HOW PEOPLE LIVE IN COOBER PEDY | Half The Town Lives Underground | 4K Documentary

Half the people of Coober Pedy live underground. In the middle of the Australian desert, where the air hits 45°C in the shade, families carve their homes, churches and even a hotel out of solid rock, and a new bedroom can come with a seam of opal in the wall.

This documentary goes down into the opal capital of the world: the boy who discovered opal in 1915 while he was supposed to be minding camp, miners from more than 40 countries, dugout homes that stay at 24°C all year, a golf course with no grass, road signs warning you not to walk backwards, the 17,000-carat Olympic Australis opal, the spaceship Hollywood left behind, and a town that is slowly growing old.

CHAPTERS
00:00 Do not walk backwards
01:24 The road to nowhere
02:38 Why they went underground
04:01 White man in a hole
05:10 1915: the boy who found fire
06:33 What opal really is
07:57 Rush town: 40 nationalities
09:20 Inside a dugout home
10:51 Legends under the hills
12:08 Churches in the rock
13:29 Golf with no grass
14:51 Water, explosives and 250,000 holes
16:19 Mad Max, spaceships and the Moon Plain
17:42 The biggest opal ever found
19:04 Noodling: anyone can get lucky
20:30 A town growing old
21:52 Why they stay

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