In the early 70s, in the vicinity of the village of Begimbet (Aral Sea region, Bolshie Barsuki sands), a geological team of five people died due to a breakdown of the truck of the geological party.
As it turned out later, when the geologists drank all the water they had left, despair drove them from the shadow of the truck into the sands in search of salvation. They were unable to find either housing or water. The bodies were found only in the fall. The identities of the victims were identified with great difficulty, they were pretty much pecked by golden eagles and gnawed by desert foxes - Korsaks …
“Once on the way, we, Petersburg geologists, got lost,” says Sergei Pavlenko, a participant in other events in the same area. - The chauffeur turned out to be young, inexperienced, but arrogant, and as soon as we left the poorly trodden steppe track to hunt the bustard, carried away by hunting, we soon lost the right direction. It's good that I had some water with me and a barrel of gasoline. Fortunately for us, clouds of dust appeared from under the wheels of someone's car.
We started firing red rockets into the air, signaling that we needed help. Less than half an hour later, a jeep drove up to our truck, rolling over on the steppe ruts. In addition to the driver, there was one of the heads of the local geological department. We were all very happy about this meeting.
“Give me your card,” the manager asked. Having carefully looked at the tablet, he was surprised to say that with such a map it was not only possible to get lost, but to disappear. And he showed us his newest map. Our savior - his name was Georgy Fedotovich Teterev - announced that we had to get to the nearest hydrogeological well (there was no trace of it on our map), and there there was ice water - “at least fill up!”.
Everyone was surprised: where is there so much water in the semi-desert? Then Georgy Fedotovich told us that here, at a depth of 200-300 meters, there are whole seas of beautiful fresh water. It was recently explored by hydrogeologists, but that underground source, to which he advised us to go, helped to find one foreign specialist named Fred Maclow. His local geologists were invited from South Africa as a consultant.
As Georgy Fedotovich told us, Fred Maclow was a first-class dowser. In confirmation, he showed geologists newspapers and magazines with his portrait, where it was reported that thanks to him in South Africa and other African countries, large deposits of groundwater were discovered, including deep brines with rare elements.
The very next day, according to Teterev's story, Fred asked for a car, a driver and two of our specialists, who were well-versed in the terrain, to go with them to the Arkalyk area. Go. Arriving at the place, the guest walked two hundred meters away from all and, crossing his arms on his chest, wandered in a westerly direction. Everyone followed him.
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During a smoke break, Fred said that there is water here, but it is not very much and it is salty. "How do you know that?" - outraged one of our specialists, who spoke good English. “Did you ask me to help you find the high-rate artesian? - answered Fred. "You will receive it today."
After lunch, he himself drove the jeep along one known path and stopped it in a small steppe depression, where, according to our information, there should not be any water. Having passed half a kilometer with his hands clasped on his chest, he suddenly stopped, and then he began to shake from side to side, as if he was drunk! Geologists rushed to Fred, thinking that he was bad. And he was shaking as in a fever.
Suddenly the consultant dropped his hands, and his face turned pink, and before that it was white as chalk. He smiled broadly and asked to mark this place on the map. “The water is 350 meters deep, pressurized and of very high quality. Tomorrow I will also indicate the entire outline of the underground pool,”he announced. And he actually pointed out. The Glaucus, which finances the drilling, did not want to lend money for an application that had no geological reasoning.
But our management nevertheless knocked out the money under the personal responsibility of the chief hydrogeologist. Drilled. Locking operational equipment was installed. They opened the damper, and from the pipe, a column of ice water under pressure hit a hundred meters up! To celebrate, they arranged a banquet in honor of the consultant. When asked how he succeeds in all this, Fred only laughed it off, referring to the "secret of the profession." Then, having found several more sources of water, he went home.
Much later, Teterev managed to learn something about him. It turns out that his father George also had the ability to find water. One day, while traveling through the state of Colorado in the United States, George joined a group of gold diggers. And he witnessed their death from thirst. They didn't have enough water!
From shock or for some other reason, the soul of one of the victims appeared in a dream to Fred's father, who announced to him that he and his children would have the clairvoyance of water underground. For this, it was only important to fold your arms over your chest and pray to God that the soul of the deceased prospector would help the seeker find an underground source. In these moments, George began to see the soul of the deceased so clearly that he was shaking as in a fever and thrown from side to side. The vision of the soul took place exactly in the place where the underground source lay.
Maclowe's father and son are said to have made a lot of money by helping geologists and anyone who wants to find water. Surprisingly, Fred, in addition to finding the deposit, indicated both its reserves and the quality of the water.
Modern science can only do this on the basis of a huge amount of data and with the involvement of various specialists.
We thanked Teterev for helping us to get to the highway and leading us to the well, which was once drilled at the direction of Fred. Like children, we splashed in the cold water gushing with a fountain, not believing this miracle of miracles …"