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| Thread ID: 98291 | 2009-03-19 00:19:00 | Are you a mountain goat? | johcar (6283) | PC World Chat |
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| 757656 | 2009-03-19 04:27:00 | Did a DOC team put that track in...? | Deane F (8204) | ||
| 757657 | 2009-03-19 04:33:00 | Did a DOC team put that track in...? They would have to have stainless steel bolts and wire ropes everywhere, and everything wildly overbuilt because of the OSH requirements on them since Cave Creek. |
John H (8) | ||
| 757658 | 2009-03-19 05:07:00 | They would have to have stainless steel bolts and wire ropes everywhere, and everything wildly overbuilt because of the OSH requirements on them since Cave Creek. Considering being under-built caused the death of 14 teenagers I'd imagine being well built would be the preferred method. The Department of Conservation should have faced High Court action over its involvement in the Cave Creek tragedy, according to a report. An Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) service investigation report into the Cave Creek disaster said the department (DOC) should have been taken to court for failing to safely build and correctly inspect the platform for its safety. Fourteen people died and four survived when a viewing platform at Cave Creek in the Paparoa National Park north of Greymouth collapsed on April 28, 1995, and plunged 30m. Former Detective Inspector Kevin Burrowes, who investigated the case, recommended a number of DOC staff be arrested and charged for their part in the incident but his 1995 file has since been reportedly lost by police. Judge Graeme Noble, who headed the government inquiry, said DOC, but not its staff, was negligent and incompetent in constructing the faulty viewing platform. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 757659 | 2009-03-19 06:12:00 | The height is not a problem, it is the construction (or lack of) of the walkway. Would you trust it not to give way? :horrified | Jen (38) | ||
| 757660 | 2009-03-19 06:12:00 | thats a cool track, id definitey do it. but i would have 48 hours off drugs and alchohol before. you been down it already metla? someones given it a good smack around with something big |
hueybot3000 (3646) | ||
| 757661 | 2009-03-19 07:05:00 | It's not the fall that'll kill you, it's the sudden stop at the bottom! :D | johcar (6283) | ||
| 757662 | 2009-03-19 07:54:00 | Heights don't normally phase me too much, but I started getting vertigo watching this (wimp.com)... Not 'vertigo' but 'acrophobia.' Vertigo is a dizzying sensation of tilting within stable surroundings or of being in tilting or spinning surroundings. Acrophobia is an irrational and extreme fear of heights, which is what I think that you meant. I suffer from acrophobia and would not be anywhere near a place such as that! Happy to watch others play silly buggers but I am a natural born chicken.:blush: |
Roscoe (6288) | ||
| 757663 | 2009-03-19 08:06:00 | What you describe as vertigo is exactly what I was feeling like - sitting at my desk with the camera waving around. Heights can also trigger this feeling, as loss of visibility of a horizon in those prone to sea-sickness can trigger nausea. |
johcar (6283) | ||
| 757664 | 2009-03-19 08:07:00 | Plain madness! 0.5 x (v) ^ 2 = g x h :shock: |
Renmoo (66) | ||
| 757665 | 2009-03-19 08:12:00 | They have some amazing tracks like that in Europe. We went for a tramp in the Rosengarten part of the Dolomites (N Italy) and there was a ridge only about 20 m long, but 50 cm wide with a drop on either side of 100's of metres. SWMBO just walked across it and stood on the other side watching me... I put one foot on it and stepped back. I couldn't do it. I felt giddy and was sure I'd fall off. My heart was pounding. Finally, I got on my hands and knees and crawled across, looking straight ahead and not to one side or the other. |
TideMan (4279) | ||
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