Saturation Diving- You're in a different world

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    Jadon Anderson on his career sat diving.
    "My deepest was 621 feet"
    "When you drop out into the unknown- and you know, I could be the first person that’s actually stood here. You’re in a different world. I love Sat diving. I’m home now for two months and I can’t wait to get back offshore right now. "
    Learn more about commercial dive school: www.diversinstitute.edu/
    video by Balance Media
    www.balancemedia.tv/

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  • @KantFromEC
    @KantFromEC Před 3 lety +11416

    They're astronauts, but upside down.

  • @jbirdharold6640
    @jbirdharold6640 Před 5 lety +6521

    Fish are even looking at them like bruhh

  • @sweeptheleg.
    @sweeptheleg. Před 3 lety +8446

    Living 28 days in a metal capsule with 3 other dudes, decompressing for up to a week. It better be paying NFL quarterback money to get me to even consider doing that as a career. Massive respect to those guys.

    • @peachpls
      @peachpls Před 3 lety +876

      From what I've seen in other sat diving vids, they make roughly around $1500 a day

    • @supermanchado1
      @supermanchado1 Před 3 lety +890

      They earn over $ 500,000 per year.

    • @beloved_lover
      @beloved_lover Před 3 lety +589

      @@anonomooose3036 So that's still butt loads of money that you get to enjoy for the other 6 months, assuming you don't have that much training/etc outside of the time you're not working.

    • @haroldbrown6630
      @haroldbrown6630 Před 3 lety +198

      I could never do this.

    • @kevinroark5024
      @kevinroark5024 Před 3 lety +272

      A friend in my hunting club is a Sat.diver&he makes over a qtr.million a year.

  • @matthewpace5834
    @matthewpace5834 Před 3 lety +4007

    My dad did this back in the seventies. He worked off of Stevanga in Sweden. His team of four would actually stay at the bottom in the bell and compartment. They did two week shifts. One day my brother, sister and I found a cassette tape marked “Sea Floor” so we threw it in the cassette deck. We then proceeded to listen to the greatest tape ever recorded, and laughed until we were peeing ourselves. To pass the time, these four brave souls would record their farts into a microphone attached to a small Waltham tape recorder. That tape was over an hour long. Brilliant to a ten year old.

    • @alihasanaxe4936
      @alihasanaxe4936 Před 2 lety +176

      That is fucking legendary, would you happen to have a copy today?

    • @abakdpotato
      @abakdpotato Před 2 lety +14

      This is amazing haha

    • @WhoAmI-kb4vf
      @WhoAmI-kb4vf Před 2 lety +10

      @robert mayes h a h a

    • @mykel808
      @mykel808 Před 2 lety +68

      @robert mayes you've never terrorized your guy friends for fun? i used to lock my windows on my sisters driving around after some nasty farts back in the day lol

    • @trollkraft3577
      @trollkraft3577 Před 2 lety +43

      Do you mean stavanger in Norway?

  • @johnnorth5824
    @johnnorth5824 Před 3 lety +3982

    " I can't wait to go back Sat diving" he says with no expression and dead eyes

    • @0xg484
      @0xg484 Před 3 lety +435

      That's how a man communicates

    • @WetSouls
      @WetSouls Před 3 lety +91

      Its a hard and taxing activity. ☝🏽

    • @MrObsidus
      @MrObsidus Před 3 lety +31

      @@0xg484 """""man""""

    • @0xg484
      @0xg484 Před 3 lety +247

      @@MrObsidus Well he's no an apache attack helicopter is he?

    • @MrObsidus
      @MrObsidus Před 3 lety +124

      @@0xg484 Stale meme is stale.

  • @alanbouet-willaumez1390
    @alanbouet-willaumez1390 Před 5 lety +1267

    This is madness. Halfway between dream and nightmare

  • @chapmasi
    @chapmasi Před 2 lety +1493

    I've been a recreational diver for about 12yrs now and the deepest I've been to is about 42m........ to me and my European Dive mates (who fully understand the technicalities of this) these saturation types are like Spec Ops. It takes a special type of lunatic to take those risks. Kudos to these lads

    • @tubach1082
      @tubach1082 Před 2 lety

      Nobody cares stfu

    • @tone618
      @tone618 Před 2 lety +6

      Do you get sqeaky helium voice from the atmo?

    • @IreneWY
      @IreneWY Před 2 lety +8

      I'm also a rec diver and I have serious respect for those guys.

    • @ShoutsWillEcho1
      @ShoutsWillEcho1 Před 2 lety +32

      Im a driver and I have full disrespect for these fellas

    • @CallMeMrX
      @CallMeMrX Před 2 lety +3

      @@ShoutsWillEcho1 👌

  • @DavidHooverJr
    @DavidHooverJr Před 2 lety +205

    Thanks for the video. My father was a North Sea Pioneer Diver in the 1970s and worked for Taylor Diving & Salvage. They actually went down to 320m (1,050ft). Unfortunately, he was killed due to mechanical and human failures while completing a dive in the Skånevikfjord between Bergen and Stavanger. A Norwegian news organization, the NRK, did a documentary on the accident back in 2015 called the Deepest Dive.

    • @maxwellschmid588
      @maxwellschmid588 Před rokem +51

      old comment but even though it was decades ago sorry for the loss of your old man. This kind of work is terrifying to me and I can't imagine what kind of nerve and guts it takes to do it.

    • @mexicanreformist1522
      @mexicanreformist1522 Před 6 měsíci +6

      I can't even jump in the ocean without fear of getting bitten by a shark. Your father was a brave dude especially in the 70's when our knowledge of the ocean was so limited.

