posted 03-30-2005 06:45 PM         

But today was a 1st for me and I've added one more life experience to tell my grandkids about. While out working on the subdivision, I got to watch and take a few pics of OMNI Oil Services Planting Dyanmite to do some Seismic testing. We had signed a lease for the Seismic Testing so it wasn't a surprise. These guys run around in these vehicles that look like army issue. They don't waste much time doing there job.

I did walk up to talk to them and they asked if I had a cell phone and I said yes. They said to turn it off as it may set off the dynamite...

They're drilling a 2" hole to 100' depth. They place a Dynamite charge at the bottom with a trip wire attached. From what I understand, once all the dynamite charges are planted and the recording devices are planted, a Recording truck will connect all the trip wires with some sort of recording device to capture the measurement data through ground vibrations from dynamite blowing up. From this data they can make a 3D map showing the different densities (whatever that means)...

One of these dynamite holes is right at the end of the subdivision and about 10 others are strung out through the sugan cane fields... This current survey is covering about 10 miles of property along the MS river...