Saturation Diving | North Sea oil | Dangerous jobs | TV Eye | 1981

Thames Televisions 'TV Eye' filmed some of the oil industries Saturation Divers at work - one of the most dangerous jobs in the oil industry.
First shown: 1981
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[@jamiehughes4305]

This is my dad. Barry Hughes. He died in 2010 aged 60

[@mickeydodds1]

I wanted to see more of that film.

[@JJVernig]

Were there longterm effects of this kind of work? It seems dangerous, with that kind of airmixture for a week!!

[@ToaHat]

There can be, depending on a man's physical and mental attributes. That was one big reason I wasn't interested in sat diving, and preferred to stay with inshore and deep air work; heard some stories of what occasionally comes about after years in sat work. The wages aren't so high for no reason!

[@dani5422]

Most likely cancer

[@ToaHat]

Looks like an Oceaneering job.

[@EdwardThomas-u6g]

I was there

[@bgajeske]

Making that depth pay

[@sparklessconnectionselectrical]

500 pounds a week? I hope this video is at least 40 years old.

[@jamiehughes4305]

1981

[@sparklessconnectionselectrical]

@@jamiehughes4305 phew, back then it would have been respectable dough. Today not worth rolling out of bed even for a day...

[@Azrael1st]

💀 North Sea 💀

[@solarr2]

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