  • @genericfakename8197
    @genericfakename8197 Před 7 lety +2925

    Man I thought I was hot shit doing 80 foot dives. These guys are absolutely hardcore.

    • @dannyholden5361
      @dannyholden5361 Před 6 lety +36

      GenericFakeName haha, get diving dude. 80ft is nothing. Most of my dives are between 100-130 ft

    • @ukoctane3337
      @ukoctane3337 Před 6 lety +116

      Most of the best recreational dives happen at between 15-30m anyways. Get a deep speciality if you want to extend to 130feet or 40m in the correct measurement system :p
      (And then tec but lets face it you have to take out a loan to do tec courses lol)

    • @dh5645
      @dh5645 Před 5 lety +123

      So manny of the vibrant colors and amazing marine life is within the first 30 feet. Just say’n...

    • @josephdavis2695
      @josephdavis2695 Před 5 lety +328

      Danny Holden you missed the point. These guys go 600+ feet for almost a month at a time. So your whole pissing contest approach here is fairly invalid.

    • @cato3016
      @cato3016 Před 5 lety +33

      @@josephdavis2695 No they don't. The pressurized chamber in which they live is on the surface (on the ship), and they don't actually dive to that depth, they just take the bell down, like an elevator. Really, all they are doing is hard manual labor (albeit in dark, uncomfortable, cold conditions, with no chance of going outside for a month), not so much diving and swimming around in the truest sense of the word.

  • @nuhuh4564
    @nuhuh4564 Před 3 lety +4358

    "One bolt and two nuts weigh over 100 lbs." Uh did he just reference how big his junk is for being able to do that job?

    • @Soldier4USA2005
      @Soldier4USA2005 Před 3 lety +113

      I think so.......and I will never doubt that reference.

    • @v4v819
      @v4v819 Před 3 lety +11

      Weights zero under water don't count....

    • @KarthanRouge
      @KarthanRouge Před 3 lety +92

      @@v4v819 Imagine being that stupid.

    • @diantrecreagh3269
      @diantrecreagh3269 Před 3 lety +3

      @@KarthanRouge 😂damn

    • @yosefty5401
      @yosefty5401 Před 3 lety +13

      @@v4v819 Did it hit too Close to Home?

  • @MrAmeerga
    @MrAmeerga Před 3 lety +183

    And i complain for working 2 hours overtime.. These people are a different breed of humans. Mad respect

    • @kryssym1460
      @kryssym1460 Před 3 lety +7

      Right like damn iaint doing shit wit my life

  • @jacob2790
    @jacob2790 Před 3 lety +487

    When it comes to getting bread they've got the keys to the bakery.

    • @tacc529
      @tacc529 Před 3 lety +2

      how much do they make ?

    • @romanflores5505
      @romanflores5505 Před 3 lety

      @@tacc529 100k or more a year. Atleast.

    • @lawsonmann2057
      @lawsonmann2057 Před 3 lety +9

      @@tacc529 their daily rate can be 1500-2000 dollars

    • @hosmerhomeboy
      @hosmerhomeboy Před 3 lety +16

      @@lawsonmann2057 it oughta be more than than that. I've been paid nearly that much, for work much less dangerous.

    • @troyroberts7364
      @troyroberts7364 Před 3 lety +11

      @@hosmerhomeboy Seriously I make 60k and sit on my ass, i would need 250+ for this BS

  • @tobystewart4403
    @tobystewart4403 Před 5 lety +760

    "I love sat diving."
    These folks are off the chain, straight up. Big respect.

    • @MassHysteriaHD
      @MassHysteriaHD Před 2 lety +1

      Id rather sat dive than skydive

    • @EternalNico1
      @EternalNico1 Před 2 lety

      @@MassHysteriaHD fuck no

    • @totenfurwotan4478
      @totenfurwotan4478 Před 2 lety +13

      @@MassHysteriaHD skydiving is incredible and very safe, the vast majority of deaths are from people trying to do synchrnized acts. just a straight skydive id very safe and easily the most exciting thing you can do

    • @patrciaclemons8183
      @patrciaclemons8183 Před rokem

      Yah bro it's a 4 week long orgy down there

  • @hamsterman1995
    @hamsterman1995 Před 6 lety +1760

    This guy is my next instructor at DIT. Already met him, great guy.

    • @ramusdoyle5899
      @ramusdoyle5899 Před 4 lety +16

      You Badass

    • @jonstark2705
      @jonstark2705 Před 4 lety +20

      Is DIT worth what it costs?? I’m from Madison Wisconsin and I wanna attend the school

    • @lejamesbron4055
      @lejamesbron4055 Před 4 lety +1

      Is this seattle

    • @hamsterman1995
      @hamsterman1995 Před 4 lety +5

      @@lejamesbron4055 Yes, it is. Just north of lake union.

    • @hamsterman1995
      @hamsterman1995 Před 4 lety +23

      @@ramusdoyle5899 Honestly, the whole staff at the school is. Great people to work with. This guy especially is though honestly. Saturation divers have been described to me as I went to school as the peak of commercial diving. Not only is it crazy to dive to such deep depths, but the mental fortitude that is required to do so is amazing.

  • @myk2
    @myk2 Před rokem +29

    Nothing but absolute respect to these people. The mental and physical stamina to do this, never mind the sheer balls, unreal.

