Spot the deliberate mistake(s)

[shropshirebloke]

I don't know if anyone else saw last night's time Team special, where they were excavating a long-lost WWI British dugout in Flanders.

Despite it having been sealed off for 90 years there was no attempt to monitor air quality - the nearest they got was to evacuate it when they could smell strong petrol fumes. At no point did they appear to use so much as a flame lamp, let alone oxygen or CO detectors.

If the "experts" were happy to take the risk then that's fine for them, but I think they should at least have issued a "don't try this at home" type warning.

[John]

Nov 11, 2008 4:02:09 GMT -5 shropshirebloke said:

I don't know if anyone else saw last night's time Team special, where they were excavating a long-lost WWI British dugout in Flanders.

Despite it having been sealed off for 90 years there was no attempt to monitor air quality - the nearest they got was to evacuate it when they could smell strong petrol fumes. At no point did they appear to use so much as a flame lamp, let alone oxygen or CO detectors.

If the "experts" were happy to take the risk then that's fine for them, but I think they should at least have issued a "don't try this at home" type warning.

No wonder cavers get into serious trouble when they enter old coal mines, great example to them.

[inbye]

Not sure how it was a "mistake". When petrol fumes were discovered, they vacated the dig 'till the fumes cleared. Everyone was fine at the end of the programme.

Happily, not everyone seeks to admonish "cavers". Mine exploration is undertaken regularly, certainly in the UK, & no doubt around the rest of the world..........the only time it makes the news is when there's an injury.