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In this photo, two of the crew carry a flushing pump through the jungle.

Daily Photo – Porters

Richard Davis January 11, 2013
Travel

In the photo below two of the crew port a flushing pump through the jungle. They weren’t the easiest things to carry. The coiled tube looped over the pole is the inlet hose. Others, out of the frame, have the fire hose that connected to the flushing tubes.

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Flushing was how we set both the explosives and hydrophones in Brunei. Fairly simpe - just pump a lot of water down the inside of the tube and it washes out the sand up the sides. Turn the tube with some pipe wrenches to prevent the tube from sticking in the hole.

Daily Photo – Flushing

Richard Davis January 10, 2013
Travel 3

It didn’t take a lot of horsepower to make the holes in which we set the explosives and hydrophones – just a water pump and a couple of guys with pipe wrenches. Water was relatively easy to come by. In most cases the crew only had the dig a sump one or two feet deep and place the filtered end of the inlet hose into the sump.

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