Monthly:June 2013
So here’s a wider shot of the end of the line. Well, not the end actually, more of a hiatus. The line continued up here on the top of the escarpment but all the trucks had to drive around to the nearest wadi or road we cut that provided access.
In today’s shot the four seismic vibrators are working their way, single file, along a bulldozed track and shaking the foothills of the escarpment.
Although this looks at first glance to be an aerial shot, I’m actually standing on the on terra firma for this shot of our vibs approaching the escarpment.
Things are looking down or, perhaps more appropriately, I’m looking down on things. Western Libya, 1990, and four Birdwagen Mark III’s with Failing Y1100 vibrators approach the bottom of the escarpment.
When you stand relatively close to a seismic vibrator you can literally feel the earth shaking. I don’t know if you could feel this jebel shaking or not but certainly had we set geophones on it we’d have detected it shaking.
Actually I’ve no idea whether or not this road construction next 5 miles tag is accurate or not. It’s often hard to tell distance in the desert, particularly on these hazy days.
