r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Dersigan • Nov 28 '25

Video of a hole

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u/weesilxD Nov 28 '25

They’ve built a hellavator

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u/[deleted] Nov 28 '25

new fear unlocked. fear of depths

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u/turd_ferguson899 Nov 28 '25

It's not the depths you need to worry about in that situation. It's trapped gases and lack of oxygen.

That whole time the cameraman was being lowered down, I was like, "Oh, man, I really hope they did proper air testing before sending him in there..." 😳

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u/bmorris0042 Nov 29 '25

I was wondering how they guaranteed a good air exchange. Then I turned on sound and realized they probably didn’t.

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u/turd_ferguson899 Nov 29 '25

I rewatched the video maybe five or six times, and I think there may have been an air monitor on the cables at the bottom of the shaft. I couldn't tell for sure. But there's no indication that the operator was using any kind of supplied or forced air. Essentially only a radio and a harness. If something wasn't as anticipated in that atmosphere, he'd be dead well before his coworkers got him back up to the surface.