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A BC Hydro technician crawls across porcelain insulators Wednesday on the 250-kilovolt transmission lines that cross Indian Arm. A helicopter lowered the worker into a buggy suspended from wires as much as 10 storeys off the water in order to perform required maintenance.
 

A BC Hydro technician crawls across porcelain insulators Wednesday on the 250-kilovolt transmission lines that cross Indian Arm. A helicopter lowered the worker into a buggy suspended from wires as much as 10 storeys off the water in order to perform required maintenance.

Photograph by: NEWS photo , Mike Wakefield

A BC Hydro technician crawls across porcelain insulators Wednesday on the 250-kilovolt transmission lines that cross Indian Arm. A helicopter lowered the worker into a buggy suspended from wires as much as 10 storeys off the water in order to perform required maintenance.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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A BC Hydro technician crawls across porcelain insulators Wednesday on the 250-kilovolt transmission lines that cross Indian Arm. A helicopter lowered the worker into a buggy suspended from wires as much as 10 storeys off the water in order to perform required maintenance.
 

A BC Hydro technician crawls across porcelain insulators Wednesday on the 250-kilovolt transmission lines that cross Indian Arm. A helicopter lowered the worker into a buggy suspended from wires as much as 10 storeys off the water in order to perform required maintenance.

Photograph by: NEWS photo , Mike Wakefield