It was on 13 January that the two-year boy fell down in a drill hole in connection with an excursion with his parents in Totalán outside Malaga in Spain. Since then, a massive räddningsuppbåd struggled to get up the boy that you think is somewhere under 73 meters of depth.
got some sign of life from tvååringen, but you have found hairs belonging to him.
On Tuesday, after nine days – announced the rescue team to the final stage of the drilling was completed and the excavation of the tunnel up to the tvååringen would start, writes El Pais. It is believed that the boy is stuck in a 15 metre deep cavity.
According to the jrcc hope to come up to the boy on Tuesday afternoon.
the action has been much more complicated and time-consuming than they had expected. On Sunday, the work to be interrupted when the drill hit a hard stone that could get the horizontal tunnel to crumble. Something that delayed the work approximately 40 hours.
” we have encountered harder rock in the new hole as it drills, it has delayed the operation. Our special equipment can measure down to 2000 meters depth, ” says Berne Selberg, an advisor to the company Stockholm Precision Tools to SVT News.
The Swedish company is there with special measuring equipment, a kind of gps meter below the soil. SPT also took part in a rescue mission in Chile in 2010 when 33 miners become trapped after an accident. They were found after 69 days.
Juan López Escobar is the tunnel the most dangerous and the most delicate part of the operation.
– It is complicated and can be dangerous for räddningsteamets life, he says, according to Reuters.
the Hole occurred at a exploration in the area and is estimated to be about 100 feet deep and between 20 to 40 centimeters in diameter.
the Excavation will be done by hand, using explosives is too risky and may cause further landslides. At the same time it is very physical demanding and, therefore, will the miners work in pairs in about two hours and then replaced.
entering the tunnel will try to drill a hole of 20 centimeters in diameter and inserting a camera to see if the boy is on the level. And then be able to bring him out, ” says Juan López Escobar for El Pais.
Hope that tvååringen shall be found alive, however, is small.
Now begins the rescue workers drill for the boy in the hole
Graphics: So to the rescue of the boy go to the
