The chamber is supposed to protect them from lack or oxygen or harmful gases. Yet, the oxygen it needs is stored on the inside but they have to take it outside to hook it up.
Of course, open and closing the door is wasting oxygen or letting harmful gases in. Then of course there is the inevitable sabotage to the system becasue it is on the outside while the miners are in the inside. LOL!
Agreed. It's the most unsafe safety chamber ever designed. Besides the obvious issue of the oxygen tanks being easily accessible to murderous mine dwellers, real world application could see the tanks or apparatus damaged by cave in.
shareStrata Worldwide makes that chamber. I am going to guess the negotiations went something like this:
Ben Ketai: We're making a movie and we need a rescue chamber in it.
Strata: We make those. We can provide one to you as a loaner if you put the logo in it.
Ben Ketai: In the movie one of the plot devices is that the air tanks have to be changed by going outside the chamber and stuff. Is that cool?
Strata: No that's idiotic - we'd never make it like that.
Ben Ketai: Well that's how it is in the script. Do you want to have your company in the movie?
Strata: .........long pause......... Put us in your movie.
Ben Ketai: Thought so.
That is actually not a Strata Worldwide refuge chamber, but rather one of our competitors. Strata has no affiliation with this movie and was never approached about it.
shareThe chamber is supposed to protect them from lack or oxygen or harmful gases. Yet, the oxygen it needs is stored on the inside but they have to take it outside to hook it up.
Of course, open and closing the door is wasting oxygen or letting harmful gases in. Then of course there is the inevitable sabotage to the system becasue it is on the outside while the miners are in the inside. LOL!
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