K.J. Becker from Port-Elisabeth in the SAR, the employee of 'General Motors', has the ability to feel water.
First he showed his ability at public in 1951, when the huge plant was being built near Port-Elisabeth. Considerable amount of water was required to set the plant going, but the problem was that it was semiarid zone. The leadership of the company decided to drill a borehole. The required measurements were carried out, the place was decided and the equipment was set. At this moment Becker warned the head of the complex supply department that the drillers wouldn't find there water, maybe a bit of salted water at the depth of 45 meters.
However, the borehole was drilled, and it appeared that Becker's words were true. The head of the department found him and asked to find good water. Usually dowsers use a willow twig, but Becker did without it. He crossed his arms on the chest tight and started walking to and fro. In a half hour he stopped and asked to mark the place. People saw that Becker was shuddering and chattering. 'There is a lot of good water, - said Becker - that's exactly what we need'. After marking that place, he started wandering around again until he started shuddering again. The second point was in 500 meters from the first one and it was also marked.
The leadership of 'Generals Motors', believing it to be charlatanry, made Becker to repeat it, but with eyes closed, and he pointed the same places again. After that the money for drilling was given. And there appeared so much water in one borehole, that drilling the second one wasn't needed.
As for the Becker, it wasn't the first time when he used his abilities. He was born in the dry, in 40 km from Port-Elisabeth. Farmers, who lived there had no choice: either to find water, or to go broke. Becker's grandfather was the master on finding water. That was he, who taught him to cross the arms tight on the chest and go to and fro, until the shudder appeared.
Becker says 'I feel that I can tell salt water from sweet water, if I hold silver coin in one hand and a copper in another. If the water is sweet the hand with a silver coin is vibrating, if the water is salty, the hand with a copper is vibrating. I don't know why it happens'
'If I stand above an underground spring, I shudder, but if I open my arms, the vibration stops gradually. If I stand with stream the vibration also stops, if against it - the shudder appears. I think the level of vibration depends on the power of the stream.'
