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Has anyone been able to find a picture of little Julen?
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Has anyone been able to find a picture of little Julen?
Early Tuesday morning, Civil Guard officers worked to remove material from the well but without success. The depth of the hole has made the work difficult and the team were only able to remove 60 centimeters of soil and rock. A robotic camera also hit another barrier of material just 80 meters under the ground.
The rescue team have now decided to excavate a horizontal tunnel to the well, taking advantage of the slope of the hillside. But time is running out to find the toddler alive. His survival is based on the belief that there is an air bubble underground. As the tunnel is being bored, Civil Guard officers are continuing to excavate the well with an air suction machine.
Search continues for toddler thought to have fallen into 100-meter-deep well
There's one thing about this whole thing that I find a bit odd. Maybe someone can enlighten me! The hole is pretty narrow (I think I read 25cm diameter). How come they found a bag of sweets and (I think) plastic cup belonging to the child, but not the child himself? I would have expected these items to fall down the hole more easily and have got deeper down than the child as they are smaller. Yet they have found those but no trace of the child. Doesn't that seem a bit odd?
This DM article names the boy as Yulen (most likely because of the Spanish pronounciation of "J" and DM's well-known lack of proofreading) but a later article names him as Julen, no "i". There are pictures of the hole (so tiny! 15 in/38cm) and the area were it's located.
Boy falls down well in Spain, prompting race against time search | Daily Mail Online
Rescue operation to save boy who fell down well in Spain continues | Daily Mail Online
It's not looking good. Apparently an additional problem with tunneling horizontally to the hole is that it needs to be cased in order to keep it from collapsing. I guess that means using some sort of material to line it as they tunnel.
I'm still not clear on whether rescuers believe Julen is at the bottom of the hole or stuck somewhere closer to the surface.
So is he claiming that the well zig and zags?
That would make absolutely no sense for a well.
Has anyone been able to find a picture of little Julen?
From NBC:
"Rescue workers were attempting to widen the passage to allow the camera to go deeper, Pilar Limon, a spokesperson for the Emergencies Coordination Unit, told NBC News."
Two things from the German video above ^^
It's damp and cold in the "hole".
This does not seem to be a well but a hole created during "exploratory boring".
Gut übersetzt!Two things from the German video above ^^
It's damp and cold in the "hole".
This does not seem to be a well but a hole created during "exploratory boring".
So is he claiming that the well zig and zags?
That would make absolutely no sense for a well.
I think he might be referring to something I encountered when I worked for an oil & gas drilling contractor. We had to submit inclination reports to the TX railroad commission for the wells we drilled because once you drill to a certain depth, the rotating motion of the drill will naturally cause slight directional variances which can accumulate substantially depending on the depth of the well. So basically, where the hole starts at the surface might be several feet or meters away from where the bottom of the well is in the earth. I believe the reports were necessary in case of a mineral rights dispute.