tv Documentary RT May 14, 2013 6:29am-7:00am EDT
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explosion. if you have smoke around you but. you take the cap off and drop it. on the nose clip at. you with the next hail. my briefing is time to head down. coming up to ten o'clock in the morning about to join the day shift at the pitts. c b six in the. country where they take out almost two hundred thousand tons of coal every month. the machine carrying us was like something out of a science fiction movie a massive metal snake suspended. and slithering its way three hundred meters
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beneath us. and the piece itself is equally ominous. with this black was covered with a choking white dust. in place with. a nice minus shuffles beneath them as they get into position behind the masses of the stick. and it's this multimillion dollar cutting tool that allows them to extract the fowls and tons of coal every forty minutes. to be in choosing control panels one of the right one of the left. frankly. good professionals. the safety precautions described in the books and regulations
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really aren't helpful you only get experience by working as a team with the newcomers but what's the old mine is to learn how to do the job. doesn't mean the mine isn't just thrown in the deep and the man operation and that she has the lives of his colleagues in his hands. meets new recruits needs up to a year of training. to go local you've made a mistake. you have to adjust the support leg before you can start extracting my cold. if you don't make the grade it's back to the drawing board but there's much more than just classroom training involved each mine and needs to show they know what to do if an emergency really does.
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you've got to be physically fit enough to get others out under the toughest of circumstances. each new recruits has to undergo a grueling workouts in a special sauna is ridiculously holmes. and it's a long. speech. in this heat. will be just keep coming and i was starting to feel a little dizzy. and this was a real situation i might be expected to put out before so you have to be able to stomach humidity but once one hundred fifty i was told to take a break from doctor's orders. cooled down a bit it was back to the growing. by
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ok. next time we'll drop everything and do as you say we're going to everything needs to be in order. the power's out ok let me check a tradition is all we did in the circuits are open for five minutes i'll get the power to you. get to it. but it doesn't take long to get things going again then that makes everyone happy. except me perhaps. this is a pretty good job with the best of times but the thing about being the new guy is you get zero everything and no one else wants to do is well.
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you'll hammer a slice finally. there's no doubt that the mind is lost is better than it used to be the men work less hours for more pay and the times when you had to put in a full day of back breaking labor a long gone but some of the problems they face now are as real as they were more than a century ago. now back when these columnists first arrived here you couldn't imagine a more difficult or dangerous profession than mining as well as having to dig out all the coal by hand there was always the ever present threat that the roof might just collapse on your head and that's when these planes supports came in they would actually start to squeak if the pressure became too much so at least
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there was a chance that the miners would hear and be able to get out. if that. isn't bad enough. they also had to worry about the build up of methane gas because of the poor ventilation and then along would come the man with possibly the worst job in the entire world dressed head to toe in went to go toilets and carrying a lit torch literally come up suck it into the gas fill tunnel and. loop a couple who were both up explosion you've just seen was the result of safety regulations being violated there would have to be born with the supports weren't in line with safety regulations. a mass of coal caved in at the cable and ripped open the insulation with it but. the explosion was caused by an electrical impulse from
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a faulty ventilator. the electrical equipment in the shaft was also faulty but that's how it happened. the same build up has to be constantly monitored and mine is now the way to do it on the ground. so this little gadgets is a very important piece of safety equipment not everyone has one because it measures three different gases that are present in the amount of oxygen the amount of carbon monoxide i mean amounts of methane so if the amount of methane for instance reaches more than one percent then lights off last a long full sound and ever oh no they. become small it also has technology that tells them where the miners at any time. it was so now there are two guys down in the pits and ninety above ground with a simple click of
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a mouse you can see the name of everyone on shift today and where they all are right now. it's another michael precaution because you never know exactly when an accident. oh i was afraid of a story if you knew three judy manager go ahead with. six or six would be ok even understood. wealthy british style the stock.
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well we're on the move for number one to maintain contact with base number two months ago levels number three set of communications for take temperature readings every five minutes if you find that you wanted. everybody to still. would like to get into our tasks today concerns both tactical and technical
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training it will involve two units our unit is up the underground base we are to keep in touch with the second unit if the second unit of needs help with we are duty bound to give it the first number of. americans there will meet. the media this search unit is currently moving along the route. absolutely and in no way injured people have been found so far. if it turns out there is gas and too much smoke and then the man will navigate further with the help of ropes tethering them together in a line this method will assist them in the operation. nothing. nobody.
