Photographer captures firefighter losing his life cleaning up Dalian oil spills
August 3rd, 2010 by Key | Posted in News | 12 Comments »July 16, 2010, an oil pipeline explosion accident happened in Dalian, the fire was put out after 15 hours of burning. The cause of the accident was still under investigation. According to CCTV, about 400,000 gallon of oil was spilled into the Yellow Sea, which heavily polluted over 160 square kilometers of the sea water. (The BP oil spills at the Gulf of Mexico was over 100 million gallons)
(From Daqi) A photographer, in 334 seconds, captured the death of a firefighter when cleaning up the oil spill.
Out of curiosity, a photographer from Zhejiang aimed his camera at the Dalian firefighters cleaning up the oil spill in the ocean. He said, “never thought he would have died…”
Two firefighters are cleaning up the water pump in the ocean.
Zhang Liang cuts the rope line between the floating water pump and the fishing boat
Zhang Liang and Han Xiaoxiong constantly enter the water to clean the trash in the water pump
Zhang Liang throws away the knife
Zhang Liang points towards the deeper end, signaling to push the floating water pump to deeper water.
As if Zhang Liang was pushed by someone, he was separated from the floating water pump
Two of them were trapped by the thick crude oil on the surface of the ocean
Two of them are sinking deeper
Half of Zhang Liang’s face are swallowed by the oil
Zhang Liang’s face is swallowed by oil, he closed his eyes with painful expression
A solider wearing camouflage shirt opens up his arms
Zheng Zhanhong enters the water and uses his momentum to constantly sweep away the black oil
Zheng Zhanzhong continuously uses his hands to sweep away the oil
Zhang Liang’s entire head is submerged by oil
Han Xiaoxiong grasps Zhang Liang’s one black hand
Han Xiaoxiong holds Zhang Liang’s hand above water
The black hand keeps on sinking
Han Xiaoxiong once again wants to lift Zhang Liang up
Zhang Liang’s hand sinks into the ocean
Two of them swam towards the little boat
Zhengzhan Hong and Han Xiaoxiong climb to the fishing boat with the ocean currents
Getting onto the boat
Helping Han Xiaohong to get on the boat
Body covered with black oil, two men screened towards the black oil
Whole body covered by black oil
People anxiously waiting at the shore
Driving the boat toward the shore
The boat reaches the shore
Rescuing Han Xiaoxiong who is passed out
Han Xiaoxiong is recued at the shore
Tags: Dalian, Death, Firefighter, oil spills, Pollution, Pollution in China, Sad
Wear a fucking life jacket. Safety 101.
It’s not just water but oil…so a life jacket might have given him a bit longer to be rescued. The proper safety of the cleaning crew is once again neglected. It’s like the armed police not having enough vests for all its personnel.
RIP.
As much as I regret about the accident, it shows the striking feature of Asian culture – whenever somebody is getting robbed, beaten or killed, most people would just watch and have fun.
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What are you talking about? Three guys in regular clothes are helping get the firefighter out of the water. As for the photographer helping, the text doesn’t say if it is a professional news photographer or not but judging from how well the shots are composed and the variety of lenses used, it just might be and they just take pictures in every culture.
Yeah, because you would be the first to jump into the water to rescue the guy..
I hate to read stories like this, bc it keeps reminding me of how cruel life can be.
Very unfortunate incident.
“oil pipeline explosion accident happened in Dalian”
so which company s going to be bankrupted by compensation claims?
answer: ha ha very funny
Very sad, this young man had much of life ahead of him. Can anyone explain why this may have happened? Just currents?
That was intense!
What a terrible situation to experience.
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