The recovery of the in a well shaft ousted two years, Julen, in Spain, stands before the decisive Phase. After drilling a parallel shaft late on Monday evening completed, they wanted to mine workers start at midday on Tuesday to dig up manually a four-metre-long Tunnel. So you want to go horizontally to the point at which the child is suspected, such as Spanish media reported, citing the use of force in Totalán in the vicinity of the Andalusian of Málaga.
How long you was unclear. Experts feared, however, that further 24 hours could be necessary to fight through the rocks. You should work with pickaxes and jackhammers. However, it can be dropped due to limited space, only two workers at the same time with a special on a crane-mounted capsule in the 80-Meter-deep Parallel-shaft down, as the newspaper “La Vanguardia” wrote.
Previously, but were still attached to the walls of a vertical rescue hole with metal pipes and helps to prevent landslides and to prevent and to ensure the safety of the workers. However, the rescuers found on Tuesday on the new problems. It was necessary to drill the vertical shaft in its lower part a broad, said a Spanish Journalist on the spot. How long this might take, was not in sight.
The shaft, in the Julen at 13. January was like a trip with his parents, is 107 meters deep, has a diameter of only 25 to 30 centimeters. According to media reports, he had been illegally drilled in search of water.
The rescuers hope to be able to the child at a depth of 70 to 80 meters. In the case of camera shots, a bag of candy was discovered in the shaft in a well 70 meters deep, the Julen had. Loose earth are prevented, but a deeper Penetration with the camera. Signs of life of the child.
During the drilling of the Parallel-shaft had been initially a platform for the stabilization of the drill in such a depth of 20 metres is appropriate. In order to reach the target depth of 80 meters, were drilled to Monday night, in arduous, 55 hours of work a further 60 meters in the extremely hard Rock.
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