This is pretty much the most utterly ridiculous and stupidest question you have probably ever seen on here (my apologies ahead of time for asking it), but is there any chance that they were able to drop some kind of food or water for this little guy, in case he was alive? I know, really stupid...but I have to ask. It would be in my opinion, the only way that little guy would be alive.
I would have expected it to be reported if anything like that had been done
I haven't even seen any updates about them putting oxygen down the hole to increase oxygen levels down there. And it does surprise me if they haven't done that?