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

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.