    • @ianegfp
      @ianegfp Před rokem +1

      Yes, it is amazing how many people are working so that we can simply flick on a light switch at sundown or sit at a computer and talk to people all over the world. I have the utmost gratitude for them.

  • @howey935
    @howey935 Před rokem +43

    My brother was a saturation diver in the North Sea from 1991 to 2004 and he regularly worked at 450 foot deep. He made a lot of money and well😊 deserved

    • @FilnetMgnigon
      @FilnetMgnigon Před rokem

      Any health complications from it? I see mixed things in comments so just curious

    • @howey935
      @howey935 Před rokem +2

      @@FilnetMgnigon Not that he knows of.

    • @FilnetMgnigon
      @FilnetMgnigon Před rokem +2

      @@howey935 nice good to hear

    • @jesusa.2927
      @jesusa.2927 Před rokem +1

      @@howey935how much money?

    • @howey935
      @howey935 Před rokem +5

      @jesusa.2927 He got a £90k salary then bonuses and some of the bonuses were more than his salary. His first big bonus he bought a flat nosed porshe 930 for cash.

  • @danzena4059
    @danzena4059 Před 5 lety +1521

    These are the type of men, individuals that I admire. The unsung heroes of the world. While we live in a world where everyone is hung up on social status, these are the people who make sure we have the functionality that we do in the world.
    We don't hear about them, most of us probably don't know anyone who does this line of work and they don't get much praise in the world. Unlike superficial celebrities or politicians.
    Salute to these men! There's plenty of jobs I would love to try out and experience but I don't think this is one of them. Definitely takes a different and special breed of people!

    • @MacNmey
      @MacNmey Před 3 lety +18

      Thank you.

    • @chaskatzman8015
      @chaskatzman8015 Před 3 lety +9

      fuck straight up

    • @TheOfficialBrother
      @TheOfficialBrother Před 3 lety +22

      50,000 dollars a month makes great motivation

    • @NightmareTrash88
      @NightmareTrash88 Před 3 lety +17

      @@TheOfficialBrother for some it’s good motivation. You couldn’t pay me a million dollars to do this job I mean hell you live in a ball where there is barley any leg room for 28 days I’d go crazy in just 24 hours

    • @EI_Greko
      @EI_Greko Před 3 lety +3

      @@TheOfficialBrother where do I sign up

  • @WoodysAR
    @WoodysAR Před 4 lety +3129

    I can"t believe the water level of the ocean doesn't rise, when he goes down there with his GIANT BALLS!

    • @CodyFazio
      @CodyFazio Před 4 lety +11

      Had me dyin😂

    • @johnnypk1963
      @johnnypk1963 Před 4 lety +19

      It does

    • @Superknullisch
      @Superknullisch Před 3 lety +17

      Eem.. tide goes in tide goes out..?😉

    • @frylock6403
      @frylock6403 Před 3 lety +7

      every time they let off some splooge in the ocean, people think that theyve found a group of sea monsters in the water

    • @ae4164
      @ae4164 Před 3 lety +8

      Jadon: When you drop out into the unknown, and you know that "Hey I could be the first guy-"
      Me in my head: To get eaten by a giant squid.
      Jadon: "-that's actually stood here."
      Me: This is why I work in under*ground* construction and he works under*water*, lol.

  • @dexterisabo3137
    @dexterisabo3137 Před rokem +29

    I was on a rescue/salvage ship that had a few sat divers on it but we never had to deploy them to that depth. I think two of them had qualified as sat divers but were no longer allowed to dive that deep because diving that deep to often screws up your bones. This chief told us that the repeated compression and decompression of your skeleton because of the pressure ended up giving you a condition like osteopetrosis. So the navy limited the number of times a diver was allowed to do it. Most of our divers worked with the closed helmets like the sat divers used, but they normally didnt go anywhere near that deep. I think the deepest they went was around 50 feet. A ship had sunk in the entrance to a harbor in Western Samoa and they rigged it with explosives and bounced it off the bottom a couple times until it fell off a shelf and sank into deeper water so that other ships wouldnt hit it when they came in the harbor. My shipmates and I watched/heard it from a bar at the end of the pier. Raising our beers everytime an explosion went off lol. Fun times

  • @royxrp1510
    @royxrp1510 Před rokem +4

    Hardworking man that make the world a better and more convenient place. Never to be heard from again. These are the people we need to read about in history books.

  • @onionhead5780
    @onionhead5780 Před 7 lety +623

    They are a different breed. Hats off to them.

  • @bigearedmouse17
    @bigearedmouse17 Před 7 lety +905

    "AQUANAUTS"

  • @KevinM88TR11
    @KevinM88TR11 Před 3 lety +102

    I've been in the Army, worked on oil rigs, worked on power lines and more. This would drive me absolutely mad respect to these men. 👊🏼.

  • @vondahe
    @vondahe Před 2 lety +71

    I have nothing but the deepest respect for these guys. There’s no end to the list of disadvantages, discomforts and things that can go wrong. I hope they’re paid (and insured) handsomely.

  • @peckerwood9383
    @peckerwood9383 Před 4 lety +95

    I went to underwater welding school in williamington California right after my Marine Core set was up. The best thing I ever did!! My career after that was stellar!! I went offshore right after hurricane Katrina came through in the gulf of Mexico, after a few shipyard tours I made it to Hawaii!!! "BAE" SHIP YARD,THEN pearl harbor!!! Then retired!! At age of 44(then) I can look back and truly be proud of a great life!!!!!

    • @isaac10231
      @isaac10231 Před 2 lety +18

      Retiring at 44 that sounds like a successful career to me!

