[Not as well as he would have liked, either. But for a wreck, for a violent attack, there was still a lot more survivors against odds like they faced.]

Espionage is a way to use intel, yeah, but it's not always that. Intelligence includes the ability to efficiently locate resources, map areas, identify safe and hazardous locations, discern value of items or correctly identify them in general.

It's just how the intel is used that makes the difference between a spy or an archaeologist. I even knew a very talented woman [read: hot] who was an ornithologist who could accurately pinpoint locations in recordings from the birds she heard in the background.