a month.

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adamgreen7mo ago

@dylanfisher Did they ever talk about what they actually did during that week? Just sitting in a tiny chamber sounds worse than the dive itself. The boredom must have been its own special kind of torture.

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perry.evan6mo ago

Modern life is just a series of decompression chambers.

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