    • @Celisar1
      @Celisar1 Před 2 lety +2

      How on earth can such a short working career provide anyone with enough money for the rest of his life?
      I mean you can easily have HALF of you life ahead of you at 44!

    • @Mikeplaysdbd
      @Mikeplaysdbd Před 2 lety +3

      Is it true that they get paid 1 to 4 dollars per foot googled said they make 30grand to 45 grand a month so annually around 180,000 month

    • @Clickbait86
      @Clickbait86 Před 2 lety +1

      @@Celisar1 the Philippines

    • @robertjr8205
      @robertjr8205 Před rokem +1

      You mean Wilmington right? Did you go to harbor occupational? They used to offer that? Not sure if they still do

  • @riaranta3150
    @riaranta3150 Před 5 lety +376

    CZcams recommendations hooking me up with something I ain’t never seen or heard about before 👌🏻🔥
    Rad video ❤️

    • @alexolife
      @alexolife Před 3 lety +2

      Based algorithm. I assumed it sent me this one because of all the watch videos in my history. 😂

    • @benzerba7851
      @benzerba7851 Před 3 lety

      Same here.

  • @wicklash9065
    @wicklash9065 Před 3 lety +6

    Right now im in school for welding. I plan to take underwater welding after i get my red seal. Big dreams i know, but ive lived in a small fishing community my whole life. The ocean is my home.

  • @sternritter9788
    @sternritter9788 Před rokem +2

    Can't believe we glorify astronauts who don't do shit, but don't give credit to guys like these that actually enable our lives.

  • @Barzins1
    @Barzins1 Před 6 lety +1041

    It was literally between this and law school for me. My parents pressured me to law school where I racked up a shit load of student loans and could not get a job to save my life.
    I should have chosen this.

    • @lesaustion
      @lesaustion Před 5 lety +154

      It's very unfortunate you realized you are your own person and your parents dont control you too late..

    • @deadcunt9597
      @deadcunt9597 Před 5 lety +45

      C'mon man. 300k annually. More like 500-800k if you stick with it. Or 200k max with at least that much debt? Wow.
      Well, never too late, I guess?

    • @punkitt
      @punkitt Před 4 lety +19

      I mean it ain't too late to get into it

    • @Bankable2790
      @Bankable2790 Před 4 lety +58

      Here is a humble man, and willing to share a lesson, if anyone is able to hear it.

    • @Reignor99
      @Reignor99 Před 3 lety +5

      Its a good thing you didn't.. a lawyer doesn't have the balls to endure real problems.6

  • @armedanddangerous7588
    @armedanddangerous7588 Před 6 lety +769

    These guys are the least appreciated yet do so much necessary work that common people just don't know. I'm not a diver however I appreciate what they do. I retired from the military and I am 100% disabled from wounds occurred but if I could I would like to give this a try but I cant. Hats off to the divers out there.

    • @josephdavis2695
      @josephdavis2695 Před 5 lety +55

      Hats off to you too. Don’t sell yourself short. Thanks for what you’ve done.

    • @thoth6732
      @thoth6732 Před 5 lety +26

      Thank you for your service!

    • @MacNmey
      @MacNmey Před 3 lety +10

      Thank for service. I worked with a lot of ex-military back in the 70's when I was diver in Gulf of Mexico. The best were the ex Navy Seals. Those guys were a cut above, and highly valued by diving companies in the gulf.

    • @onbored9627
      @onbored9627 Před 3 lety +9

      You've done more than enough. Good to have you home.

    • @mirrortoyourweakness9769
      @mirrortoyourweakness9769 Před 3 lety

      I'm sure you could've done it. Looks like your have the mindset and if you're a natural underwater, with the proper training you'd do great most likely.

  • @davelundergoesunder
    @davelundergoesunder Před 5 měsíci +1

    I saw this video a few months ago, and I just found it again. I'm a recreational diver, and this video blows me away! These guys are cut from a different cloth.

  • @LittleMissIssues
    @LittleMissIssues Před rokem +4

    Yes, this is what my dad did in the 60s, 70s....deeeeeeep deeeeep sea saturation and the bell, decompression! he went all over the world doing this! A lot of time in the Gulf on oil platforms, Indian Ocean, North Sea, everywhere. He would be gone for weeks and weeks at a time....I was always waiting for him to come back from the ocean!!

  • @nwebb449
    @nwebb449 Před 7 lety +473

    Was a pioneer Sat Diver in the North Sea back in 1975, 650' was my deepest. In those days they were still experimenting with gas and as helium was so expensive, one time they had us breathing neon! Great times. Also we were doing mixed gas 300' bounce dives.

    • @mikelights8106
      @mikelights8106 Před 7 lety +34

      N Webb Do you experience any long term symptoms from sat diving?

    • @indy3130
      @indy3130 Před 7 lety +7

      N Webb so does the decompression make you feel weird?

    • @nwebb449
      @nwebb449 Před 7 lety +11

      indie mutt. No

    • @SuntJack
      @SuntJack Před 6 lety +9

      N Webb damn it dude, that's awesome !

    • @austinmuir544
      @austinmuir544 Před 6 lety +22

      To anyone who is wondering. Their is a limited number of divers you can do, those all depend on your age physical strength and genetics. It honestly doesn’t matter how many dives you can do when most divers at the end of the shit walk a way with just about 300k. Side note the mixed gases are not suppose to harm you... don’t forget that cigarette where thought not to harm you either. As for what’s in the mixed gas all I can remember is helium and I believe argon, don’t quote me though.

