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Very interesting project and well put together documentary. My only criticism of the documentary is the use of the African background track. Surely, it would have been more contextual to contract a local band from Hela Province to produce a background track.
So I landed today in ms flight simulator and found it weird that there's an airport in the middle of nowhere with instrument landing system, now I know that gas paid for it :)
Remember that this is all forced on the indigenous (Black) People/ indigenous People of Papua New Guinea. They did not agree even if they had cheered this on
Thanks for your question. The tank started out as a large concrete ring that was lowered by controlled excavation, step by step using the forces of gravity and its own weight until the whole structure was underground. The tank walls were built in three stages as an excavator worked systematically to remove earth from inside the tank. Once each wall section had gone down four metres (over a two week period) the next concrete wall layer was poured on top and the process repeated until all three sections were set and sunk. There were other ways the tank was engineered to ensure it sank in a uniform fashion. One was the ‘cutting shoe’ which was built for the bottom of the tank wall and helped it slice down into the earth. The outside of the walls were also lubricated to help reduce friction between the tank and the surrounding ground.
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