The ERT COACH Podcast
THE EMERGENCY RESPONSE Podcast for THE MINING & RESOURCES INDUSTRY
For 50 years, Kel Bendeich has responded to the tragic, the disastrous, the heartbreaking, the unbelievable and the almost unprecedented events that have occurred in the mining operations and their surrounding communities he has worked with.
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Episodes
6 episodes
ALMOST UNPRECEDENTED: YOUR STORIES Episode 1 'The East Levee Bank Tree Incident'
Sponsored by OFFROAD TRUCKS AUSTRALIAOr first episode of the series ALMOST UNPRECEDENTED: Your Stories'The East Levee Bank Tree Incident'As told by remote site emergency response specialist Jeff Simpkins, on one of the la...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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50:24
ALMOST UNPRECEDENTED Episode 4 - Trapped in an overturned explosives truck
Two mine workers are in a runway mine explosives truck. The truck has gone through & over the windrow before ploughing into anolder windrow. Everything has concertinaed. The diesel trucks fuel tanks have been torn off, fuel is spilling ...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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34:43
ALMOST UNPRECEDENTED Episode 3 - Crocodiles and Witch Doctors
This mine was very remote. In the 1980's, there was no road to the site.A road would be constructed in the following decade.A majority of construction workers would travel to the site by company speed boat. An airport was be...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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38:18
ALMOST UNPRECEDENTED Episode 2 - Stranded in the Gulf
It is wet season in the Gulf of Carpentaria, Northern Territory Australia. Two young travellers have been trapped for 26 hours on the top of their campervan as a rising river and crocodiles threaten to take them under. The authorities are some ...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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51:15
ALMOST UNPRECEDENTED Episode 1 - A plane crashes into a pit
It is 1988. A light aircraft lays at the bottom of an unused and inaccessible pit at an open cut mine in the Hunter Valley, NSW Australia. There were four people on board. How long have they been there for? Why hadn’t the plane been reported mi...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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39:05