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Here a line crew Foreman (black and white striped shirt) engages with his crew taking a break while another crew works further up the line and a medic looks on.

Daily Photo – The Foreman

The foreman in this photo is not the onlooker on the left with his hands in his pockets but the man in the center of the team with the black and white striped shirt, using his hard hat to demonstrate some point or other.

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Seismic survey line cut through the jungle inland of Seria, Brunei, 1989.

Daily Photo – Jungle Line

After the surveyor cut his line, a ‘bridging crew’ would follow along behind and cut smaller trees to form a walkway, or bridge. Typically three poles wide and nailed together, it made walking the lines considerably easier for the rest of us and in most cases kept our feet dry also. It also meant that relatively few people were actually tromping across the jungle floor.

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