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Originally Posted by jclevoy
Just thought you might like to know.............do you have any idea how few people dive deeper than 300m these days?? More people have walked on the moon, than to dive to these depths today. Due to costs that are prohibitive, and the perfection of ROVs and atmospheric diving suits.........There is just not a need for divers to risk injury diving to extreme depths.
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ROV's are ok but are normally sat on deck broken and they can still not work in very poor vis or do the heavy construction work. The really deep Oilfields are set up for ROV intervention (ie very deep) but most old fields are not so the good old diver is sent down to get on with it. It normally takes an ROV 10 hours to complete something that would take a Diver 5 mins!!
Now 1 ATM suits are pretty rare, we hardly ever hear of this being employed in the Oil Fields but I would love to have a go in one.