Real life minesweeper6/5/2023 ![]() ![]() Land mines are planted in fields, forests, around wells, water sources, and hydroelectric installations, making these unusable, or usable only at great risk. In many of the most affected areas of the world, agriculture is the mainstay of the economy.In the United States, the rate of amputation is 1 for every 22 000 people. The most common injury associated with land mines is loss of one or more limbs.For humanitarian mine clearing it is obvious that the system must have a detection rate approaching the perfection of 99.6%. For the military, mine detection rates of 80% are accepted since all the military needs are a quick breach in a minefield.If demining efforts remain about the same as they are now, and no new mines are laid, it will still take 1100 years to get rid of all the world’s active land mines.Until recently, about 100 000 mines were being removed, and about two million more were planted each year.Egypt, Angola, and Iran account for more than 85 per cent of the total number of mine-related casualties in the world each year. The areas most affected by land mines include: Egypt (23 million, mostly in border regions) Angola (9-15 million) Iran (16 million) Afghanistan (about 10 million) Iraq (10 million) China (10 million) Cambodia (up to 10 million) Mozambique (about 2 million) Bosnia (2-3 million) Croatia (2 million) Somalia (up to 2 million in the North) Eritrea (1 million) and Sudan (1 million).Mines create millions of refugees or internally displaced people.However, in some regions, 30 per cent of the victims are women. Overall, about 85 per cent of reported land mine casualties are men, many of whom are soldiers.One deminer is killed and two injured for every 5000 successfully removed mines.Mine and explosive remnant of war casualties occur in every region of the world, causing an estimated 15,000 – 20,000 injuries each year.Mines kill or maim more than 5,000 people annually.According to Landmine Monitor, number of landmine and UXO casualties was 11,700 in 20 in 2011. ![]() According to the ‘International Campaign to Ban Landmines network’, more than 4,200 people, of whom 42% are children, have been falling victim to landmines and ERWs annually in many of the countries affected by war or in post-conflict situations around the world.The cost of removing all existing mines would be $50- to $100-billion.Mines cost between $3 and $30, but the cost of removing them is $300 to $1000.An equal amount is in stockpiles waiting to be planted or destroyed. It is estimated that there are 110 million land mines in the ground right now.The following facts reflect the seriousness of this problem: As this map shows, there is still a long way to go before the world is free of anti-personnel landmines. The simplicity and cost-effectiveness of mines are major factors in explaining the widespread use of mines throughout the numerous countries that are now faced with dealing with the mine contamination problem.ĭetection and removal of antipersonnel landmines is, at the present time, a serious problem of political, economical, environmental and humanitarian dimension. Also, a Richard Avedon portrait of Cousteau can be seen behind Owen Wilson and James Caan’s characters in Bottle Rocket when the two are at a party.Paul Jefferson, one of the earliest humanitarian deminers said “ a landmine is the perfect soldier: Ever courageous, never sleeps, never misses”. ![]() Cousteau can also be found in other Wes Anderson movies: Max Fischer, the lead character from Rushmore, finds an inscription in the book Diving for Sunken Treasure by Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Philippe Diole, which leads him to Miss Cross. Cousteau's crew wore red knit caps and uniforms, and his son Phillipe was tragically killed in a plane crash.ģ. The character of Zissou was originally supposed to be named “Steve Cousteau,” and besides being an ocean-documentarian like the fictitious Zissou, Cousteau also had a research vessel named the Calypso (Zizzou’s is the Belafonte), which, like Zissou’s ship, had a mini-sub, a gyrocopter, and a research balloon. Many of the details in the movie mirror Cousteau’s real life. Anderson was also inspired to make the movie because of one of his childhood heroes: Jacques-Yves Cousteau, the popular oceanographer and adventurer. ![]()
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