During the extensive salvage of the one and a half weeks in a well shaft in Spain ousted Julen stood before on Wednesday the last Phase. Specially mine workers requested were waiting in the Andalusian Totalán on their use, work in 70 to 80 meters deep in a horizontal Tunnel where the two-year-old was suspected. The chances of finding the child alive, schwanden.
The beginning of the manual excavation was, in fact, already been planned on Tuesday, but the assistant on the new problems of the fastening and stabilization of the 80 meters were pushed deep parallel shaft. This had to be drilled in its lower part a broad, what was then to happen until Wednesday morning, media reported citing rescue workers.
Video 23.01.2019, 11:46 Uhr01:21 Min.Search Julen: mishaps and setbacks during the rescue work
On Wednesday afternoon, the helpers were employed in order to secure the rescue hole completely with metal pipes. Subsequently, the mine specialists should be able to record their work. What time is the use of the buddy was to begin, was still unclear.
it was Planned that the mine workers will be left by means of a special, a crane-mounted capsule in the parallel shaft. From the ground, you should dig with pickaxes and jackhammers, a four-Meter-long horizontal Tunnel, to get through to the child. The men would have to work under extreme conditions, because there is a lack in depth is not only space, but also to light and oxygen, wrote the newspaper “La Vanguardia”. Depending on the hardness of the rock may be smaller explosives were needed, it said.
The Boy was 13. January on a trip with his parents in the 107-metre-deep, probably illegally, in search of water-dug shaft like. This has a tiny diameter of only 25 to 30 centimeters. The Spanish television reported that the local judicial authorities in Malaga have begun an investigation to clarify the circumstances of the accident.
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in Total, some 300 helpers, day and night, in order to Julen. After a first balance sheet of the speaker, the use of force, Ángel García Vidal, were removed in the drilling of 40,000 tons of Material. “Under normal circumstances, such an action would take months,” he said.