My experiences of crawling into 896 collapsed buildings with a total of 650,000 dead victims taught me the following:
Doug Copp searching one of the 896 collapsed buildings which have proven the validity of the ‘triangle of life’, to him.
You only need to know two words, to understand, how to live or die in a quake
‘next to” and ‘under’.
If you ‘duck and cover’ under something that is squashed then you will be squashed.
‘next to’ this large squashed object you survive, in the ‘triangle of life’ space, ‘next to’ it.
Large survivable spaces are next to large, bulky and squashed objects. The dead child is under the squashed desk. The live child is, in the aisle, ‘next to’ the squashed desk. Large spaces are found ‘next to’ big squashed things. You can survive there.
The ‘smear’ campaign against me is as large as the cost of surviving schoolchildren, to Insurance Companies warrants. That is OK; saving children’s lives, is worth it. Dead children cost USA Insurance Corporations nothing. Survivors cost a lot.
The USA Insurance Corporations think that maximizing profit (‘shareholder return’) is more important than life. I don’t agree and I have acted accordingly.
Search this blog for several ‘triangle of life’ posts. The links will take you to at least a hundred different ‘triangle of life’ materials: Videos, training films, text, pictures, diagrams, power point presentations, children’s ‘triangle of life’ cut out toys (from South America)
Triangle of Life Cut -out toys for South American children.
, ‘triangle of life‘ desks from Hong Kong and the China School System
This ‘t of l desk was purchased by the Ministry of Education, in mainland China, for ‘elite’ schools.
(You can, also, watch an actual video of a squashed desk here)
and much more. There is ‘triangle of life’ material in English, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, German, French and other languages.
Please distribute this material to any person you wish to survive building collapse. All free.
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Notice the Triangle of Life Formed on both sides of this large, bulky object.
doug copp
founder of ARTI ( the world’s most experienced rescue and disaster mitigation/management organization) and the Discoverer of the ‘triangle of life’ to take building collapse survivability from 2% using ‘duck and cover’ to 90% using the ‘triangle of life’
ARTI is composed of All Unpaid Volunteers
ARTI is composed of All Unpaid Volunteers
This is absolutely amazing. The seemingly “logical” thing to do, the “safe bet,” results in the opposite effect.
Thanks for the post. I hope the concept catches on.
All the best.