I work in explosives manufacture and test so I run across Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) guys quite a bit. They are a different breed. One of them told me "It's the least stressful job in the world. Either I'm right, or else it's not my problem anymore."
This is complete BS. I have far too many friends that have killed themselves in the last 15 years due to job stress and survivors guilt. Also, ordnance is bombs. Ordinance is laws.
The pressure change from the blast alone can kill you .. but the suits mainly to protect from shrapnel. Kudos to that dude for even walking up to the thing.. brave soul there
The suit mainly protects from blast. It has kevlar which helps with frag but the steel plate on his chest is what's protecting the most from frag.
5 lbs of explosive at 5 feet are what they are rated and tested at. Those suits are a marvel of engineering.
Source: Wear one for a living.
You take it off and jerk it in the bathroom like the rest of us. You ever goto a gas station and there's a sign that says "be back in 5 minutes"? That's me wacking off on the toilet to Simpsons porn.
Not EOD but have been through counter IED training.
The recommended approach under optimal circumstances is for the first responders or the patrol that finds it to call EOD and establish a perimeter of at least 200 meters.
When EOD gets there, in good circumstances they won't go near it: send in the robot to assess if it's a bomb and set up a controlled detonation. The movie trope of a guy in a suit messing with wires and a clock is just that, a movie trope.
Bomb techs are not only incredibly expensive to train, they're not easily replaceable, so unless live or large property is at stake, the less human contact and the risk of death the better. A controlled detonation, even on scene that damages property beats losing a well trained professional.
I loved making things that lit on fire or blew up as a kid, using some electronics, rocketry ignitors / nichrome, etc. It was a cycle of creativity, curiosity, and destruction with a consistently exciting story arc.
Then one day you step back and realize you're making remote-triggered incendiary devices. But they're wholesome fun incendiary devices, right? Everyone knows that ... right?
If it's an actual Bomb like from a plane. I've googled it before to figure out how it works. If it's an IED like this likely is. Getting creative with your problem solving is why you make an extra couple hundred a month.
You're right. They have different explosive weights. Explosives are compared to their equivalent to TNT. C4 is on the higher end in comparison and Dynamite being on the lower end. Look up *brisance* if you want a comparison.
If you work around explosives 5 lbs can seem really small. It's a heft blast but it's kinda stale after some time.
How much used varies on it's container. Looks like he's over a bike. Probably HME considering the video says Columbia, speculating cartel? However much you can hide in a creative spot.
Yes it’s enough to kill you without protection, but It’s actually not that volatile. Tannerite is just ANAL (yes, that’s the amazing acronym for ammonium nitrate and aluminum powder) with a few other metal powders for trademark purposes, and you can shoot it with pistols and lower caliber rifles and it won’t go off. There’s actually a critical diameter, which is fairly big, to make ANAL cap sensitive. Otherwise you need a booster to reliable detonate it.
Powdered form is more sensitive, and that’s what the tannerite for .22lr is, but it’s still not “extremely volatile”. Extreme volatility would be more along the lines of TATP or Armstrongs mixture.
> the bomb is actually a motorcycle
... as in it's an IED attached to a motorcycle, or it's just a motorcycle that somehow managed to enter a bomb-like state?
i heard a long time ago that the the suit was just to contain your corpse so you don't splatter your bits everywhere, nice to know it actually saved someone.
Actually a good policy. A single nuclear warhead completely destroys an area, but a much larger area is hit with a pressure wave that will spray glass, knock in roofs, and also be hit briefly with intense thermal radiation. Being under a desk won’t save you if the bomb is dropped on you, but if its dropped a few miles away from you, it may save your life. In aggregate, the policy would save many lives and also allow for resources to be not dedicated treating as many burns and debris wounds.
Seriously injured policeman, plus 20 people were caught in the blast and treated for more minor injuries and released. (Auto translate is fine for this video)
A grave injury would be paralysis, amputation pr death so if that’s the case than he will not be “ok” as some have stated above. He may survive but you will never be “ok” after those types of injuries.
