Chris Lemons was a saturation diver for 10 years working on oil fields on the North Sea floor. Now, Lemons is a supervisor, who gives instructions to divers and is responsible for keeping them alive.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lead image: (Deep-sea diver welding underwater. Credit: SvedOliver / Shutterstock.) Chris Lemons, a saturation diver from England, ...

The provider of comprehensive services to oil and maritime companies, Chet Morrison Contractors (Morrison) has acquired two pipelay/construction barges and a saturation diving system from an ...

Whether you like your co-workers or not, can you imagine spending 24 hours a day with them for weeks on end? Probably not, but that's what saturation divers -- who live in pressurized chambers for ...

In "Last Breath," an incredible human story makes for a so-so movie. This is a story of saturation divers, a highly specialized field of diving that requires days of decompression to regulate the body ...

Saturation divers, working one at a time, are nearing the end of a repair project on a pumped-storage hydroelectric system at Horse Mesa Dam on the Salt River in central Arizona. The repair will ...

In an instant, the compressed air inside the chamber explosively decompressed, violently tearing through the confined space. Four divers were killed immediately, their bodies subjected to forces far ...

With a movie screen as black as night, audiences sit in darkness hearing the faint bubbles of a deep-sea diver breathing underwater. The sound is barely audible, though it captures more loneliness and ...

NAVAL SUPPORT ACTIVITY PANAMA CITY — Since Monday, hyperbaric doctor Brad Hickey has been isolated from the outside world. Hickey and five others began a 500-foot descent Monday in the Ocean ...

Norwegian offshore supply vessel operator DOF Group has secured two subsea contract awards in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region.The first of the recent subsea service contracts secured in the APAC region ...