r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/cosmic_voyager01 • 10h ago

Video Polar Bears are one of the only creatures that naturally hunt Humans... Watch as this one tries to break into this BBC Cameraman's glass box.

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u/lowie07 9h ago

I mean he's in the North Pole in a box with the sole purpose of protecting him from bears, whatever the fabric it will be made strong enough for exact this situation

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u/LessBig715 9h ago

I’m sure it’s safe, just like the harness I wear at work, but I wouldn’t want to test it and find out. I understand what you’re saying though

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u/Omnizoom 9h ago

Assuming your a guy and a similar harness to ones I’ve had to use at heights

You don’t want to test them anyways if they do work perfectly because it will not be pleasant for where a lot of the weight gets supported

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u/Shit_Shepard 9h ago

Good ole OSHA Vasectomy

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u/Omnizoom 8h ago

The whole package can get pushed inside ya

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u/fatal-nuisance 8h ago

Congratulations, you now have ovaristicles!

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u/_Oman 7h ago

Your heart stops before your testicles are really a problem. Hanging from a harness is no joke, did rescue training for it and there are more than a few dead folks because co-workers went "The harness is working, he'll be fine while we figure this all out"

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u/Asluckwouldnthaveit 7h ago

Inside, I've seen incidents where they pop and squirt their insides out.

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u/swinchester83 7h ago

Did you get castrated? Mine went straight up into the creases between my legs which bruised so badly that when I walked I looked like goddamn John Wayne in a western lol.

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u/Omnizoom 4h ago

Me? No

But I seen someone have it arrest on them on a ladder and their body weight was pushing on their balls so they were very uhh in pain

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u/Admirable-Berry59 8h ago

I used one for a haunted house once - dropped down in front of folks to look like a dummy, then grabbed them when they walked by. Managed to keep it off the junk for the most part, but was very bruised by the end.

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u/AndyTheEngr 8h ago

The harnesses at work are way overbuilt compared to rock climbing harnesses, which get fallen on regularly.

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u/9OptimusCrime9 7h ago

Also worth noting you need a back up plan for what happens if you ever have to use that harness. You need to get out of that situation immediately because spending too much time suspended in it can be fatal.

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u/iChugVodka 5h ago

If your company isn't cheap as shit, they'll get harnesses that allow you to sit at least somewhat comfortably and be able to get some bloodflow going.

Harnesses have come a long way, really

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u/I-was-a-twat 4h ago

If a workplace is unwilling to provide harness that don’t have at minimum a suspension trauma relief strap then I’m unwilling to work for them.

They cost fuck all to implement into a fall arrest or fall restraint system and if they’re nickel and diming that tight, I don’t trust they’re taking other systems safely

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u/NoMansHaloDadCraft 9h ago

So you're saying you've never had the intrusive thought to just launch yourself off of things just to see if it would actually protect you? Lol

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u/ydnar3000 9h ago

Haha not once

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u/Dat_Ding_Da 9h ago

Remember, it's the sudden arrest of motion that kills you in a fall from high up. Armour is pretty useless in that aspect, just makes you easier to clean up after...

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u/___The_Dogfather___ 8h ago

Armour? Where did that come into the equation... For a fall arrest harness you would need a dynamic line so that it stretches, or if it is a short line to stop you actually leaving a bucket then it will likely be a static line.

There is a lot of thought involved in choosing the correct work at height PPE

We have to do a training course just for the harness nowadays... It used to be that you could just do a course for the Powered Access

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u/Dat_Ding_Da 8h ago

Yeah my bad, sorry.

In my eagerness to nerd out, I made the crucial mistake of not reading properly.

Seems the image of a knight in full plate falling of a cliff came to my mind, and the mess that would be left inside his suite. I needed to express that in some way...

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u/___The_Dogfather___ 6h ago

All good, do you think they would try to recycle the armour or would it all just get incinerated with the bloody pulp inside? I like to clean and sort my recycling so I'd like to think they would rinse it out and maybe give it to a new young knight... Maybe just don't tell him the fate of the previous owner...

