Originally Posted by
JDNSW
Sounds a bit like the case on a field crew in Papua fifty years ago. The observer's expat offsider was sent along the line looking for a cable fault, with a local to carry test gear. This particular line was in a kunai swamp, and they were walking through waist deep water (no wonder there was a cable fault), when a croc surfaced a few metres away. The expat made record speed walking on water to the nearest tree, where the local (who had been behind him), reached down to help him up. They remained up the tree until another man was sent along to see why they had not reported in, about an hour later. No sign of the croc after the initial sighting.
As an aside, it was just near there that the Brisbane head office sent the accountant out to check on why progress was so slow. We dropped him off at one helipad and walked him along to the next, about half a mile away - wading waist deep in water, grass standing 2m high above the line ensuring not a breath of breeze, sun directly overhead, temperature around 35C, humidity close to 100%. We thought he was going to die on us, but he got his data, and we sent him back to make his report. Never had any more trouble from him. (Did I mention the leeches?)
