Enjoy this story from 1997 about a lost cotter pin leading to a helicopter narrowly being saved by a man with Leatherman tool standing on the skid!
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# ? Oct 19, 2019 16:27 |
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# ? May 15, 2024 03:26 |
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chitoryu12 posted:Enjoy this story from 1997 about a lost cotter pin leading to a helicopter narrowly being saved by a man with Leatherman tool standing on the skid! The fact that they got back on that helicopter after all that is mind boggling. Id never ride a helicopter again.
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# ? Oct 19, 2019 16:40 |
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SpaceCadetBob posted:The fact that they got back on that helicopter after all that is mind boggling. Id never ride a helicopter again. The guy who held the whole thing together got a ride back in the truck.
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# ? Oct 19, 2019 16:44 |
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gonna nope right the gently caress out reading that. not when I'm occasionally in helicopters for work. nope nope nope
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# ? Oct 19, 2019 17:07 |
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Meanwhile in Russia, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-19/dam-collapse-at-siberia-gold-mine-in-russia-leaves-12-dead quote:At least 15 people died when a dam collapsed at a gold mine in Russia’s Krasnoyarsk region Oh, and now they're testing the river for mercury.
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# ? Oct 19, 2019 17:31 |
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I’m guessing because they’re college cheerleaders or band members or whatever driving the wagon that they’re not subject to a lot of safety protocols. Like how to drive good. https://twitter.com/bryandfischer/status/1185605515012784128?s=21
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# ? Oct 19, 2019 18:40 |
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If that's the same type of chuck wagon they use for racing at rodeos, I guess they are meant to be driven on loose dirt rather than grass.
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# ? Oct 19, 2019 18:45 |
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Cojawfee posted:If that's the same type of chuck wagon they use for racing at rodeos, I guess they are meant to be driven on loose dirt rather than grass. They're meant to slowly convey someone with dysentery to Oregon, then wash down the river after fording the river when it's too high
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# ? Oct 19, 2019 19:16 |
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CannonFodder posted:That's a great demonstration of potential energy stored in metal. What's the more scientific term? Spring tension? "Metal As gently caress"
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# ? Oct 19, 2019 19:34 |
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https://i.imgur.com/kaxQAuy.mp4
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# ? Oct 19, 2019 21:02 |
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They have the blinkers on what else do you want
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# ? Oct 19, 2019 21:14 |
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All My Friends Know the Low Rider
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# ? Oct 20, 2019 00:18 |
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Memento posted:All The low ride er has a little loader.
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# ? Oct 20, 2019 00:22 |
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I found a bird inside of a belt guard today, both legs tragically amputated, very dead. Bird failed to follow several extremely important safety practices. Bird defeated a belt guard designed to prevent contact with moving parts by intentionally entering through a small opening on the backside of the guard. Bird did not use lock out tag out before beginning work in a moving part area. Bird did not inform anyone that he was intending to begin work on the equipment. Bird was not wearing any PPE. Every step of this tragedy represents a major non-adherence to company safety policies. We will never know why bird chose to take these risks upon himself, but it is a reminder that complacency kills.
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# ? Oct 20, 2019 00:29 |
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EvenWorseOpinions posted:I found a bird inside of a belt guard today, both legs tragically amputated, very dead. Bird failed to follow several extremely important safety practices. Technically it was in a confined space, so no spotter or permit either! We need a safety stand down and an expert in bird law
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# ? Oct 20, 2019 00:47 |
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chitoryu12 posted:Enjoy this story from 1997 about a lost cotter pin leading to a helicopter narrowly being saved by a man with Leatherman tool standing on the skid! This was posted a billion pages ago, but it’s loving amazing and worth a watch again
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# ? Oct 20, 2019 01:21 |
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Someone please do the math on how high that car would jump if you could instantly delete all that poo poo on the roof.
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# ? Oct 20, 2019 01:43 |
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Cojawfee posted:Someone please do the math on how high that car would jump if you could instantly delete all that poo poo on the roof. *fires up Beam.NG and sets gravity to negative earth*
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# ? Oct 20, 2019 01:54 |
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Icon Of Sin posted:Sweet Christ I never want to work in negative-stupid temps ever again. I was in the army in Fairbanks, and training wasn’t suspended until it was -50F. Northern Warfare School was something else. I did the Advanced Arctic Diving course to go along with it. Now that redefined cold to me.
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# ? Oct 20, 2019 03:40 |
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I love the guy in the red jeep couldn't believe his eyes so much that he pulled over ahead of the car to film it going past.
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# ? Oct 20, 2019 04:42 |
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:Northern Warfare School was something else. I did the Advanced Arctic Diving course to go along with it. Now that redefined cold to me. gently caress. That. I broke my wrist at the cold weather leader’s course trying to learn to ski, and never went back. I know a guy who teaches ice diving, technical diving, and rebreather diving who travels to the Great Lakes to do these things. He tells me stories about how often his students would’ve killed themselves had they actually been at depth and unsupervised while practicing various skills in the shallows, and I lose the remote interest that I had prior. While we’re on the subject of diving and OSHA, we had a guy have a rebreather failure earlier this year on a work dive. The rebreather he was using had 3 O2 sensors in the loop, with the design thought of “1 fails, other 2 override the bad one”. Our intrepid diver had 2 sensors fail, so they overrode the one good sensor and his rebreather ended up giving him pure O2 at 100ft down. The normal O2 exposure limit is calculated by multiplying the percent of O2 in your breathing gas (expressed as a decimal) with your absolute depth (measured in atmospheres). At sea level, your O2 exposure is .209 (20.9% O2 x 1 atmosphere). For reasons that aren’t totally understood yet (Diver’s Alert Network is actively researching this), exposure behind a level of 1.4 puts you into an O2 seizure sooner rather than later. Doing the math, you can’t breathe pure O2 deeper than about 15ft without expecting to have an O2 seizure. Doing the math on our poor diver (1atmo at sea level, +3 more for being at 100ft) breathing pure O2 at that depth put the man at at least 4.0 for his O2 exposure, where he immediately had a seizure. Thankfully he clamped down on his regulator instead of spitting it out and drowning, but his buddy now had the task of getting him back to the surface as quickly as could be done safely. Buddy ascended him to ~70ft before losing control of him due to buoyancy in his BCD, and he shot straight back to the surface; the kicker was that since he was breathing pure O2 at extreme depth, he had effectively zero decompression-related injuries due to the lack of nitrogen buildup in his body. Dude is possibly the luckiest man to have ever survived a rebreather accident.
