Dog down a open shaft in Scorrier· Page 2

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Knocker
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#21

They're firefighters, not miners - they tend to wear their torches on their cests, not their heads! (Although that is starting to change!)

remoteneeded
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"Trewillan" wrote:
You're right, but they all have torches clipped on to harness. Look again, the torches are yellow.

Ah yes, so they do. It's still begs the question of how they can see where they're going. They're abseiling down the shaft and their torch is pointing ahead, horizontally, they're not illuminating down. Your head is on a rather useful pivot so you can illuminate wherever you want.

Trewillan
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"remoteneeded" wrote:

"Trewillan" wrote:
You're right, but they all have torches clipped on to harness. Look again, the torches are yellow.

Ah yes, so they do. It's still begs the question of how they can see where they're going. They're abseiling down the shaft and their torch is pointing ahead, horizontally, they're not illuminating down. Your head is on a rather useful pivot so you can illuminate wherever you want.

Remove torch from harness, point it in the right direction, accidentally drop it. Then you have something to aim for.

scooptram
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#24

Remove torch from harness, point it in the right direction, accidentally drop it. Then you have something to aim for
and it hits the dog on the head and kills it 😮

Tamarmole
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#25

A few years ago I ran an underground exercise with the local FRS teams - As part of the process I invited a couple of observers along; one from within the mining/tunnelling industry and one from cave rescue.

Apart from our reservations about the FRS teams overall performance one of our main (and unanimous) conclusions was that the FRS team's personal kit was unsuitable for the mine environment. In general everything was too bulky. Specifically we had issues with the silly little torches flapping around on the front of their jackets which seemed neither use nor ornament.

They just about got away with it in a well maintained tourist mine; in an abandoned mine they would have had the roof down on themselves within five minutes.