Avalanche Safety Device tested

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Incoming........

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Dummies, what dummies?

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About to cough up the dummies..........

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Here you can see the dummies coughed up out of the avalanche. They are in the air just in front of the leading edge. We believe this is due to the flotation provided by the lift bag. Rather than being buried and ground into the mountain by the avy, the lift bag continually floats the victim to the surface, here in the extreme......

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We can't find the dummies in this frame. The avalanche has possibly re-engulfed the two dummies at this point......

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So everything looks good at this point, problem being there's a bomb sailing down the mountain inside the avalanche, most likely within a few yards of our dummies.......

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Tick, tick, tick, tick.......... or rather, hisssssss...........

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Cover your ears............

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Boom goes the dynamite, or more precisely ammonium nitrate fuel oil........

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You could barely hear this 50 pound bomb going off over the roar of the avalanche............

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Check out the expanding shock wave of the bomb. Way cool.....

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You can see the shock wave expanding..............

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There's probably pieces of crash test dummy shrapnel flying through the air at this point...............

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Even a 50 pounder is no match for a class three avalanche as it engulfs the explosion.....