#Underwater welders have to use a tool that carries as much #electricity as a powerline. #welding

Commercial Diver here. In the US we don't weld using scuba, we use helmets that have wired comms so we can communicate with our tenders up top. Topside has a switch which can take the current to and away from your welding stinger. Doing this with hand gestures indeed makes it seem much more risky 😂

The second diver isn't there just to assist. He is there playing bodyguard. The UV light attracts other animals including sharks.

*has one of the most dangerous jobs in the world * communicates through random hand gestures with some squigglies and not sign language

As if this job wasn't already SUPER dangerous... 😬😱😱

This is by no means the most dangerous thing about underwater welding, but still dangerous! 😂

A couple of big inaccuracies in this.

Welders would die every day by the hundreds if this were true.

I hate this narrator, it sounds like she’s complaining about something by the tone of her voice in every sentence

Yeah im sure the rubberized suit and the fact electricity takes the path of least resistance is enough to make electric shock the issue the bigger issue is the umbilical failing, sharks, or massive waves slamming them into the structures they are welding.

May God bless and protect them

Okay, no. It's not even the top 40 on "most dangerous jobs". Is it dangerous? Yes, absolutely. You know what else is dangerous? A fry cook. Electronic engineer here, working with high ampere/wattage lines, or "hot" lines, is 100% dangerous, BUT, you just don't put yourself in line on contact. People that work with actual live lines on land has a far higher chance at death, as "earth ground" is a thing. Some lines will melt through the isolated shoes that you wear, almost like they were nonexistent. For this diver to be at risk, he would have to be in the line of arc, WHICH would travel through to the plate, not through his body. The residual burn from the arc would suck, and can kill, but lot less risky in comparison to ANYONE ELSE that works with live lines. It's an interesting job, but don't make bullshit claims, thanks a bunch.

"if you touch an electrically charged spot, you'd die in and instant." So exactly the same as any other kind of electrical work?

I passed up an opportunity to do underwater welding in Alaska. I was afraid of the ocean.

Fun fact there’s a much more extreme version called deep sea welding, also known as saturation diving

Has there ever been a single woman in history that has done this job or even wanted to? No, they’d all rather have an overpaid office job in a bloated bureaucracy

First clip of the guy literally holding the rod “If they touch the tip of the gun they will instantly die”

I've been shocked by a welder multiple times and have not died. Just touching the tip would likely not kill you.

I can’t speak for welding underwater but if you grab the two electrodes when welding you’re not gonna die from it because your floating and water doesn’t change that aspect, you would have to be grounded through Water for electrocution not swimming in it. In theory, yes a person can be electrocuted, and or die from that electrocution that’s the likelihood of that happening is rather low. The people in accurate facts like this narrator does not have confidence that they know anything and question their motives research and even their ability to understand normal thinking.

Ya so no, cuz for them to die it would have to go through their heart, in normal welding yes if you get zapped by a tig torch you should probably go go the hospital but with stick rods underwater and wearing a protective suit, they’re pretty safe other than from animals and waves. The current will take the path of least resistance and go through the water to complete the circuit

We really just let anybody "report" nowadays huh. Real credible shit