Saturation Divers: 6 Hours of Work, 5 Days to Get Out | Survival Documentary

Survival documentary: six men live 28 days inside a steel chamber on a ship's deck, breathing helium at the pressure of 330 feet of seawater. This is how saturation divers eat, sleep and survive until the door can safely open. CHAPTERS 0:00 Survival documentary: six men, one steel tube 1:19 Saturation diving: what they are sealed inside 2:42 What saturation divers eat: food through a hatch 3:52 How saturation divers sleep: sleeping in shifts 5:09 Saturation diving work: down to the seabed 6:37 Life in a decompression chamber: waiting and calling home 7:34 Saturation diving decompression: why they cannot just leave 8:57 Byford Dolphin 1983: a saturation diving accident 9:52 Bibby Topaz 2012: a saturation diver loses his air 11:18 Saturation diving today: the job 12:14 Survival documentary: the other side of the hatch This survival documentary is part of Sealed Shift. Subscribe and turn on notifications to see life on the other side of more hatches, and leave a like if this episode kept you watching. More from Sealed Shift: How South Pole winter crews survive 8 months locked in:    • Living in Antarctica: 8 Months Where No Pl...   How astronauts survive 6 months sealed above Earth:    • How Astronauts Sleep on the ISS: 16 Sunris...   Next in our survival documentary series: thirty-three miners sealed in by rock instead of water, sixty-nine days, nearly half a mile underground.    • Chilean Miners: 69 Days Trapped 2,300 Feet...   Saturation diving is skilled work done under strict medical rules and with trained supervisors. This video is for information only. It is not training and not medical advice. IMAGE CREDITS (Creative Commons, as the licenses require; photos via Wikimedia Commons): Training wet bell gas panel P4234304.JPG — Pbsouthwood — CC BY-SA 3.0 ByfordDolphinAtInvergordon2008.jpg — Josef Pavlik — CC BY-SA 3.0 Bibby Topaz (26934156014).jpg — Alan Jamieson from Aberdeen, Scotland — CC BY 2.0 Bibby Topaz (16082856285).jpg — Alan Jamieson from Aberdeen, Scotland — CC BY 2.0 Mina San José de Copiapó en 2010.jpg — desierto_atacama — CC BY-SA 2.0 Bibby Topaz (27471431571).jpg — Alan Jamieson from Aberdeen, Scotland — CC BY 2.0 Schachtzeichen Flaschenreihe01.jpg — NatiSythen — CC BY-SA 3.0 Byford Dolphin Drill Rig @ Harland & Wolff Shipyard Belfast, 20th of February 2015.JPG — Nathan G. Lawrence — CC BY-SA 4.0 Comex.jpg — Abderrahman Chayadmi — CC BY-SA 4.0 All other photographs are public domain: U.S. Navy and Army, NASA, NOAA and other U.S. federal agencies (via DVIDS and Wikimedia Commons). FOOTAGE: archive films and videos by the U.S. Navy (Sealab II, Sealab III, Deep Diving: Medical & Physical Background, DIVERCON 1), NEDU, DVIDS, NOAA and NASA NEEMO/Aquarius, all public domain. Explainer scenes (the sealed system, helium, 24 hours, the way home) are illustrations drawn for this video. FACT SOURCES (selection): DMAC 21 Rev. 2 (28-day guidance) - Imbert et al. 2018, Frontiers in Psychology - medical case report of the 2012 Bibby Topaz incident, PMC8956028 - Norwegian official inquiry into the 1983 Byford Dolphin accident - Hakai Magazine - DAN - U.S. Navy Experimental Diving Unit - Comex. The narration of this survival documentary uses an AI voice. The script was written and checked by a person; where a number is an estimate, the narration says so. If you have worked in saturation and something is wrong, tell us in the comments and we will correct it. Sealed Shift: survival documentary from inside places you cannot walk out of. #survivaldocumentary #saturationdiving #decompressionchamber