In order to investigate a new technique of cable corrosion mitigation that was just being undertaken,National Geographic's World's Tough-est Fixes host Sean Riley visited the Forth Road Bridge located in South Queensferry,Scotland. (The show aired in May 2010.)Riley's job was to help tie Ethernet wire to cables while hanging some 300 feet above the bridge's road deck. The wires went from cable monitors down to a computer below that would help engineers know when a wire in one of the two main cables of the bridge had broken. As a master rigger,Riley enjoys the feel of the “air under my feet,swinging in the breeze,” and this is a job that not too many people in the world could tackle.
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