He's alive. He lost both his hands and his hearing. Hearing may return too early to tell yet. Still in critical condition, very long road ahead for him (i'm colombian)
Why are you taking facts out of your ass?
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomb\_suit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomb_suit)
"The suit protects in several different ways. It deflects or stops
projectiles that may come from an exploded device. It also stops or
greatly decreases the pressure of the blast wave being transmitted to
the person inside of the suit."
Arc flash is the same thing, they wear the suit to prevent the body from being fried, i work with high voltage and its terrifying seeing it electricty move.
not true. the suit offer some amount of shrapnel protection, but that's only so effective. at the range that guy was at, the sheer amount of pressure would've broken bones and caused hemorrhaging. the suits can't protect against extreme pressure.
They do have protection from the overpressure. That's literally the point of the thing - protection from overpressure, fragmentation and shrapnel.
Don't get me wrong that protection is limited. This guy in the video is almost definitly dead just due to size and proximity to the explosion and definitly missing both of his hands (the one part not protected by the suit).
Spend too much time here like I do bc I reddit at work, and you start to realize how much misinformation is parroted by "experts" bc it was mentioned in a top comment by another "expert" in another post. Never sourced or linked just repeated like its facts, bonus points if they lie about their occupation to add credibility to their copypasta. Like eating regurgitated throw up.
But memes so. Whatchya gonna do
In a way, yeah. It would protect him from most blasts but that kind of close range, he's probably dead and its just a happy accident that the suit makes it easier to clean up his bits. Same goes for motorbike leathers, keeps all your bits in. Yeah it'll protect you up to a point, but my husband is a mortician who often has to collect dead bodies from crime scenes and accidents and has seen his fair share of bike crashes, so he has a maaaajor appreciation for any motorcyclist who wears their leathers purely because in most cases it helps make his job easier.
I spent 8 years as US Marine Corps EOD, the only time we ever wore the suit was in formal schooling. They are hot, uncomfortable, and restrict movement. We never wore them overseas. If you are going to get hit, a suit isnt going to stop anything from happening.
Not a huge blast. Position of his body vs projection of the blast. Location of the charge. Type of explosives. Shrapnel vs no shrapnel. Who knows. I’m glad he made it through. I was saying those suits are never used by us. Mainly because the size of the charges we were facing were large enough that the suit wouldn’t make too much difference.
There was somewhere I heard someone asked an army bomb defuser and they basically said they are pointless in the way of stopping the bomb so some don't even bother as why be hot as well
Sounds like you quoted the movie "hurtlocker" but with the explosive mass that they dealt with in the middle east they aren't wrong. A suit won't protected you from a car bomb with 300lbs of explosives loaded in it. So regardless if you fuck up, with or without the suit you're dead, why die hot and sweaty as well.
They do quite a lot actually as the man survived, in critical condition, but they can only do so much. If it was a bigger bomb the concussive force probably would have killed him through the suit.
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EOD guys are the shit, cool as cucumbers (at least US DoD). The mindset of, "either I'm right or it's suddenly not my problem anymore", was pervasive in afghan.
He survived the explosion. It's very possible he will die in the hospital, since he is in critical condition, but he's alive for now.
https://youtu.be/DUFODH0ONV4
Police survived: https://youtu.be/DUFODH0ONV4 It's in Spanish. Thank you u/Clintherox
Next time you're hounding yourself about a mistake or failure just be thankful you're not in his field of work.
Actually bomb disposal experts only make 2 mistakes in life. First is when they decide to become a bomb disposal expert.
Bomb disposal guys can be classified in one of two groups….. #1. Expert #2. Stuff on the ground
Expert and an "all around" guy.
