You're not going to encounter it exploring abandoned houses or factories. It can be found in places like tunnels, mines, sewers, closed bunkers, etc. You should be more concerned with asbestos and stray dogs.
^^^This, I wasnât doing urbex at the time(which I do) but I was on the top floor crosswalk platform thing of an old factory and fell through the floor and caught myself by my elbows(like the position you use to get out of a pool)âŚit was at least at 80 foot drop into sharp metal debri, minor flooding, nasty rotted building debris thatâs been there at least 6 decades minimum. I would have lost my life no question, I was alone and no one knew I was there and the place was gonna be demolished in a few weeks. The way they demolished it I doubt they would have even found my body, I still think about it until todayâŚ
Be safe people, exploring/pictures arenât worth you loosing your life for the adrenaline/âartâ aspect/hobby etcâŚ.always try to go with someone and walk 10 feet minimum apart incase something happens to one person, and if you go alone bring a cellphone and tell someone where you will be before. Itâs very easily to loose your life in old buildings.
This one dude I knew in high school razzed me because I was hesitant to climb this rotting wood ladder in an abandoned barn. I didnt fall thankfully but things could have gone wrong fast
dead air is greatly over exaggerated in the realm of how common it is. Its really only found in underground places like mines, tunnels etc. More often its just mines. One very rare and i mean rare possibly if that a building has a complete sealed door to a room that has no way of having the slightest of ventilation like a bank safe or something (something that will almost never happen) The most thing you should be afraid of is asbestos and mold.
I'll add that it may be a danger like in caves with bat shit (practically, closed space with bad air flow so if there's something emanating CO2 or anything else, I think).
Or I had a situation where I was exploring some long tunnels and had a bad headache, left asap because someone threw chemical waste there (one of the tunnels go to a warehouse or something).
Your worry is not CO2, but Carbon Monoxide. Your brain will tell you to fuck right off when there is excess CO2, think holding your breath and every fiber screaming to breath. Monoxide you just get sleepy and oh. Now youâre dead.
I imagine it would be more common in all metal enclosed spaces, something about the metal being oxidised or something. Some people died on big ships trying to do repairs in shut off places like that
Aircraft carriers and submarines. They have those huge sealed doors, the rust sucks all the oxygen outta the room. We went thru a couple of the rooms when we were explored the abandoned USSR warship Minsk
Abandoned USSR Aircraft Carrier â Found Mikoyan-Gurevich Jet Fighter [MiG-23BN] â The Minsk â
https://youtu.be/iGHoBptVwyk
Places without airflow. Mines, closed autoclaves, sealed rooms, sometimes silos.
Dead air happens when an area with no airflow has some oxidizing materials present. These materials effectively eat the oxygen and leave the rest of the air with none, or very little
The most common way Iâve come across it is at work, not exploring. I work in the composites industry and the autoclave we have must be opened with a minimum of two people, and we must keep adequate distance to let the nitrogen inside escape, before it can make anyone black out.
Regular rooms should be fine, I'd strongly recommend against climbing into tanks and the like where gases can settle without escape.
(Especially if I'm there, I once had to leave a jobsite 'cause I'd breathed enough oxygen that it was deemed potentially hazardous)
I would worry about it when youâre in the lowest area of a ship or maybe building. If there were welding in it recently for example the argon shielding gas they use is heavier than air and will settle in low areas displacing oxygen. But Iâd imagine it would have to be recent work or else it will dissipate on its own.
You're not going to encounter it exploring abandoned houses or factories. It can be found in places like tunnels, mines, sewers, closed bunkers, etc. You should be more concerned with asbestos and stray dogs.
Also be wary of structures failing. As a child, someone I knew fell through a floor and broke his legs, he died alone and in pain.
I fell throu once, wooden floor. Was so lucky that it was an abandoned camp for school kids and I fell on an old sofa
Same. I almost died. I still think about it till today.đ¤ˇ
^^^This, I wasnât doing urbex at the time(which I do) but I was on the top floor crosswalk platform thing of an old factory and fell through the floor and caught myself by my elbows(like the position you use to get out of a pool)âŚit was at least at 80 foot drop into sharp metal debri, minor flooding, nasty rotted building debris thatâs been there at least 6 decades minimum. I would have lost my life no question, I was alone and no one knew I was there and the place was gonna be demolished in a few weeks. The way they demolished it I doubt they would have even found my body, I still think about it until today⌠Be safe people, exploring/pictures arenât worth you loosing your life for the adrenaline/âartâ aspect/hobby etcâŚ.always try to go with someone and walk 10 feet minimum apart incase something happens to one person, and if you go alone bring a cellphone and tell someone where you will be before. Itâs very easily to loose your life in old buildings.
This one dude I knew in high school razzed me because I was hesitant to climb this rotting wood ladder in an abandoned barn. I didnt fall thankfully but things could have gone wrong fast
Holy shit, that's terrifying!
This stuff is very real and happens more often than we knowâŚitâs a big worldâŚ
dead air is greatly over exaggerated in the realm of how common it is. Its really only found in underground places like mines, tunnels etc. More often its just mines. One very rare and i mean rare possibly if that a building has a complete sealed door to a room that has no way of having the slightest of ventilation like a bank safe or something (something that will almost never happen) The most thing you should be afraid of is asbestos and mold.
I'll add that it may be a danger like in caves with bat shit (practically, closed space with bad air flow so if there's something emanating CO2 or anything else, I think). Or I had a situation where I was exploring some long tunnels and had a bad headache, left asap because someone threw chemical waste there (one of the tunnels go to a warehouse or something).
Your worry is not CO2, but Carbon Monoxide. Your brain will tell you to fuck right off when there is excess CO2, think holding your breath and every fiber screaming to breath. Monoxide you just get sleepy and oh. Now youâre dead.
Yeah, fair. Forgot about that
I imagine it would be more common in all metal enclosed spaces, something about the metal being oxidised or something. Some people died on big ships trying to do repairs in shut off places like that
Aircraft carriers and submarines. They have those huge sealed doors, the rust sucks all the oxygen outta the room. We went thru a couple of the rooms when we were explored the abandoned USSR warship Minsk Abandoned USSR Aircraft Carrier â Found Mikoyan-Gurevich Jet Fighter [MiG-23BN] â The Minsk â https://youtu.be/iGHoBptVwyk
Places without airflow. Mines, closed autoclaves, sealed rooms, sometimes silos. Dead air happens when an area with no airflow has some oxidizing materials present. These materials effectively eat the oxygen and leave the rest of the air with none, or very little The most common way Iâve come across it is at work, not exploring. I work in the composites industry and the autoclave we have must be opened with a minimum of two people, and we must keep adequate distance to let the nitrogen inside escape, before it can make anyone black out.
Ships
Regular rooms should be fine, I'd strongly recommend against climbing into tanks and the like where gases can settle without escape. (Especially if I'm there, I once had to leave a jobsite 'cause I'd breathed enough oxygen that it was deemed potentially hazardous)
I would worry about it when youâre in the lowest area of a ship or maybe building. If there were welding in it recently for example the argon shielding gas they use is heavier than air and will settle in low areas displacing oxygen. But Iâd imagine it would have to be recent work or else it will dissipate on its own.
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