  • @thomasloaiza2172
    @thomasloaiza2172 Před 5 lety +134

    I'm a Graduate of D.I.T. (1980)
    Started in Louisiana then Puerto Rico and on to the North Sea by means of a 2 1/2 month dive in Caracus, Venezuela.
    Deepest dive 900'
    Go Sat Divers!

    • @Nillowo
      @Nillowo Před 5 lety +5

      That’s awesome! It’s cool to see more of you guys pop up in the comments here haha

    • @Skrenja
      @Skrenja Před 4 lety +1

      Realistically what do you need to do this for a career?

    • @MacNmey
      @MacNmey Před 3 lety +12

      @@Skrenja A willingness to hardly ever be home and to remain single or probably become single if you are married. If I was to do it all over again today, I would get into the remote underwater robotics. More future in it. Get ahold of a company in Houston called Oceaneering to find out more info.

    • @MacNmey
      @MacNmey Před 3 lety +1

      @Per Johansen You don't. The guy running the dive up on deck keeps track of everything. When he says times up, leave bottom, you leave bottom.

    • @MechanicalAddict
      @MechanicalAddict Před 3 lety +1

      @Goushtinkla Van Goh USD $70,000 per month

  • @powerofdvd5476
    @powerofdvd5476 Před 2 lety +99

    Knew a guy who worked off the coast of south africa doing this. He and his 2 co workers were near the bed of the ocean when they found diamonds. Needless to say, he retired incredibly early.

  • @lab35982
    @lab35982 Před 11 měsíci +5

    I trained at the Coastal School of Deep Sea Diving in 1978. Had no topside trade so I joined the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and became an Underwater Recovery Diver looking for a recovering dead bodies. Over 4o years later I am still an active diver!

  • @FlatlandMando
    @FlatlandMando Před 4 lety +149

    Just fascinating And also it never gets old to hear an adult human being talk about how they made the right choice in life & love their work & can't wait to get back to it...this is the real message

    • @carpediem7654
      @carpediem7654 Před 2 lety +8

      Work sucks dude. Nobody likes doing their job, they just like the fat paychecks. Reduce their pay by half and see how many stick around.

    • @areoladan5580
      @areoladan5580 Před rokem +1

      Yeah I’m betting the main reason he loves his job is because he gets paid hundreds of dollars per hour for it, even when just sitting in the capsule hangin out with his buddies.

    • @Xyz46786
      @Xyz46786 Před rokem +1

      Do you know much money this dude makes give me a break

    • @guybaehr8124
      @guybaehr8124 Před rokem +7

      If he says he loves his work, why don't you believe him? He's not you. You're not him. Don't feel threatened. Different strokes for different folks, as they used to say.

    • @omnacky
      @omnacky Před rokem +6

      @@carpediem7654 Work can be meaningful and fascinating. It feels good to be useful to society

  • @raphaellauf7786
    @raphaellauf7786 Před 5 lety +487

    I know this is serious but I just imagine one of them saying some really technical stuff but with the helium voice I'm just dying of laughter

    • @Reignor99
      @Reignor99 Před 3 lety +19

      That's because you lack the intelligence to be a productive member of society.
      You will reproduce, leech taxpayer money, and be selfish for the rest of your life.
      Or maybe you'll grow up and be useful.
      Who knows?

    • @eliyahuohiyon7461
      @eliyahuohiyon7461 Před 3 lety +162

      @@Reignor99 says the person replying to a year old comment

    • @Arius_Astronomy
      @Arius_Astronomy Před 3 lety +164

      @@Reignor99 Hey world! Look at this guy being a productive member of society by insulting people on the internet!

    • @herbderbler1585
      @herbderbler1585 Před 3 lety +115

      @@Reignor99 it's nice that you're taking time out of your busy schedule of being a productive member of society to make sure everyone is as humorless and miserable as you.

    • @myhatzulu
      @myhatzulu Před 3 lety +51

      @@Reignor99 I pity you

  • @AdamJWM
    @AdamJWM Před 2 lety +44

    I graduated from DIT in April 2004 class of September 2003. Jason Anderson was one of my instructors. Jason was awesome and exactly the type of guy you will meet when you get out into the real world. DIT is definitely known as the “shit” as far as schools go. I wanted to be a Salty deep sea diver since I was a little kid and DIT will give you a good understanding of what you need to know. Once you get offshore is a whole new level.

    • @gagesterboy
      @gagesterboy Před rokem +2

      how is the industry? is the work consistent? are you working for a union?

    • @wirelessone2986
      @wirelessone2986 Před rokem +1

      Whats the weirdest thing you ha e ever seen down there?

    • @wahmodijiwah4201
      @wahmodijiwah4201 Před rokem

      @@wirelessone2986 i once saw an octopussy live inside a condom

  • @fratercontenduntocculta8161

    It truly is being an astronaut on earth. I love everything to do with ocean exploration.

  • @schlaznger8049
    @schlaznger8049 Před 7 lety +584

    not for the claustrophobic

    • @Tricknutting
      @Tricknutting Před 7 lety +24

      Dat money Doe?

    • @Chester41585
      @Chester41585 Před 7 lety +33

      Oh, they're swimmin' in it.

    • @thordan1630
      @thordan1630 Před 7 lety +8

      Just Googled it, it says £1000 a day which is a lot

    • @JifeLacket
      @JifeLacket Před 7 lety +11

      Usually works out to a bit over 6 figures. They take at least a month off (the guy in the video was 28 days on, 2 months off).