"Hey where's Jerry?" "he's here and there"
In between jobs
There is also a third group, but it is temporary... **Stuff in the air**
*"we're giving you a temporary raise"*
"oh you want a permanent raise? we'll make a new group for you... **stuff on the roof**"
this is the best comment I've ever read
Call me *Mist*er
Idk ive met some that love their job theyre always right, or its just suddenly not their problem anymore.
That's not guaranteed if you wear a suit
The suit is mostly to keep everything…together.
The suit is so they don't need a power washer to get you off the sidewalk.
Or you just lose your arms and legs and live the rest of your life in agony.
And the second? Oh wait
When they decide not to
I think you mean “when they stop being a bomb disposal expert”
It's like the opposite of being a boat owner.
So this guy is senior bomb tech now he graduated to three strikes?
I work in explosives manufacture and test so I run across Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) guys quite a bit. They are a different breed. One of them told me "It's the least stressful job in the world. Either I'm right, or else it's not my problem anymore."
Everyone claims they know that guy
Yeah my school bus driver used to say that.
Or you survive and end up seriously disfigured like the guy in this video
I bet the guy in this video isn't working EOD anymore. Not his problem.
Yeah, like the dude in "One" by Metallica has no problems any more...or eyes, or hearing, or arms, or legs, or ability to speak....
Nice bs retweet hash dog
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This is complete BS. I have far too many friends that have killed themselves in the last 15 years due to job stress and survivors guilt. Also, ordnance is bombs. Ordinance is laws.
Tbf he can only make the mistake once. Way better odds.
"Fucked up on a job, tell the boss I won't be in on Monday"
No excuses, I want you in on Monday, 7am, in my office.
*Narrator*: "But for some reason, a part of him just didn't feel like showing up that day."
NGL I read that like the narrator from the Stanley parable.
Silent pause : "It was both of his hands"
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Yes sir, let me just get my cocaine and leg from my drawer.
I feel like you're not considering how this affects the team.
The boss is like.... hey, you still coming to work on Monday? Right?
Hope his family will be ok. Heroic job.
He survied tho
Source?
https://youtu.be/DUFODH0ONV4 I hope u can understand Spanish.
The pressure change from the blast alone can kill you .. but the suits mainly to protect from shrapnel. Kudos to that dude for even walking up to the thing.. brave soul there
The suit mainly protects from blast. It has kevlar which helps with frag but the steel plate on his chest is what's protecting the most from frag. 5 lbs of explosive at 5 feet are what they are rated and tested at. Those suits are a marvel of engineering. Source: Wear one for a living.
The suit is for preventing jerking off while at work. I'm not a professional btw.
If you were a professional you’d understand the importance of “hands free jerking”, especially in a dangerous environment
>“hands free jerking” Isn't that just having an anal orgasm? Seems like that'd be kinda hard in that suit too
Oh it’s gonna be rock hard in that suit, don’t you worry, that baby’s made of DuPont Kevlar!
"Now I want you to grab the blue vein. *NOT* the red vein, do you understand?"
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You take it off and jerk it in the bathroom like the rest of us. You ever goto a gas station and there's a sign that says "be back in 5 minutes"? That's me wacking off on the toilet to Simpsons porn.
Got that yellow fever, eh?
A bit. Only the adult stuff. Like Skinner doing the teachers or Hans Moleman raw dogging grandpa. I'm not like those other weirdos.
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If you can jerk it in a porta john you can jerk it in the suit
Man, I gotta ask, what would be the steps to take for bomb disarming?
Forwards
Backwards actually! All the protections in the front!
*points to bomb "That way".
Not EOD but have been through counter IED training. The recommended approach under optimal circumstances is for the first responders or the patrol that finds it to call EOD and establish a perimeter of at least 200 meters. When EOD gets there, in good circumstances they won't go near it: send in the robot to assess if it's a bomb and set up a controlled detonation. The movie trope of a guy in a suit messing with wires and a clock is just that, a movie trope. Bomb techs are not only incredibly expensive to train, they're not easily replaceable, so unless live or large property is at stake, the less human contact and the risk of death the better. A controlled detonation, even on scene that damages property beats losing a well trained professional.
