A helicopter of the Guardia Civil is hovering over the 352-Meter-high hill, Cerro de la Corona, close to the southern Spanish village of Totalán. On Board the helicopter has explosive charge. He creates new explosives from the 160 kilometres away in Seville, to blast the Rock, a last resort, to finally reach the two-year-old Julen. The Boy is stuck for twelve days in a depth of 70 metres in a narrow borehole. Only the greatest optimists hope that the asthma sick child may still be alive.
Jorge Martín is head of the local Guardia Civil, the paramilitary police unit in the country, which logistically, but discipline does not direct the use while Seating. Because Julen should be dead, you need to exclude the investigators first of all a crime. An autopsy should clarify the cause of death. Officially, however, the responsible for the spread of the last spark of hope, that in happy circumstances might save the life of the child.
this mountain is in almost two weeks as a tough adversary of all rescue plans. “We do not determine the rhythm of work, of the mountain determines it,” says Martín. The Querstreb want to dig eight miners from the rescue shaft over to the place, thought to be at the Julen, is at this time only one and a half meters deep. The Rock fights mercilessly against a faster rise.
The rescuers will go to the limits of their capabilities
The men go down there to the limits of their physical capacity. Always the two of you are in the shaft. Their freedom of movement in the steel lining is massively restricted. After 30 to 40 minutes, you will be replaced. From the family of the boy, it means that the experts have offered, that they would have been without the lining in depth. The management had rejected the proposal but that the men climb into an unsecured hole.
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On Friday set fire to the experts of the Guardia Civil in the shaft of the third load of explosives. The procedure of free grueling a lot of time, more than two hours. Juan López Escobar mining specialist from the engineering College in Málaga. There is no other way than to blow up? “The Drilling would take longer,” says Escobar. After all, there is good news. The third explosion has created a Meter more space. Now it is supposed to be only 150 centimeters, the absence of the shaft. On further detonations had to be abandon because of that. Now the miners are in demand again, the hammers need to with picks and small compressed air the way. Escobar once again urged the journalists on the ground. “These mountain people are absolute specialists in what they do down there. But they are no heroes.“