What a huge sigh of relief when all the trapped workers were rescued after some seventeen suspenseful days! Luckily for them, where they were trapped, oxygen, it seems, was not an issue. Anyways, they were provided fruits, water and oxygen via a pipe running through the tunnel. Endoscopic cameras were used to capture their images.
Multiple technologies, including rat hole tunnelling, were used to finally get them this new lease of life. That is the theme of our blog today. What all new ways are emerging to conceptualise such unfortunate rescue operations as well as transport modes!
Just like anybody travelling that route would never forget this rescue mission, would anybody to able to forget his/her journey in the Chunnel tube? Do not you know it? Well, the Chunnel is the under the seabed tunnel that connects France and England.
A similar tunnel under the seabed exists in Japan, too. Personally, I find the Pamban bridge and the Bandra-Worli sea link route, why, even the Pune-Mumbai Express way, to be the images of the new wonders of the world. What all analytical planning gets involved in imagining and realising such marvels!
I read up a few articles on the very many technologies involved in such constructions. The current ones, it seems, can drill in under the sea bed already made metro/tube tracks! Sure, it is tampering with Nature in a way. Yet it is also a tribute to human imagination, brilliant intellect and truly 'out of the box' creativity.
What makes such constructions the new wonders of the world is the humanity displayed by these trapped workers. They had decided amongst themselves, it seems, that the young ones would be first rescued! Reminded me of the very many stories during the Covid era when older patients willingly offered their beds and oxygen cylinders to the younger! Such humane considerations are the real wonders of the world!
Pratima@ Technology is the real magic tool today.
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