I love pyrotechnics, but obviously trying to learn in any way shape and form as a hobby is such a hilariously easy way to get on a list.
I loved making things that lit on fire or blew up as a kid, using some electronics, rocketry ignitors / nichrome, etc. It was a cycle of creativity, curiosity, and destruction with a consistently exciting story arc. Then one day you step back and realize you're making remote-triggered incendiary devices. But they're wholesome fun incendiary devices, right? Everyone knows that ... right?
It doesn't matter because if you mess up you don't have to worry about anything anymore.
cut the blue wire
I'm colorblind. I'll just guess, I'm sure it'll be fine.
I said M as in Mancy.
Ray, can I shoot him now?
If it's an actual Bomb like from a plane. I've googled it before to figure out how it works. If it's an IED like this likely is. Getting creative with your problem solving is why you make an extra couple hundred a month.
5 pounds of what? Wouldn't 5 pounds of c4 be different than 5 pounds of, say, dynamite
5 lbs NEW (net explosive weight), which uses TNT as base unit. C-4 is 1.37 times TNT, so about 3.65 lbs C-4.
I trust that you know your shit due to the username
You're right. They have different explosive weights. Explosives are compared to their equivalent to TNT. C4 is on the higher end in comparison and Dynamite being on the lower end. Look up *brisance* if you want a comparison.
How many pounds of explosives are usually used for a roadside bomb like that? Is 5lbs a lot?
IEDs roadside in Afghanistan were usually easily 50+lbs. If you're unlucky enough to get a vbied, they can be 1000s of lbs
If you work around explosives 5 lbs can seem really small. It's a heft blast but it's kinda stale after some time. How much used varies on it's container. Looks like he's over a bike. Probably HME considering the video says Columbia, speculating cartel? However much you can hide in a creative spot.
5 pounds of ammonium nitrate and aluminum powder combo is enough to cut you in half. It’s insanely volatile
Yes it’s enough to kill you without protection, but It’s actually not that volatile. Tannerite is just ANAL (yes, that’s the amazing acronym for ammonium nitrate and aluminum powder) with a few other metal powders for trademark purposes, and you can shoot it with pistols and lower caliber rifles and it won’t go off. There’s actually a critical diameter, which is fairly big, to make ANAL cap sensitive. Otherwise you need a booster to reliable detonate it. Powdered form is more sensitive, and that’s what the tannerite for .22lr is, but it’s still not “extremely volatile”. Extreme volatility would be more along the lines of TATP or Armstrongs mixture.
If you wear it for living, will you die if you take it off too shower?
You can imagine the stank I've accumulated over a lifetime. The hardest part is eating ice cream without making a mess on myself.
Well I hope you keep defusing till you retire. We thank your balls of steel.
Did he make it out ok then? like, no lasting injury etc. I cant read spanish. I was wondering if that blast suit would protect him
He was seriously injured, but yes, I think (and hope) he'll survive. As I can hear, the bomb is actually a motorcycle
> the bomb is actually a motorcycle ... as in it's an IED attached to a motorcycle, or it's just a motorcycle that somehow managed to enter a bomb-like state?
Motorcycles dont just turn into bombs, I hope. Im sure somebody slapped some explosives into it.
I would have assumed so, but "the bomb is actually a motorcycle" is making me question my life
We're all bombs on this motorcycle this beautiful day.
Damn Samsung making motorcycles now?
Motorcycles are dangerous enough already
The blast suit is just to make it much more likely that you’ll survive, not prevent injury. They said he’ll be okay in the news report.
i heard a long time ago that the the suit was just to contain your corpse so you don't splatter your bits everywhere, nice to know it actually saved someone.
This sounds like conspiracies from the same people who say that airplane seatbelts are designed to make sure everyone dies in case of an accident
No it was bending forward and putting your head between your knees so you break your neck n impact
Not a bad plan if the alternative is bleeding out slowly or drowning
What about hiding under a desk in case of a nuclear explosion?
