MYTHS AND FACTS . . .
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MYTH
We have to jump from the helicopter with our equipment and everything, from a height of about 2-3m. And we have to do it everyday. No worries, because the ground will have shrubbery to break our fall.
FACT
"Siao lah! You all want to break your legs is it?" – Company 2IC
1. We're working at a field landing-pad for helicopters: how is it that the helicopter will not land?
2. How are we going to climb back on board the helicopter when we leave the place?
3. Won't our equipment get damaged?
4. Even with vegetation below we'd still injure ourselves jumping from such a height.
5. Talking about jumping from helicopters, the distance is no more than a metre.
6. Have you watched those war movies? The helicopter simply hovers slightly above the ground and everybody just leaps off.
7. We're going to ship in heavy equipment to be slung under the helicopter. Is that going to be dropped 2-3m off the ground as well?
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MYTH
Our new chainsaws will be so light that we can just use one hand to handle like – like swiping a Light Sabre at the tree.
FACT
1. The new chainsaws are 90cc heavy duty. The current ones are only 70cc. That is unless you can't differentiate if 90 is larger than 70 or not.
2. The trees there probably have a diameter of 60cm . . . how on earth are you going to chop it down with a mini chainsaw? Might as well use an axe!
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MYTH
We'll be using the wood from the chopped trees to make a fire.
FACT
Wood from chopped trees still contains moisture. All we'll get is smoke. Honestly dry wood is a rarity in the moist and wet jungle. So solid fuel's the way.
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MYTH
We'll build a fire underneath the hammock, so that the smoke will rise up on the sides and keep out mosquitoes.
FACT
Either we suffocate to death or burn ourselves.
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And he keeps bragging to us that he's been to Brunei before, he knows how to survive there, so those people under his leadership are apt to survive better.
He's only gone once, not even for the jungle survival course. Come on, there are people in the company who have gone up for three times already . . .