    • @1969cmp
      @1969cmp Před 5 lety +1

      That rules me out.

  • @danielshaw4038
    @danielshaw4038 Před 3 lety +29

    I was assigned to a U.S. Navy Saturation Diving ship in the Late Seventies
    Those SAT Divers were the Breed Apart from the Breed Apart. Nothing but Respect for these men. Go Navy!

  • @marcusjohansson8902
    @marcusjohansson8902 Před 2 lety +2

    It’s actually kind of NUTS that we are building all the way down the water like that 😂

  • @AsianManZan
    @AsianManZan Před 2 lety +1

    Jadon Anderson is good shit. He was my instructor and is currently my boss. Great guy all around.

  • @SoutheastanglerLLC
    @SoutheastanglerLLC Před 5 lety +235

    It's crazy to me that humans even know this is what you have to do to go that deep.

    • @FlagnarBoobz
      @FlagnarBoobz Před 3 lety +8

      my literal exact thoughts

    • @saneledlamini1223
      @saneledlamini1223 Před 3 lety +46

      Trial and error mostly

    • @swampdonkey1567
      @swampdonkey1567 Před 2 lety +7

      The barotrauma wasnt usually fatal(though crippling is another story) but pressure has been know about for a long time think about Artimetis and then Pascal. I'd imagine before any deep diving was attempted they already knew about alot this stuff (though think baro trauma sickness was a thing early one but I don't think it was at the depths to permantly cripple or kill you).

    • @chaz693
      @chaz693 Před 2 lety +11

      They learned the hard after all those guys died building the Brooklyn bridge.

    • @eoingaskin
      @eoingaskin Před 2 lety +10

      Sacrifices. An untold amount of sacrifices throughout history.

  • @mike2652
    @mike2652 Před 4 lety +31

    No wonder these guys get paid so much. You really gotta know what you’re doing and stay level-headed no matter what.

  • @Chrisamos412
    @Chrisamos412 Před 3 lety +2

    Graduated in 1986....I was there when our school was a barge. One morning before heading to school, drinking coffee, watching the news...lo and behold, there’s DIT, I should say there it wasn’t! It was struck by a tugboat or something, but the best part was salvaging it, that was a blast.! Excellent school...best wishes to the staff and all past and future divers!

  • @fr4120
    @fr4120 Před 3 lety +94

    In the meantime, me sit on the couch with my cat:
    “Damn the remote is fucking over there again”

  • @styrofoamx229
    @styrofoamx229 Před 4 lety +161

    Damn this is one of the most hardcore things I’ve ever seen. 28 days underwater at insane pressures gaddamn!

    • @johnkoss6473
      @johnkoss6473 Před 4 lety +5

      No 28 days under extreme pressure - 12 hour shifts under water. They are coming up between shifts.

    • @styrofoamx229
      @styrofoamx229 Před 4 lety +26

      Jeb Goes no they work 12 hour shifts then go into their chamber to sleep and rest. They fully de-pressurize after 28 days. And it’s done at different levels in different durations

    • @wendilisblue
      @wendilisblue Před 3 lety

      Yeah so like 28 under then how many days depressurizing? Wouldn’t that be almost four months ?

    • @critic8307
      @critic8307 Před 3 lety +2

      @@styrofoamx229 they go into the pressure chamber up to the ship, not under water.

    • @dd212NYC
      @dd212NYC Před 3 lety +2

      @@critic8307 how do they eat / go to the bathroom? Is that all in the pressure chamber? They clearly can’t leave the chamber..

  • @dragonmaid1360
    @dragonmaid1360 Před 6 lety +24

    Wow just wow. As an ex-diver many years ago I'm totally blown away by what this guy is saying. He must have iron balls to be that brave. Something goes wrong down there and your chances of survival would be very Slim. Lion an absolute lion

  • @McKayPorter
    @McKayPorter Před 2 lety +2

    “You’re looking for something you can’t see until you run into it.” That thought, while deep underwater, is terrifying.

  • @brianhartman7135
    @brianhartman7135 Před 3 lety +9

    Absolutely amazing how tough these guys are. Nothing but respect to these guys pushing their bodies like this. Wow.

  • @Brother_frojd
    @Brother_frojd Před 5 lety +21

    Pursuing this career right now. Currently getting my commercial diving certificates at NYD in Norway. And once am done with 100 hours of diving I will do the saturation dive course at the same school. This is my dream job and am sure as hell gonna end up succeeding in obtaining a job as a sat diver.

    • @monki9941
      @monki9941 Před rokem +1

      did you succeed?

    • @Xterminatorr
      @Xterminatorr Před rokem

      Bro you have my greatest respect going into this job. I can't endure that intense pressure, shortness feeling of breath, insensitivity of your body because of the numbness (cold), and poor visibility while also knowing your life is on the line. I've heard stories about the people experiencing the most painful deaths here in the past. My deepest condolences to them.

    • @clear.5999
      @clear.5999 Před rokem +1

      How'd it go

    • @midnull6009
      @midnull6009 Před 11 měsíci

      no reply so probably didn't make it, lol@@clear.5999

    • @mettflow2648
      @mettflow2648 Před 10 měsíci +2

      @@clear.5999 he dead

  • @keithdavis4626
    @keithdavis4626 Před 5 lety +3

    Mental toughness is definitely the key in this job

  • @trentlomelino
    @trentlomelino Před 3 lety +7

    I wish someone when I was younger pointed out this job and I figured out my path to do it. It's wild.