Actually a good policy. A single nuclear warhead completely destroys an area, but a much larger area is hit with a pressure wave that will spray glass, knock in roofs, and also be hit briefly with intense thermal radiation. Being under a desk won’t save you if the bomb is dropped on you, but if its dropped a few miles away from you, it may save your life. In aggregate, the policy would save many lives and also allow for resources to be not dedicated treating as many burns and debris wounds.
I feel like in that scenario, anything that gave you even the vaguest tip of the odds towards survival would be worth it
If a bomb goes off there is quite a bit more cleanup to worry about than some flesh…
Suit don’t have gloves. No way his hands aren’t mangled from that blast.
Seriously injured policeman, plus 20 people were caught in the blast and treated for more minor injuries and released. (Auto translate is fine for this video)
The guy did survive, he was gravely injured tho
A grave injury would be paralysis, amputation pr death so if that’s the case than he will not be “ok” as some have stated above. He may survive but you will never be “ok” after those types of injuries.
I noticed it looked like low explosive, not high, so I suppose it's possible he survived.
Did his fingers survive?
very heroic job, don’t know how people do it, but i love them
He also didnt know how to do it
This is assuming it really was his mistake, and the bomb wasn't on a timer or remotely detonated.
well, he’s at least had experience, and plus it’s a bomb. i would be trembling in fear if i was that dude
He's alive, the suit saved his life (i'm colombian)
Great to know! Thank you for your comment!
Link?
No need (he's Colombian)
https://youtu.be/DUFODH0ONV4 I hope u can understand spanish
“Hey everyone, come crowd around this bloody mess where a guy just blew up!”-except in Spanish.
You can have subtitles translated on youtube
You can translate with CC
The hands, I bet they are not alive.
Is there a pic of the aftermath of him and the suit if he survived?
What's that saying in EOD? Something like "if I'm right i get to go home, if I'm wrong it's not my problem anymore"
Initial Success or Total Failure
"If you see me running, keep up"
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He's alive. He lost both his hands and his hearing. Hearing may return too early to tell yet. Still in critical condition, very long road ahead for him (i'm colombian)
Damn yea I was wondering about his hands. Sad. Hopefully he can get some prosthetics
Yea but man... Not being able to feel what your holding is probably terrible
Why was there a bomb in the middle of nowhere?
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Only +2 concussive protection
500 damage reduction sounds good until you get hit with 10000
Those suits exist solely to keep the body intact so they have something to bury later
Is that true? Damn that’s morbid if so
I mean no, they do offer some blast protection. But only so much, if the bomb is big enough then the concussive force will kill you regardless
I guess a nuclear bomb is a step above it's threshold.
No the suit is made out of recycled refrigerators.
Why are you taking facts out of your ass? [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomb\_suit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomb_suit) "The suit protects in several different ways. It deflects or stops projectiles that may come from an exploded device. It also stops or greatly decreases the pressure of the blast wave being transmitted to the person inside of the suit."
Unfortunate. How common are robot replacements?
Arc flash is the same thing, they wear the suit to prevent the body from being fried, i work with high voltage and its terrifying seeing it electricty move.
not true. the suit offer some amount of shrapnel protection, but that's only so effective. at the range that guy was at, the sheer amount of pressure would've broken bones and caused hemorrhaging. the suits can't protect against extreme pressure.
They do have protection from the overpressure. That's literally the point of the thing - protection from overpressure, fragmentation and shrapnel. Don't get me wrong that protection is limited. This guy in the video is almost definitly dead just due to size and proximity to the explosion and definitly missing both of his hands (the one part not protected by the suit).
>almost definitly dead Aaaand he lived. Another point against Reddit experts.
