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This photo of a Tunisian Desert Sunset was taken in Tunisia – quel surprise! I only spent a couple of months in the Tunisian desert but I remember it was in the winter. It was cold at night and we were billeted in single-walled canvas tents rather than the heated trailers we used in Libya. I recall we had three-bar electric heaters to try and take the edge off the cold but you could only run two bars at most […]
Continuing with my series of posts on the story of the Lady Be Good. Toner’s Diary: SUNDAY, April 11, 1943 Still waiting for help, still praying, eyes bad, lost all our wgt. aching all over, could make it if we had water; just enough left to put our tongue to, have hope for help very soon, no rest, still same place. Ripslinger’s Diary: SUNDAY, April 11, 1943 Palm Sun. Still struggling to get out of dunes and find water. Toner’s […]
Uphole drilling in Libya. The drill here is a Mayhew 1000 mounted on a MOL 6×6 truck.
When I first went to Libya in 1984 I was an ‘Assistant Seismologist’. My job function was to determine the static corrections needed to apply to the seismic data so it all made sense in the processing cycle. To do this we had a couple of Mayhew 1000 drilling rigs mounted on Belgian MOL trucks. They’d go out to the location we directed and drill typically a 10 cm diameter hole to a depth of up to 100 meters. I’d […]