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# ? Oct 20, 2019 05:20 |
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Icon Of Sin posted:While we’re on the subject of diving and OSHA, we had a guy have a rebreather failure earlier this year on a work dive. The rebreather he was using had 3 O2 sensors in the loop, with the design thought of “1 fails, other 2 override the bad one”. Our intrepid diver had 2 sensors fail, so they overrode the one good sensor and his rebreather ended up giving him pure O2 at 100ft down. Jeez, talk about the lunatics running the madhouse.
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# ? Oct 20, 2019 05:29 |
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Icon Of Sin posted:gently caress. That. I broke my wrist at the cold weather leader’s course trying to learn to ski, and never went back. There is no large enough. The worst I ever saw as an equipment failure as a military diver, was when an Oceanic Mk-16's scrubber tank spring a leak and I have never seen anybody rip a regulator off their face so fast at depth. They were on their pony bottle and heading straight for the surface.
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# ? Oct 20, 2019 05:58 |
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DIY Rebreather https://aylo6061.com/2019/10/14/oxygen-rebreather-design-and-fabrication/
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# ? Oct 20, 2019 07:22 |
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MisterOblivious posted:
Of all the things to be "DIY", that is right near the bottom of my list. Right next to "dialysis machine".
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# ? Oct 20, 2019 08:09 |
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Someone found the origin story. https://i.imgur.com/H2XuK5I.mp4 https://i.imgur.com/WqyUANl.mp4 https://i.imgur.com/gNs3rLS.mp4 https://i.imgur.com/Ia7RKQa.mp4
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# ? Oct 20, 2019 08:20 |
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# ? Oct 20, 2019 08:49 |
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What on earth was he trying to do? I imagine that broke some important parts of his house
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# ? Oct 20, 2019 09:01 |
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thermobaric groundhog removal
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# ? Oct 20, 2019 09:12 |
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gender illusionist posted:What on earth was he trying to do? I imagine that broke some important parts of his house Often an easy way to deal with in ground wasp nests is to apparently pour some petrol in to it. You are then meant to let the fumes do the work. However most people assume part two involves kill it with fire.
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# ? Oct 20, 2019 09:15 |
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You expect me to pour a bunch of gas into a hole and not set it on fire?
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# ? Oct 20, 2019 09:21 |
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packetmantis posted:You expect me to pour a bunch of gas into a hole and not set it on fire? I used to do it all the time as a kid on the farm. It was worse when it did explode due to using anfo or other stuff I stole that was used for stumping because the ants weren't dead...they were EVERYWHERE
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# ? Oct 20, 2019 12:14 |
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Humphreys posted:I used to do it all the time as a kid on the farm. It was worse when it did explode due to using anfo or other stuff I stole that was used for stumping because the ants weren't dead...they were EVERYWHERE Hyped for the Earth Defense Force/Farming Simulator crossover
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# ? Oct 20, 2019 13:51 |
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MisterOblivious posted:
He’s wearing a very basic dive computer, that can’t compensate for the varying levels of O2 in his system over the dive. Looks like a Suunto Zoop, which only calculates decompression limits for up to 40% O2/60% N2 as your breathing gas. I think manual O2 add-valves were phased out of military rebreathers in the 40’s or 50’s, maybe? Congrats on ignoring every facet of basic safety in design, in execution, and every technological advancement in the field of scuba diving for the last 70 years. He doesn’t even have a loving bailout tank ffs, for when his death trap inevitably offers him up to the abyss.
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# ? Oct 20, 2019 14:39 |
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MisterOblivious posted:
No No No No No No No. At least they're pretty much guaranteed to remove themselves from the gene pool. You just know he's using soda lime in that scrubber too...
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# ? Oct 20, 2019 14:45 |
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Memento posted:Someone found the origin story. Of course it's Russia. iospace fucked around with this message at 14:50 on Oct 20, 2019 |
# ? Oct 20, 2019 14:47 |
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Icon Of Sin posted:
What was that old site where the guy made a webcomic about how much he hated recreational divers and that diving was super serious and only for business purposes? Sea patrol sticks out in my mind but its ungoogleable.
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# ? Oct 20, 2019 16:25 |
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# ? Oct 20, 2019 16:39 |
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Previa_fun posted:What was that old site where the guy made a webcomic about how much he hated recreational divers and that diving was super serious and only for business purposes? Sea patrol sticks out in my mind but its ungoogleable. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3757384
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# ? Oct 20, 2019 16:44 |
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# ? May 15, 2024 03:26 |
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thanks friend. I thought this thread was a lot longer ago. Google was just returning results for a kids' show called Sea Patrol which appears to have nothing to do with the real Sea Patrol and their fight against the scooby-doo menace like homemade rebreather guy above.
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# ? Oct 20, 2019 16:52 |