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Mike Stanley

#Seismic #Equipment is #Astonishing


















The running joke in my house used to be how odd it was that I could see a mountain capped with snow, or a calm lake at sunrise and not be bothered.


For me, I was moved to excitement by driving past a construction site where the earth movers have made a huge mound of soil, or down a dead straight line of power poles, carrying miles upon miles of cables up, over or through anything that was in the way.


I was always captured by what humans could do and I could feel the hard work involved in industrial projects. Perhaps that's why I was so drawn by a seismic project. You take a group of men and women, ready to go into an unknown environment, and they explore, create, influence communities (sometimes good, sometimes bad), and #create #relationships. If there's a mountain in the way, you have to go over it, if there is a river in the way, you need to cross it, it's the environment that demands #finding #solutions and hard work.


Although aesthetic was likely the lowest priority when Sercel designed this DX-80T #seismic #vibrator, this photo of one in production in Saudi Arabia captured me. It looks like a bespoke timepiece. It's a machine of engineering genius, operational efficiency, and clockwork intricacy.





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