This guys sure does have a serious pair of humongous balls to do this for a living. I don’t know about you, but even for a few hundred k’s per year, I wouldn’t even want this job.
His suit is 75% Nomex to prevent him from catching on fire and 25% stainless steel thread, which creates a faraday cage around him that pumps about a half a million volts around him at all times. The steel allows the electricity to flow around the outside of his suit, completing a circuit, but none of it touches him.
[Via Gizmodo]
The helicopter pilot has skills too. His job is obviously not as dangerous as the inspector guy but still…
That's fantastic, would be such a cool job in decent climates, probably not so enjoyable over here in the UK with our weather!
Just climbing on that high wire would give me the heebie geebies, even if it wasn't energized.
Damn that pilot has the skills.
I'd love that job. You get to ride shotgun on a helicopter and get a kickass view. Where do I sign up?!
notice the other guy doing the same in the background?
BALLS OF STEEL
Those can't be good to have inside a Faraday cage.
and they think alaskan crab fishing is the most dangerous! psh yeah right!