Ian Moore – Ear protection

The only ear protection we actually had … we had ear muffs or commonly called a ‘clamp’.

You could have a clamp that you could put on your head, but in this day and age, it would be no different to putting cotton wool in your ears.

I mean they were just useless, absolutely useless.

The sound hearing protection that they use these days is far superior to what we had back then, but essentially two 16-cylinder diesel engines, banging away in a compartment that is sort of 40 feet long by 18 feet across and maybe 10 feet high, it was similar to sort of sticking your head without ear defenders, sticking you head between 2 people using jack hammers either side of your brain.

Simon: And you’re in that all day.

And you’re in that all day, every day.