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understood. yourself. as an internet. or man of a bloke's. would plant. this very lengthy he's going to miss he's breathing. so didn't see any obvious injuries. as legs broken. gary he's bringing. all this will help him. blow pressure is ok bring the stretcher here. it's a sad find the coal mining is still one of the world's most dangerous professions every million tons of mass coal is estimated to cost three to four life's. work paul says his breathing. we must be responsible not
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only for the people we are searching for but also for ourselves but there have been cases when the rescuers didn't come back. with the injured men of then taken to hospital. you know that it's a trading exercise but when the dust flooded the smoke comes in it's actually very frightening i can't imagine what it would be like have to go through that for real . thank god there are guys like this the do the job that they do. because most region has some of the best trained rescue rangers in the country and they're ready to go at
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a moment's notice but it has its rewards. well thought she. was live months they called us in to search up central mine shaft. it caved in. you but still do and we spent about twelve hours digging the man out. to begin with we had drilled a small hole to give them food and water and were all three of them survived to be above well as it turned out they were my former colleagues used to work together in the mine for years before they were lucky it was here. the whole thing collapsed and was closed off moments after we pulled them all out your. my boys we will only be just in time. but tragedies like the response to mine explosion which killed sixty six people back in two thousand and ten is still very fresh in the memory. pommel feels there
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is still certain private companies who put money before safety. and as a girl i was on a different group of the most normal safety procedures were ignored then even tied rags over the census to disable them a better more wave had a many investigations but there's no money in the senate i know who is going to invest money here. i went to see some of the processes that they're working on a camera of his new clean coal or a train for the man in charge says they still have a long way to go. i didn't please call signs you're in forty years and i knew mrs cole like a big black screen kes big because as million tonnes black because this kind of coal and swings because we don't know what is it.
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will be researching in order to eat out of the rock coal is ever present in the christmas region and if you've not had enough of it at work you can even grab a bite to eat in a restaurant that's devoted to it. the answer that evening for your safety please take this hard had you know get a sense of the atmosphere in the cold my and let me take you to your table. surprisingly this local eatery has a very minor friendly menu. sorry your beef tongue salad with coal dust. every man johnny spare the coal mine is a real treat for me. but be warned the regulars can be pretty toolkits of progress i'm sure that's all fascinating stuff but you know i am trying
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to eat here more and. still there are a few house specialties which probably didn't make it into the lunch boxes of the mine as a bolt. of hard working. well mostly things the reason i scream. let's say is does that this was doing a shift in the full. day we'd be friends you drink oh well rather than to spoil me and. our bars special cocktail to cave in. the rules. orderly.
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generous the words of. my pulse to punch might have been in no hurry to get back to the pit but i have a date with one of the most experienced miners in the entire komsomolets company. james let's go over the past two decades me high heels has seen and done he's been joined by his son alexander a populous been repeated in these mines for generations i've been working here for twenty three years one of the modern equipment and people have changed a lot to get a bosses have become very demanding border safety measures are much more strictly enforced all that's resulted in increased production. but fewer and fewer men seem to regard it as
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a job for life. if you did the work that you want out of every ten to a hired only two or three will stay and those who do of very hard working if the bosses see anyone being lazy one bell be forced out one you would put up with another down here you have to love your job and you have to work hard because if that's not your attitude then you really can't work as a team you by job. and alexander is not mikhail's only some preparing for life down the pits his brother alexei will be graduating from mining vocational college next year. and even six year old son again seems destined for the family business. what's your favorite toy. that one. would know look good he'd show. he says it is
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favorite now but let's feel when he grows up. these two little known. and doesn't really know what he's talking about. here playing with that hard hat now he likes that. there is no escaping the coal mine. you can't get away with the only thing we have here are mine. if he does go into the mines sergei will help keep the coal coming and the convey is rolling twenty four hours a day production here never stops. so behind me you can finally see the fruits of our labors this year paul i love cold has just been purefoy of the coming out of the pits and now it's ready for it to long journey to the still far trish.
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most of the regions like most soulful bitchiness cold ends up in it's messy plugs where it's transforms. into this stuff and. more clues it hot. gets heated up to it for a thousand police more than twenty hours turned into. the finally it's been paid guy and much tell you what you really do not to want to be getting this close to it. now i just want to give you a quick easy recipe to make your own school bust the holes to my stumps. then. to some quantity to god.
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a cold sculptor. when you come a piece of coal sometimes it gives you a clue about what it's meant to be one of it's a very beautiful material. when i go to exhibitions coal miners sometimes come up to me they've been working in pits for ages they look at one of my pieces and i can almost see tears in their eyes when they see what can be made from a lump of coal and there's no hole just destined for the furnace when i cut it to a new that this is the product of a coal mine is hard work and maybe even of lives lost that's why people appreciate it. coats the coal with a special solvent and uses a razor to prevent it from shattering and the results are quite astounding. the better it is finished you wouldn't believe it's possible to make such
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a beautiful thing out of something so brittle and difficult but apparently in the beginning know that any. go it was here he started working with coal and his friend bet him that he couldn't make freestanding sculpture out of it. and i hope you didn't put too much money on that. there's no getting away from the facts that coal and money will always go hand in hand in the cause of us region and this multi-billion dollar business will always be dangerous but it's the glue which binds the people together it's the heart of the community and with new technologies being developed to make life safer for the miners and more productive for their employees to sell a pioneering spirit in this cold color of siberia and still light down in the darkness.
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dangerous experiments on prisoners they want to make money and they have to use healthy guinea pigs in the regular society they're not able to use prisoners i mean more they wish they could. drug tests all human guinea pigs. hate to pop the deadly pills you get in a subway he was killed. he didn't pass away they let him get. his pharmacy really about helping people. say oh.
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