Contemplating the rescue 0f Julen. Spain

totalán - 13 - a :
As soon as the miners break through the well's wall they need to inject a hose that is blowing fresh air. This to make sure Julen is supplied with fresh air while the miners try to locate him.
totalán - 13 - b :
As soon as the wall of the well is breached oxygen-rich-air should be blown in, so Julen can immediately breath it in. Careful that it is not too oxygen rich: explosion and fire hazard.
totalán - 13 - c :
The miners should be supplied with a small stretcher on which they can lay Julen down while carefully taking him in the lift to the surface, to the medical staff.
totalán - 13 - d :
The section of the well Julen is in will have a high concentration of carbon-monoxide.
totalán - 13 - e :
Getting the shaft filled with oxygen-rich air is most likely the highest priority when breaching the wall of the well for the first time: No fresh air, no life.
totalán - 13 - f :
Fighting his hunger, it can be that Julen has consumed dirt and small rocks.
totalán - 13 - g :
A heater should be installed in the four-meter horizontal shaft the miners are making. Julen can then be taken in this preheated shaft while the miners prepare him for transport to the surface.
totalán - 13 - h :
While the four-meter horizontal shaft is being made, the top of the cork should be monitored for not starting to fall down.
totalán - 13 - i :
Julen can best be transported to the surface in a horizontal position, face up.
totalán - 13 - j :
One or two Snap lights (glow sticks) should be carefully dropped in the well when the miners do not see Julen after they breached the well's wall.
totalán - 13 - k :
A Maglite might turn out to be too bright for Julen's eyes to handle but it is always good for the miners to have one with them.
totalán - 13 - l :
Baby food is the best food to give Julen: a lot of moist and easy to swallow.
totalán - 13 - m :
The miners should bring with them a small mirror to look around bends in the well.
totalán - 13 - n :
Julen has been gone through a lot. Mentally he will be exhausted, maybe he will not recognize his mother instantly: all the hugging might bring more stress to Julen. Careful.
totalán - 13 - o :
When the miners cannot see Julen in the well they should create an artificial cork to prevent Julen from sliding deeper in case he suddenly comes sliding down. Also, this artificial cork needs to prevent rocks and dirt from falling deeper in the well.
totalán - 13 - p :
In case the miners do not see Julen they have to use a camera to look further down in the well. The camera equipment for that job can already be prepared.

totalán - 12 - a :
The setback caused by granite layers is as if cerro de la Corona is not willing to give up Julen, or, it is sheltering him from harm by directing the rescuers towards the right path to get Julen safely out.
totalán - 12 - b :
Nature and machinery, they are two different worlds, however, both demand respect when seeking cooperation.
totalán - 12 - c :
All operators know that when machinery is treated with respect, over time a soul will descent in it. The same goes for the drilling machine of Cimentalia.
totalán - 12 - d :
Every logger knows that sometimes a log will only give way when hitting it respectfully with an axe.
totalán - 12 - e :
It is not said that there is no respect amongst the rescuers, It's not like that. It is just not to be forgotten that besides Julen, there is the cerro de la Corona to think of.
totalán - 12 - f :
Cerro de la Corona is not a two-year-old. It is hard to believe that such a hill would enjoy taking in a two-year-old. There is no need for a new Dolmen del cerro de la Corona.
totalán - 12 - g :
Cerro de la Corona was picked as the location for a dolmen because of its spirituality. Back in those days people had understanding about such things. Cerro de la Corona is a sacred place.
totalán - 12 - h :
The key of rescuing Julen as quick as possible depends on executing every step precisely right. Every error and cutting corners in the rescue so far have caused delay.
totalán - 12 - i :
This rescue demands delicacy and accuracy to succeed. All the rescue efforts and setbacks gradually start to outline of the path through which Julen can be rescued.
totalán - 12 - j :
A skilled didgeridoo player can produce sounds that are both granite-weakening and respectful towards cerro de la Corona at the same time.
totalán - 12 - k :
Objects have a frequency at which they will resonate, so does granite.
totalán - 12 - l :
Holes, drilled by the miners, can be filled with explosives but also with sound that is causing rock to resonate.
totalán - 12 - m :
No hill likes to see its granite foundation being weakened, no sequoia likes to see its trunk being chopped in too. Neither cerro de la Corona nor Julen are happy with the current situation.
totalán - 12 - n :
Cerro de la Corona does not allow evil to exist on its slopes. Having a two-year-old playing on its slopes was a happy event.
totalán - 12 - o :
Seeing how much effort it needs for the drill of Cimentalia to reach sixty meters deep, it must have taken some time for the lighter drill (that drilled the well Julen has fallen into) to reach more than a hundred meters.
totalán - 12 - p :
As Francisco Barranquero explained, the drill used for well-digging is redirected by hard objects in its way, this means that Julen is not surrounded by granite, at least not within a radius of probably fifty centimeters.
totalán - 12 - q :
Seeing the drill of Cimentalia struggling with granite layers just a few meters away from the well means that had the lighter drill (used for drilling the well) been drilling on that same location it would have hit the same granite layer, making Julen only being stuck at perhaps forty meters.
totalán - 12 - r :
There is a chance that clearing the ground around the well and the drilling is resulting in a lot of sounds for Julen.

