The emergency response team in the basement
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znapper — 10 years ago(September 22, 2015 07:00 AM)
It doesn't really make sense that they would suffocate to death.
If that was true, they would not have lasted 24 hours even.
They would have died during the ensuing fire-storms, also seeing they had to turn off the ventilation-system (probably some kind of filtered type) because of fire, that many people would not have been able to survive for days inside some air-tight (and fairly closed) space.
They may have resorted to some kind of backup-system with no filtering, we'll never know.
The rescue-team who finally arrived in the control-room, would have to wait until fires had died out -and radiation levels subsided, before starting to clear the rubble and make their way into the response-team.
Also, as I understand the time-line, they were inside the makeshift bunker for quite some time, because they were indeed coordinating relief-efforts, fire-brigades and food-distribution around the area for a good while.- Long enough to get on each other nerves, indicating that they survived both the fires and the radiation (more or less, they don't look good in the end, no showers, lacking sleep and god knows).
When the rescue-team breach the bunker, the lights are out. You don't get a good indication on how much time has passed (I need to check if it possible to determine from the narrator). But I've always had the impression that, at least when the rescue team finally break trough, considerable time has passed since the event (probably weeks).
I think they simply ran out of resources (food, water, energy) and died from thirst, hunger, radiation-poisoning, sickness or a combination of these.
- Long enough to get on each other nerves, indicating that they survived both the fires and the radiation (more or less, they don't look good in the end, no showers, lacking sleep and god knows).
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znapper — 10 years ago(September 29, 2015 06:52 AM)
I read up on this and the emergency response team only had food, water and fuel for 2 weeks.
This means that they would have ran out of food and water, or, if the fuel ran the air circulation units, they may have suffocated once that stopped.
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CorpseCandle — 10 years ago(October 02, 2015 04:48 PM)
I really don't mean to sound like I ma starting an arguement, but it makes all the sense in the world that they would have sufforcated.
The building above them would have been weak, not all of the debris from the blast would have fallen right after the blast. It is completely possible that over the few days after the bomb the building fell to bits piece by piece.
In fact this is one of the major dangers after an earthquake. Weak buildings continuing to crumble days after the event.
That said if dust from outside did reach the inside of the shelter I would say they all died of radiation poisioning.
Starvation takes a long, long time and they were found not long after any such time their rations could have been used up. -
gasmaskproductionsbooks — 10 years ago(November 11, 2015 07:07 PM)
That's sad or maybe they escaped through the air duct and the radiation made them mutate into zombies to roam the post-apocalyptic wasteland of what was once Sheffield. The world may never know.
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tgs333 — 10 years ago(November 12, 2015 06:50 AM)
Once the Cigarettes ran out and the Porta-Potty filled up, they probably killed each other off in a mad frenzy.
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JamesConway — 9 years ago(December 21, 2016 04:04 PM)
When they ask the authorities on the surface exactly how much rubble they are trapped under, the response given is flippant but brutally honest (much like Yorkshire folk in general)
"Close t'Town Hall I reckon"
(TRANSLATED AS: If you really want to know how much rubble is on top of you I will avoid giving vague estimates and merely inform you that as much of the Town Hall that could be on top of you is, the whole lot)
Around halfway through their existance in the bunker the radio operator who appears in bad health and is wheezing dismisses the converstaion and instead abruptly questions what those on the surface are doing in regards to digging them out. The answer is that the heavy lifting gear required can't get through as the roads are blocked.
It's tough to acertain exactly how they died, most probably they all died of varying ailments brought on by varying issues within the bunker. No food, no water, poor sanitation, poor air circulation and the onset of stress induced exhaustion.
As for the time, well it can't have been much longer than the two week expiry period otherwise the soilders who eventually reach the bunker wouldn't have wasted their time and effort in digging them out.
As an aside, my theory is that once the soilders reached the bunker and found the seat of local government dead the post-war adminstration will have been centred in on a much more military biased direction. -
gasmaskproductionsbooks — 9 years ago(December 21, 2016 11:13 PM)
I agree. The whole shelter experience for the response team was probably akin to being buried alive underground. Cramped, traumatic, stuffy, dirty and frightening. The bad sanitation could have contributed significantly. Germs and bacteria thrive in places with bad plumbing and no real sanitation system. The feeling of dying and being trapped underground probably affected them mentally as well. It's a really sad moment in the film but also really realistic and something that people probably wouldn't even consider in the event of a nuclear war. Every civilian believed the propaganda and believed they would be safe, and I think the emergency response team were just as fooled into believing they would be secure and safe in the event.
Canada, eh?
"The 21st century is all flash but no substance." ~ Smog City