A Last Chance - Hardcover

Daum, Kaz

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 145353072X ISBN 13: 9781453530726

Publisher: Xlibris, 2010

Synopsis

Part 1 The Test of Time Icy winds have been blowing continuously for nine days Jon walked slowly towards the drilling site slapping his shoulders to keep warm Normally he was clean shaven but he was now thankful for having grown his beard It has been eight hours since he last felt the warmth of the heated office back at the base camp Now would be the time for a nice mug of steaming hot coffee he thought Through the snow which started as a blizzard at 5 00 a m but had now thankfully dwindled to a steady fall of snow with visibility reduced to ten meters Jon heard the distant faint rumble of the Powertech drilling machine The drilling had started in the morning of the fourth of November thirteen days ago When they started the weather forecast had been favorable with prospects of clear weather holding for at least the remainder of the month Four days into the drilling their luck had changed for the worse the weather turned without warning into a snow blizzard within a matter of hours It had taken Jon and his two man crew the best part of two hours to try and secure all equipment Because of the extreme windchill factor of 49C they were not successful in locking down all equipment and machinery This had resulted in the loss of one of the two snowmobiles The gusting wind had been so strong that it became impossible to properly secure the twenty meter high mast of the drilling machine During the blizzard it had toppled forward and fallen onto the two snowmobiles that were their only means of transport in this barren stretch of snow and ice filled land known as Antarctica In the past few days Jon has managed to use parts from one of the snowmobiles to render the other serviceable How did this all start he thinks back It s Jon s fifty first project with the South African company Eneco Holdings Pty Ltd the company founded and run by his best friend and major shareholder Jason Menton In his twenty six years of service with the company

About this edition

• Publisher: Xlibris
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 145353072X
• ISBN 13: 9781453530726
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 302