Inside the life of a deep sea saturation diver, one of the most dangerous and isolated jobs in the world
When he's not playing golf or spending time with his wife and two daughters, Chris Lemons is living in a small pressurized chamber at the bottom of a boat, hundreds of meters below the surface of the sea.
"They all seemed like enigmas a little bit," Lemons said about seeing saturation divers emerge from their chamber."They probably turned up in fancier cars than me on the key side as well, so that was an appeal. Very quickly, I thought that's what I'd love to do." "I've always found it's a great leveler of people because you get people coming in with egos and whatever and it doesn't last very long because you're brutally exposed everyday when you're working," he told Insider.He continued:"It's quite a monastic way of living because you are in those chambers, so you don't have any access to alcohol, you're exercising every single day because you're working in the water.
Lemons said he can talk to his family while living in the chamber because he has access to internet and telephones, but his voice is affected by the depth the divers live at and the helium in the chamber. "There's no circumnavigating that four days of decompression," Lemons said."If you break your leg or your mother dies, it doesn't make a difference, you still have to do four days of decompression."
"It's really a routine, you basically do the same thing at the same time, every single day," Lemons said.
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