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Post by gigi on Feb 5, 2022 17:29:50 GMT 1
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Post by FFS on Feb 5, 2022 17:38:03 GMT 1
Heard on the news at lunchtime that they have struck rock only a couple of metres away from him, so the going is more difficult.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2022 17:44:05 GMT 1
I was watching the excavators a couple of days ago not an easy job. Lets hope for a good ending.
He must have been very small to have fallen down a 25cm wide well.
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Post by JohnnyD on Feb 5, 2022 17:53:57 GMT 1
Saw it on the news yesterday, I believe he is 5 years old, lets hope for a good outcome......
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Post by exile on Feb 5, 2022 18:05:19 GMT 1
I was watching the excavators a couple of days ago not an easy job. Lets hope for a good ending. He must have been very small to have fallen down a 25cm wide well. Going down a 25cm diameter hole is easier than you think. Getting back out is another thing. It is perversely the small size that has probably saved him because any bigger and he would have fallen without resistance and at 30m+ that would have been the end. It is just possible that having hit rock could be a blessing because my fear was that as they broke through, the soft earth of the shaft could have collapsed and buried the poor boy. |
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Post by FFS on Feb 5, 2022 18:45:47 GMT 1
They have a concrete pipe to put in horizontally at the bottom of the trench they've dug, presumably to cover the possibility that the earth will collapse from above.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2022 18:56:40 GMT 1
They have a concrete pipe to put in horizontally at the bottom of the trench they've dug, presumably to cover the possibility that the earth will collapse from above. The risk with old wells is they can just collapse a standard qtone well in France is about a meter wide and normally built of stone with no cement just stone on top of stone, no idea how they built a 23cm wide well. |
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Post by exile on Feb 5, 2022 20:25:17 GMT 1
They have a concrete pipe to put in horizontally at the bottom of the trench they've dug, presumably to cover the possibility that the earth will collapse from above. Only in part. The pipe will go in as far as they have dug. Everything above is prone to collapse and collapse as a cone - so 1 cm in advance of the pipe might equate to a collapse of 50cm or more at the surface. |
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Post by manonthemoon2 on Feb 5, 2022 21:56:47 GMT 1
It seems a dangerous and difficult task, here's hoping for a safe recovery for Rayan and rescuers. Poor lad I feel so sad for him
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Post by Stinky on Feb 5, 2022 22:21:34 GMT 1
I pray the breaking news is incorrect, but it would seem that the little lad did not survive. Reuters.
Such sadness.
I have tears.
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Post by gigi on Feb 5, 2022 22:51:11 GMT 1
I fear that’s so - heartbreaking news.
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Post by exile on Feb 5, 2022 22:53:44 GMT 1
So sad
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Post by manonthemoon2 on Feb 5, 2022 23:43:11 GMT 1
So sad
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Post by cleoj on Feb 6, 2022 0:33:56 GMT 1
Poor soul
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Post by Veem on Feb 6, 2022 9:27:17 GMT 1
How terrible his father must feel, having been there when the poor little boy fell. Such sad news.
Edit to add that I just heard the latest report on the news, and the only consolation is that his body was retrieved.
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