Talk:BEP Shaft Rescue Robot (2022/2023, Q3)

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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