The Intricate Skills Required For Bomb Disposal
7 November 2021 - 1 hour
Podcast Series
Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea
In your news feed or the newspapers or on television, there is probably a recent story on the explosion of some kind of improvised explosive device (IED).
For us here in Ireland, those occurrences are nowadays quite rare. However, there are many countries where explosives are a regular occurrence and every day there are men and women who put themselves in harms way in order to deactivate these devices. These are the bomb disposal experts who make a living from switching off devices designed to maim and kill.
Many people will have the movie 'The Hurt Locker' in mind when thinking of Bomb Disposal Experts but it is a position that carries many risks and doesn't necessarily match with portray...
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