.. is today your ‘Good Day To Die ?
.. well it depends eh.. !
Am mildly surprised - not a single soul has taken up ‘the telling of their tale’
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Drowning in the Atlantic Ocean while sightseeing @ Peggy’s Cove - Nova Scotia is hardly remarkable & in my view beyond dismal. If there’s an ‘upside’ I hope someone can explain doing so. Please feel free to return from the dead & explain thanks !
We’re talkin Micro Explosives for ‘scaling’ Refinery ‘Cracking Towers’ - the infamous ‘sausage style’ explosives in Stope Mines etc - and 18 wheeler Tanker Trucks pumping full the drilled bore holes approx 1’ in diameter a la Open Pit Tar Sands and/or Strip Mining for Precious Metals etc
.. to be continued.. as I reflect on those who have died since - This true story of mine is set Exactly Where ‘fate, luck.. whatever..’ Did Not Spare Them & several years later I read via newspaper word of their tragic passing.. nothing left to bury.. & a crater likely visible from low earth orbit..
continuing thanks.. three of us entered That Building .. freaky stuff, and in addition to servicing a Partner’s local Coal Mining - serviced a broad eastern market & other Partners out of this Bulk Packaging Building & ancillary external Storage & Pumping explosive slurry for transit to deliver into bore holes..
Typically coordination is High Test Protocol - Checklist / Testing / Emergency Test - just for us to be anywhere on that CIL Chemicals Complex.. & after several hours of live process shooting of product both indoors & on the Coal mine bore sites we finished with a simulation of safety procedures when the explosive slurry tanker was operating, refilling, in transit .. that stuff
The day done.. we were followed back & soon to pass the building when I glanced rear view again.. the tanker had fallen back enough that something hyper primal registers to this old farm kid.. hearing himself shouting ‘that hay wagon ain’t clearing the Elevated overhead Electricity cabling .. topside safety railing is still erect’
Absolute thrashing fireworks of sparks & torn cabling draping the tank & tearing it away from the building exterior - within 10 seconds though a stunned Security PR Officer had us headed for the hills & Lips Sealed - We were quickly processed off the vast site for hotel, showers, foods, drinks, talk .. & a fair bite of food for thought
Combining next day for travel with a stop at Peggy’s Cove - a lovely lunch was enjoyed despite the swirling mists & spatters of rain - and that bronze lighthouse reminder held very special meaning re the very sudden nature - of moments along our way 🏴☠️🦎