  • @carlsjr7362
    @carlsjr7362 Před 3 lety +17

    I feel like an astronaut in the ocean .

  • @lmcc8798
    @lmcc8798 Před 5 lety +14

    Thank you guys for doing this so we have utilities! That’s a lot of commitment!

  • @junglebrutalitydeath
    @junglebrutalitydeath Před 5 lety +392

    At those Depths, I can only imagine the stuff you see. Giant sharks, Sea Serpents, Mermaids, U.S.O.’s, etc.. all kinds of demonic stuff can come out of the darkness in that environment.

    • @FrostedSeagull
      @FrostedSeagull Před 5 lety +37

      You're right jungleB...,
      The stories are remarkable and most don't talk about what they've seen. Apparently, the so-called Keepers of the Deep are the strangest.

    • @otisjacksonjunior9795
      @otisjacksonjunior9795 Před 4 lety +9

      @thanksgiving I understand your point. However, you vastly overestimate our ability to "see" the universe, whether in the literal sense or in terms of information we can glean from our understanding of what distant radiation patterns indicate about the objects and processes that give rise to them. The sheer enormity of space makes any comparison with our oceans absurd. I just thought it was funny the way you nonchalantly said that bit about us having seen "most" of space, lol. Obviously didn't take it literally, just having a laff m8.

    • @Pearg0ld
      @Pearg0ld Před 4 lety +37

      I mean if I were a whale Id be saying wtf is he doing down here

    • @DaHighRoad
      @DaHighRoad Před 3 lety +4

      @@FrostedSeagull what are those?

    • @duaneross9271
      @duaneross9271 Před 3 lety +13

      Some of those wet welders won't dive again because of wired shit they seen. Check out the video where like he was talking about 4 guys living in a pressurized tank for 28 days. Saves the oil companies bucks so they don't decompress every day. Like the old days.

  • @orangeapple681
    @orangeapple681 Před 2 lety +8

    Mad respect, you guys deserve every penny of that money. I'll keep my boring job on shore gentlemen. Stay safe and alert out there.

  • @prg937
    @prg937 Před 3 lety +2

    Dude f*cking loves his job. True passion right there... Makes you wonder.

  • @N.I.R.A.T.I.A.S.
    @N.I.R.A.T.I.A.S. Před 5 lety +5

    I'm impressed with the guys who communicate with the sat divers on the radio. I work with radio in my job and some people are frigging tough to decipher. Would hate to do it with someone who's been breathing helium for three weeks.

    • @scottcrook6530
      @scottcrook6530 Před 4 lety +2

      The radio has a helium descrambler that adds bass to their voices.

  • @area51r
    @area51r Před 6 lety +4

    my brother just graduated in june 17 from this school. the graduation ceremony was really nice the campus was awesome. d.i.t. is something to be proud of. looking forward to more videos

  • @commandingnationsintl7792
    @commandingnationsintl7792 Před 3 lety +11

    Me at welding school: "Ain't gettin' ME inside that pipe."
    This guy: Inside the pipe at 600+ ft for 28 days + 4.
    Me:

  • @FlatlandMando
    @FlatlandMando Před 7 lety +3

    You guys that do this work are amazing. Thanks for the info. about this field. "Stay safe."

  • @kodimah8577
    @kodimah8577 Před 2 lety +4

    The definition of mad lads. Absolute respect for you guys.

  • @lashonearl6548
    @lashonearl6548 Před rokem +1

    Thank You to all of you brave men!!!Thank You all for all you do much respect to all of you!!!!!!!!

  • @killawatt8243
    @killawatt8243 Před 3 lety +2

    Diving is so awesome. It is like another world underwater ! In some situations you can even hear your heart beat it’s so soothing

  • @theexchipmunk
    @theexchipmunk Před 7 lety +23

    This is pretty similar to how working in space in the future would look. With the exception that this is actually more dangerous in some cases.

  • @Thorny5718
    @Thorny5718 Před 4 lety +7

    What a great job, I’d genuinely love to do that kind of work.
    Awesome video lads, thank you.

  • @oldwardrobeexperiment
    @oldwardrobeexperiment Před 9 měsíci

    Incredibly educational. Really love this because the style reminds me of the old Discovery Channel documentaries. I can't even imagine however what it must feel like to have the qualities to do this. Biggest respect for these guys!

  • @CranberryApple600
    @CranberryApple600 Před 3 lety +1

    Wow that’s some serious preparation and crazy work environment

  • @ThatGuy-ou4ev
    @ThatGuy-ou4ev Před 5 lety +7

    after 5 years of doing this job, you could retire early. I knew a guy from school who went to do this. After coming back from first 6 months on the job he got a brand new sports car, a small house and fully furnished it. Never kept contact though.

    • @danielbroomhall8882
      @danielbroomhall8882 Před 3 lety

      Stop lying, mate. These are all myths. The normal pay for someone right after the course is around 50k yearly. Then, only after 5 years and after knowing the right people, you might get $1,400 a day but that is not in every job, so it is uncertain how much u will make.

  • @boodang100
    @boodang100 Před 5 lety +3

    I really appreciate these guys for the jobs that they do

  • @evinchester7820
    @evinchester7820 Před rokem +1

    When I dove the deepest I went was 100 feet.
    And because the lake we were in was low, we were able to get to areas that were it full, wouldn't have done.
    I'm older now.
    I might dive to say 50 feet or 60, but nothing beyond that.
    I'm sure they are well paid.
    But as my dive instructor told us, "If you are cold, and not having fun, you need to be paid to do it."
    I looked at being an Army diver way back when, but what he said stuck with me.
    I'd get hazardous duty pay, but to be honest with you, it really want' enough.

