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Antônio was already not much interested in the fishing industry.
It was, however, in his community, the best option for securing a
livelihood. He started out fishing on the open sea, but realized early
on that he was not suited to this kind of work. With the experience
he gained working at Suape, he managed to get other jobs in Rio de
Janeiro, in the field of drilling and soil surveying.
Some years later, he returned from Rio to Pernambuco. Once
again, he found a second home at Suape.
- My first job at Suape as a surveyor involved measuring the ele-
vation of the land in the area that is now occupied by the refinery
to identify sea level. The first major earthworks carried out were to
provide access from the PE-60 highway to Petrobras.
With a 43-year history of working for Suape – and as an almost
lifelong resident of the region - Antônio looks back with the nos-
talgia of someone who has seen many things change. But he also
Back to the sea looks out to sea every day, knowing that the changes are designed
to make things better.
- I can’t pretend that I don’t feel threatened by the advance of
Born into a family that fished the sea for a living and brought technology, but nowadays I understand that it makes life better. In
up in the Suape region, Antônio Manoel da Hora is also one of the the past, it took me two or three months to finish a job, now, with
industrial port’s oldest members of staff. He has been working there the help of a drone, I can finish in four hours. I have great admiration
since 1979, shortly after the complex was created, giving up fishing for Suape, as someone who works there and as a private individual.
to train to work as a surveyor. It is fair to say that it has changed my life.

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