Descending Into Worse Stuff: Saturation Diving

This week, Melanie and Brianne contemplate mortality, Melanie crosses her legs to keep Baby John Mellencamp in, a cryptid has an elaborate backstory, we're joined in the studio by fourteen badass ghosts drinking beers, Brianne loves atmospheric trains, we all learn about saturation diving together, YouTube crowns the most gruesome death imaginable, and Melanie has disaster-themed maternity photos.

SHOW NOTES

Content warnings: death/mortality, claustrophobia, drowning deaths, very vague mention of suicide risk at 58:48, extremely graphic description of gore/dismemberment 1:11:10-1:21:31.

Links:
16 Terrifying Scuba Accidents That Will Make You Think Twice About Diving
Avascular necrosis
Blowout preventer
Decompression sickness
Drill Master diving accident
How does saturation diving work?
Nitrogen Narcosis
Saturation diving
Saturation Diving
Saturation Divers Live Under the Sea for Weeks | World's Strangest
Saturation Diving | North Sea oil | Dangerous jobs | TV Eye | 1981
Saturation Diving- You're in a different world
Saturation Diving Salary Breakdown: What Can You Earn Annually?
Scuba Q & A: Common Questions Asked By Nondivers
Star Canopus diving accident
The Most Gruesome Death Imaginable: The Byford Dolphin Accident
The Science of Breathing Underwater
The Weird, Dangerous, Isolated Life of the Saturation Diver
Under pressure: my job as a deep sea saturation diver
Understanding Nitrogen Narcosis (The Rapture Of The Deep)
Venture One diving accident
What It's Like to be a Saturation Diver
Wildrake diving accident