  • @cmomofilm
    @cmomofilm Před rokem +1

    I work offshore in O&G and we have these guys on our rig a lot, they make really good money, even by offshore O&G standards however from what they've told me sat diving decreases their life expectancy significantly. A quote from one of their crew was "none of us are seeing 70".

  • @focusthru
    @focusthru Před 7 lety +3

    That's hard core brother, thanks for posting.

  • @Nickgowans
    @Nickgowans Před 4 lety +5

    I always used to think that these things were intended to resist positive pressure, but actually they are designed to maintain dive pressure. Fascinating

    • @glywnniswells9480
      @glywnniswells9480 Před 2 lety

      Yep until they come up to the boat and contain the huge pressure they bleed it slowly out over days ti decomprrss them

  • @stallagiardino7877
    @stallagiardino7877 Před 3 lety +1

    How times change! Only 6 hour bell runs..We used to do minimum of 10 / 12 hours, sometimes 16 + hours..This in the late 1970’s Norwegian sector with Subsea and Comex. I was commercial diving between 1973 and 1983, North Sea, with a few trips to Saudi, India and Brazil.

  • @GM-fx2jo
    @GM-fx2jo Před rokem +1

    worked with a guy who was ex navy diver and did saturation diving in the North Sea.....that's a tough job with high risk....all the credit is deserved with these guys.

  • @callianne666
    @callianne666 Před 3 lety +12

    I watched Last Breath and now I can't stop obsessing over sat diving and how fucking insane it is.

  • @TheKevzx6r
    @TheKevzx6r Před 7 lety +57

    Fuck that respect though

  • @rywolf01
    @rywolf01 Před 2 lety +1

    Man! I wished I'd seen this in my twenties! This sounds like an intriguing opportunity for a lifelong career seeing the world.

  • @kevwallace6628
    @kevwallace6628 Před 3 lety +1

    You have to be a special person to go down there. Smart, tough, no fear... and love it

  • @carlsaischa
    @carlsaischa Před 3 lety +6

    Hardest part would be not laughing myself to death at my crewmate's chipmunk voices from the high pressure.

  • @nct948
    @nct948 Před 2 lety +5

    fascinating. We forget the incredible engineering that sustains our way of life and which can only be implemented thanks to people in such hazardous jobs as these deep sea technicians. Few of us could live in such un-natural conditions, cramped space and no sun light. Thank you to you and respect.

  • @smckay6438
    @smckay6438 Před 2 lety +1

    Learnd to dive at 8 in mexico in 1969 then got certified at 11 in 72 ! When you had to memorize the dive table!
    Its was very soothing and good for me and my physical therapy as a legally blind man !
    If you get a chance , you will never forget it !

  • @Protaneum
    @Protaneum Před 2 lety

    Never ceases to amaze me - the amount, and extremes, of activities and environments that humans can engage in.

  • @ducamuk
    @ducamuk Před 5 lety +5

    Mad respect for saturation divers. ✌️

  • @DamagedF0X
    @DamagedF0X Před 5 lety +4

    I've seen a few diff vids of this and have to argue that this might be one of the most extreme jobs ever.

  • @marshallakins1987
    @marshallakins1987 Před 3 lety

    Thanks for all you do.

  • @fredfred3855
    @fredfred3855 Před 3 lety

    man, you are a bloody hero and i salute you.

  • @JSMFMS
    @JSMFMS Před 5 lety +3

    That’s pretty cool, I didn’t even have an idea that this existed. Those guys are awesome

  • @waynearrington6727
    @waynearrington6727 Před rokem +3

    As a helicopter pilot in the Gulf of Mexico in the late 70s I sometimes flew out to dive boats. The story that I was told most often was that these guys had a 10 year or so working life before they got too bent to continue diving. The goal was to make enough money in that amount of time to buy and equip their own dive boat and bid contracts and then let someone else do the diving while they supervised. I wonder if it is still like that.

  • @nrw34260
    @nrw34260 Před rokem +2

    I was a Sat diver in the 70s in the NorthSea. Diving up to 630ft. Would spend a month in Sat. We were on £5k a month while in Sat. We never thought about any dangers then although I went through several near misses.

  • @scottmcmaster4927
    @scottmcmaster4927 Před rokem

    I am glad there are people who enjoy this sort of work. I wouldn't be able to take that claustrophobic environment for so long.

  • @goodshipkaraboudjan
    @goodshipkaraboudjan Před 3 lety +5

    He's correct. As an Aussie, go through the course in Tasmania or you go home and dream. If you know you know.

  • @mintakaviatoripatuit6714
    @mintakaviatoripatuit6714 Před 7 lety +10

    I respect what these people do for us.

    • @XIIIStefanC
      @XIIIStefanC Před 4 lety

      laying down oil pipes which is killing our planets yea deep respect :D

    • @ChrisRigling
      @ChrisRigling Před rokem

      @@XIIIStefanC the same oil to help run the world’s transportation and energy. Lol

  • @lisamcevoy6221
    @lisamcevoy6221 Před 2 lety

    These guys are unbelievably brave, what a job.

  • @nickkearney6282
    @nickkearney6282 Před 3 lety

    What a career. What amazing work and resilience being in space,at earth. A different world, and wowderful . Aroha from down under...

  • @woofdog4219
    @woofdog4219 Před 7 lety +28

    Its Todd Hoffman from Gold Rush successful brother