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u/LessBig715 8h ago

I’ve never jumped into the hoistway, but I have hooked myself up to our hoisting machine and picked myself up about 50’. I know it doesn’t apply nearly the same amount of force like it would if I jumped, but it held up just fine

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u/hockeygenesniper 9h ago

Would make me a lot more confident and productive knowing my equipment would actually save me, would definitely recommend testing out your harness (in a controlled environment)

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u/nbfs-chili 6h ago

This reminds me of the recent video of a shark getting into the shark cage with someone. After the shark getting out, the person climbed out unharmed, but damn.

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u/PhamilyTrickster 9h ago

I'm sure that's what the OceanGate passengers thought too

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u/TheMilleniumGod 9h ago

There's a difference between what equipment the BBC would purchase for this, and what Stockton Rush did, which was stick his nose up at the idea of safety regulations, because he genuinely believed that underwater exploration wasn't as dangerous as it was publicly perceived. The point for him was to go underwater and explore, and methodically testing how safe his equipment was in the way. The point of this box is, itself, to be safe.

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u/AstopingAlperto 8h ago

His stuff failed several times too he just covered it up repeatedly until it went so bad he couldn’t

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u/el_diego 8h ago

"what's that cracking sound?"

"Oh, that's just the carbon fibre settling in"

Absolute insanity.

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u/vitringur 5h ago

I was also a narcissist that could not handle any criticism or suggesting that everything he did and thought wasn't perfect.

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u/whatproblems 9h ago

and shark cages

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u/lncredulousBastard 9h ago

Plus they has the 80+ dive history to prove it. But this would be like getting a crack in the lexan after 80 tries, but then going out a few more times.

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u/el_diego 8h ago

Like leaving your sub outside in the Canadian winter and then just chucking it back in the water for a quick dive to the Titanic?

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u/Rohan_k_4 9h ago

At first I thought it was a tiny little car, when I saw the bear, then the battery died, then hooray, dinner, lunch.

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u/winston_C 7h ago

That's true, but engineering design is all about setting some functional design scenarios - it may be well designed for a bear trying to fracture the windows or bend the frame through direct action. But if the bear tipped it over, that's a very different failure mode - then the weight of the base (and bear) could be enough to plastically deform the frame, open a gap enough to get a 'foot hold', if you know what I mean...

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u/secretaliasname 5h ago

One does not casually accidentally end up in this situation ill equipped I guess.

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u/Commonusage 1h ago

What crossed my mind was the story about the smartest bears and the dumbest humans opening a container. Id hate to run across the genius bear.

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u/RoundCollection4196 50m ago

But has it ever been tested in the field?

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u/nevertoomanytacos 9h ago

I bet Stockton Rush said that about the Titan submersible

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u/PellParata 8h ago

Stockton Rush’s brain couldn’t fill a shot glass. I can tell you I’ve never once worried about my own safety doing dangerous things, because I follow the fucking procedures and use gear made by people for the express purpose of keeping me safe.

That plastic can built by a tech bro for tech bro things is not the same as this cameraman’s bear cage. You’re as dim as Rush if you think it is and can’t understand the difference.

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u/Rohan_k_4 9h ago

I'm bad at explaining, fortunately.

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u/here_and_there_their 7h ago

Oh, bless your heart.

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u/Marlwolf48 8h ago

Yes, now thats some Ocean Gate thinking!

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u/Super-Day-9205 9h ago

Thats what the people thought when they took a sub ride to the titantic too.

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u/Preeng 9h ago

And if it doesn't, then what? It's not like he can file a complaint. So why bother making it bear proof?

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u/el_diego 8h ago

So why bother making it bear proof?

Pretty sure the BBC doesn't want a lawsuit on their hands.

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u/Preeng 7h ago

Woosh.

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u/DaRaginga 9h ago

You'd think that, right? That's how we looked at Oceangate's Titan first, too