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=== Past Accidents === | |||
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* Rescue methods included digging a pit parallel to where the child was trapped using large excavators (up to 40 in one instance). | * Rescue methods included digging a pit parallel to where the child was trapped using large excavators (up to 40 in one instance). | ||
* Saving these children could often require a team consisting of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) team army, fire brigade, police and health officials. | * Saving these children could often require a team consisting of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) team army, fire brigade, police and health officials. | ||
* Geological obstacles included huge rocks or slab which would have to be broken up in order to dig a pit down to where the child was. | * Geological obstacles included huge rocks or slab which would have to be broken up in order to dig a pit down to where the child was | ||
* Oxygen would be pumped to the holes during rescue missions, but no food could be sent down | |||
'''''Boy, 10, declared dead after falling into 115-feet deep construction site hole in Vietnam''''' https://www.cbsnews.com/news/boy-who-fell-into-115-feet-deep-construction-site-hole-in-vietnam-declared-dead/ | |||
* After 100 soldiers spent almost 100 hours a 10 year old boy could not be saved after being trapped for 5 days | |||
* The hole was 10 inches (25.4 cm) wide and 115 ft (35.052 m) deep | |||
* Rescuers attempted to use a 62-foot metal pipe to rescue the boy while oxygen was being pumped into the hole | |||
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=== Problems With Current Rescue Methods === | |||
'''''Explained: How borewell rescues are attempted, why they often fail''''' https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-how-borewell-rescues-are-attempted-why-they-often-fail-6094949/#:~:text=Most%20commonly%2C%20a%20parallel%20hole,rescue%20workers%20and%20heavy%20machinery. | |||
* On average, 70% of rescue operations are unsuccessful | |||
* Borewells are wells that can be 100-1500 feet deep and fit pipes of 6-12 inches in diameter in order to extract water to irrigate land | |||
* Key factors that affect the rescue mission's chance of success include: | |||
** Incident type | |||
** Location | |||
** Depth and diameter of borehole | |||
** Availability of equipment for digging, oxygen, doctors, ambulances and lights | |||
** Type of soil | |||
* Problems with digging a parallel hole and diging a horizontal hole to the hole where the child is: | |||
** Needs large amounts of resources (rescue workers, machines) | |||
** Too time-consuming | |||
** Hard rocks can get in the way of the digging and cause delays | |||
'''''Infant Girl Rescued from DANGEROUS Well Shaft in Thailand''''' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwNHVP34C8U&ab_channel=OnDemandNews | |||
* When digging holes, rescue workers have to be very careful to avoid letting the shaft collapse or letting debris fall in | |||
'''''Rescue 911: Small Boy vs. Deep Hole''''' | |||
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THnTA6Of0qM&ab_channel=brokkenp | |||
* The more people get inovlved and look into the hole where the child is, the more dust gets kicked in accidentally and covers the child | |||
* Water can rise at the bottom and make it harder to dig | |||
* It can be very hard to accurately dig the horizontal hole to the child | |||
** If the child's location is measured incorrectly from the ground level, the hole could miss them | |||
Revision as of 00:57, 12 February 2023
Research Section on Topic
Past Accidents
Thai baby who fell down well rescued https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-64553751
- 13m deep shaft and 30cm wide gap
- An adjacent tunnel had to be dug up in order to save the boy
- Oxygen was supplied to the tunnel
Boy rescued after 100 hours trapped underground in a well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cwqsa9VkTQg
- 18m deep well
- An adjacent tunnel had to be dug up in order to save the boy
- Oxygen was supplied to the tunnel
Madhya Pradesh: Indian boy trapped in a well https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-63928144
- 17m deep well
- Trapped for 3 days. Again the solution was to dig a parallel hole
- The rocky layer seemed to pose complications on digging the parallel tunnel
Spain toddler stuck in deep borehole https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46862385
- In this case the hole is 100m deep and just 25cm wide.
- This posed the problem that no one could actually fit through the hole, only a camera to locate the boy
- Again the best solution they used was to dig a parallel hole, which takes very long
Killer borewells: Recent cases of children falling into deadly holes https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/killer-borewells-recent-cases-of-children-falling-into-deadly-holes/articleshow/92232243.cms
- Cases of children falling into borewell holes dating back to 2006 up to 2022
- Rescue operations could take 9 up to 109 hours, and even then they were not always successful
- Children were aged 1.5 up to 9 years old
- Hole depths ranged from 55 to 440 ft (16.764 to 134.112 m)
- Rescue methods included digging a pit parallel to where the child was trapped using large excavators (up to 40 in one instance).
- Saving these children could often require a team consisting of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) team army, fire brigade, police and health officials.
- Geological obstacles included huge rocks or slab which would have to be broken up in order to dig a pit down to where the child was
- Oxygen would be pumped to the holes during rescue missions, but no food could be sent down
Boy, 10, declared dead after falling into 115-feet deep construction site hole in Vietnam https://www.cbsnews.com/news/boy-who-fell-into-115-feet-deep-construction-site-hole-in-vietnam-declared-dead/
- After 100 soldiers spent almost 100 hours a 10 year old boy could not be saved after being trapped for 5 days
- The hole was 10 inches (25.4 cm) wide and 115 ft (35.052 m) deep
- Rescuers attempted to use a 62-foot metal pipe to rescue the boy while oxygen was being pumped into the hole
Problems With Current Rescue Methods
Explained: How borewell rescues are attempted, why they often fail https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-how-borewell-rescues-are-attempted-why-they-often-fail-6094949/#:~:text=Most%20commonly%2C%20a%20parallel%20hole,rescue%20workers%20and%20heavy%20machinery.
- On average, 70% of rescue operations are unsuccessful
- Borewells are wells that can be 100-1500 feet deep and fit pipes of 6-12 inches in diameter in order to extract water to irrigate land
- Key factors that affect the rescue mission's chance of success include:
- Incident type
- Location
- Depth and diameter of borehole
- Availability of equipment for digging, oxygen, doctors, ambulances and lights
- Type of soil
- Problems with digging a parallel hole and diging a horizontal hole to the hole where the child is:
- Needs large amounts of resources (rescue workers, machines)
- Too time-consuming
- Hard rocks can get in the way of the digging and cause delays
Infant Girl Rescued from DANGEROUS Well Shaft in Thailand https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwNHVP34C8U&ab_channel=OnDemandNews
- When digging holes, rescue workers have to be very careful to avoid letting the shaft collapse or letting debris fall in
Rescue 911: Small Boy vs. Deep Hole https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THnTA6Of0qM&ab_channel=brokkenp
- The more people get inovlved and look into the hole where the child is, the more dust gets kicked in accidentally and covers the child
- Water can rise at the bottom and make it harder to dig
- It can be very hard to accurately dig the horizontal hole to the child
- If the child's location is measured incorrectly from the ground level, the hole could miss them