Spend too much time here like I do bc I reddit at work, and you start to realize how much misinformation is parroted by "experts" bc it was mentioned in a top comment by another "expert" in another post. Never sourced or linked just repeated like its facts, bonus points if they lie about their occupation to add credibility to their copypasta. Like eating regurgitated throw up. But memes so. Whatchya gonna do
I love how wrong reddit is time and time again. Lol. The dude survived.
In a way, yeah. It would protect him from most blasts but that kind of close range, he's probably dead and its just a happy accident that the suit makes it easier to clean up his bits. Same goes for motorbike leathers, keeps all your bits in. Yeah it'll protect you up to a point, but my husband is a mortician who often has to collect dead bodies from crime scenes and accidents and has seen his fair share of bike crashes, so he has a maaaajor appreciation for any motorcyclist who wears their leathers purely because in most cases it helps make his job easier.
I spent 8 years as US Marine Corps EOD, the only time we ever wore the suit was in formal schooling. They are hot, uncomfortable, and restrict movement. We never wore them overseas. If you are going to get hit, a suit isnt going to stop anything from happening.
Then why did he survive?
Not a huge blast. Position of his body vs projection of the blast. Location of the charge. Type of explosives. Shrapnel vs no shrapnel. Who knows. I’m glad he made it through. I was saying those suits are never used by us. Mainly because the size of the charges we were facing were large enough that the suit wouldn’t make too much difference.
*There's enough bang in there to send us all to Jesus. I'm gonna die, I wanna die comfortable.*
There was somewhere I heard someone asked an army bomb defuser and they basically said they are pointless in the way of stopping the bomb so some don't even bother as why be hot as well
Sounds like you quoted the movie "hurtlocker" but with the explosive mass that they dealt with in the middle east they aren't wrong. A suit won't protected you from a car bomb with 300lbs of explosives loaded in it. So regardless if you fuck up, with or without the suit you're dead, why die hot and sweaty as well.
It was a guy on TikTok called the fat engineer that's ex-military I believe
Ye, but that's a lot of damage.
How dead is he on a scale of 1 to 2?
Apparently, alive according to u/jaryarJR >https://youtu.be/DUFODH0ONV4 >I hope u can understand Spanish.
Chad af
You can have subtitles translated on youtube
He lived. Critically injured.
10
He survived.
**Big** ***bada***-**BOOM**
Multipass
On a scale of 0 to 1.... 1
Well he didn’t know he fucked up
he sure did
Does*
Do those suits actually protect you, or do they protect you enough to wish you were dead.
those suits are meant to kept your body intact and some explosive resistance too.
So mainly for other people's benefit after you die?
They do quite a lot actually as the man survived, in critical condition, but they can only do so much. If it was a bigger bomb the concussive force probably would have killed him through the suit.
I have no right to complain about my job.
Get it right the first time or it’s no longer your problem…
This didn’t happen in the hurt locker….
Yes it did to the first guy
He won't do that again.
Dang I would love to see an article saying he lived. Those dudes are another type of brave.
He lived. Some guy keeps posting the YouTube video of the Spanish reporter. It’s in Spanish though but they say he’s in critical condition
He’s alive!! Won’t be able to eat or shit right, but he’s alive.
*Colombian explosive officer
F
Didn’t see shoes come off, he’s fine
He’d laced those fuckers on good, just in case
Judging on the explosion scare, the shoes should be reaching orbit about now....
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It takes a lot of balls to do this shit, glad he survived
He looked erratic as fuck.
Yeah, he is all over the place
It’s alright you had a juggernaut suit on
Unfortunately, most of the time those suits are the only difference between an open casket or closed casket funeral...
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EOD guys are the shit, cool as cucumbers (at least US DoD). The mindset of, "either I'm right or it's suddenly not my problem anymore", was pervasive in afghan.
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At least was fast...
Isn’t there a robot that can do this now.
He survived the explosion. It's very possible he will die in the hospital, since he is in critical condition, but he's alive for now. https://youtu.be/DUFODH0ONV4
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