Bbc Tv Crew Caught Out In Mt Etna

[emmie]

wonder quite what they were doing there.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39293086

[emmie]

very very lucky, this could have been a total disaster.

[donny48]

Rebecca Morelle's team was on site filming for a report about advances in volcano monitoring. What happened illustrates just how much we still need to learn about these mountains.

[emmie]

i was in Greece where we went up to a volcano, supposedly dormant, even so i wouldn't go down to the crater, the smell was appalling.

[Arksided]

They were very lucky, it'd be too scary for me to venture into the crater such is the unpredictability of nature.

[mikey4444]

I have just watched this news clip and I think that everybody was very lucky.

[emmie]

so do i.

[emmie]

10 injured, the thing has blown three times in the last few weeks, so why do it.

[DTCwordfan]

very lucky, though normally Etna is much more predictable...a Pelean volcano it is not.....However, go close and you take a risk. I wonder who did the HSE assessment!

[emmie]

don't know but the volcanologist they were with said it was safe!

[Arksided]

Why indeed? a 78 year old woman was close to the blast. She doesn't sound like an ex-marine type with mountaineering skills to boot (I'm not saying she isn't) but that's who's you'd send in knowing it was unstable and so desperate for new sensing equipment to be placed there. If indeed that's what they were there for.