totalán - 11 - a :
When the miners find Julen, but cannot reach him yet, they should carefully drop a few non-bright LED lights to surround Julen with light.
totalán - 11 - b :
Julen's eyes cannot handle bright light yet since he has been in a pitch-black environment for more than a week by now.
totalán - 11 - c :
The miners should have with them small pieces of bread that can easily be consumed by Julen when dipped in some warm water.
totalán - 11 - d :
Julen sitting on top of the cork would be "natural". Julen being below the cork is a strange outcome. It looks like the diameter of the well near the cork is bigger.

totalán - 10 - a :
Julen should not be stuck in a hundred-meter-deep narrow well, i.e., Totalán is not Hell nor some remote prison camp.
totalán - 10 - b :
The place where Julen is stuck are those places where they threw "witches" in medieval times.
totalán - 10 - c :
Even in medieval times, throwing people in narrow shafts belonged to the most gruesome acts of that time and even back then it was a feared experience.
totalán - 10 - d :
On this Sunday morning Julen should have been riding his tricycle in front of his home, and yet, on this morning, he is stuck deep in a hill.
totalán - 10 - e :
A two-year-old going from one morning riding his tricycle in front of his home to the next morning being stuck deep inside a hill.
totalán - 10 - f :
It serves no purpose for Julen to have undergone the horrific descent in the well, nor him being gruesomely stuck there for so many days. It is an unnatural place to be for a two-year-old.

totalán - 9 - a :
When the miners find Julen they need to use a quality scissor to cut away Julen's cold and wet clothes and wrap Julen in an insulation blanket together with multiple hot water bottles. The hot water bottles should be placed near his feet, his waist, his spine, his neck, the top of his head, his hands, and his chest.
totalán - 9 - b :
The miners should bring with them a Bluetooth speaker from which they will play a recording of Julen's mother is calling him. Play the recording also when they see Julen but cannot reach him yet.
totalán - 9 - c :
Only God can spilt a hill in two. God, and, explosive experts who can demolish apartment buildings in densely populated areas.
totalán - 9 - d :
The only resemblance of the deep well where Julen is stuck are those seventy to eighty-meter-high old industrial brick chimneys.
totalán - 9 - e :
It may very well turn out that Julen's survival was made possible by the same fact that makes the well so gruesome: it's narrow diameter. The narrow diameter is the only aspect of the well that can prevent a fast descent of Julen.
totalán - 9 - f :
A long descent in a narrow shaft will make every person lose their control over arms and legs at some point during the descent.
totalán - 9 - g :
It is almost as if the well has a perfect fit: big enough to take in a two-year-old and small enough to prevent its body, arms or legs to move in a position that would make the two-year-old's body get stuck.
totalán - 9 - h :
The drill, used to drill the well, drills wells with pretty much a consistent diameter. The only variation being the drill not going straight down, especially when it encounters a rock for example.
totalán - 9 - i :
Julen can only be stuck on the end of the well, where the drill head hasn't widened the well to its full diameter yet, or, Julen is stuck in a cavity created by the drill when it was guided off course when encountering a rock.
totalán - 9 - j :
Only in a cavity can it be that Julen's body, arms and legs found the possibility to get in a position to stop the descent.
totalán - 9 - k :
When Julen's descent stopped in a cavity then that is most likely because Julen's shoes caused friction that made that his feet and legs got into a position that stopped his descent.
totalán - 9 - l :
If Julen's descent stopped because of the well's narrowing diameter than he is either stuck near his waist or near his shoulders.

totalán - 8 - a :
Francisco Barranquero should drill holes around the well for the purpose of creating ground stability.
totalán - 8 - b :
Ground stability will improve when the tunnel size is reduced to the size needed to get one miner through.
totalán - 8 - c :
Strategically placed holes can provide a structure to the hill where the well is situated. Strategically placed holes allow the hill to find stability.
totalán - 8 - d :
The type of tunnel which will be used for the miners to get to Julen will define the kind of holes that need to be drilled to give the hill ground stability.
totalán - 8 - e :
Francisco Barranquero knows the grounds in the area of the well, he should be involved in the rescue/drilling.

totalán - 7 - a :
Use the instability of the ground to create the tunnel that is needed to get to Julen.
totalán - 7 - b :
Reuse the horizontal tunnel that was affected by instability. By now that area should be stable.
totalán - 7 - c :
Each time you make changes to a stable environment it needs to find a new balance.
totalán - 7 - d :
Everywhere you dig around the well the ground needs to find new balance: no problem, that is healthy ground behavior.
totalán - 7 - e :
A police dog should be deployed to see if the dog can detect the scent of Julen in the dirt that has been extracted from the well so far.
totalán - 7 - f :
A police dog that can detect the scent of a corps should be used to check the dirt extracted from the well.
totalán - 7 - g :
The Madeleine McCann case in 2007 also so the deployment of a dog highly skilled for detecting the scent of blood and (sadly) corpses.
totalán - 7 - h :
Dogs can detect the presence of blood and people much better than people and technology can: let a police dog sniff the cork in the well.
totalán - 7 - i :
See if a police dog can detect Julen in or beyond the cork by lowering it on the surface of the cork.

totalán - 6 - a :
It is a bit weird that the cork in the well, with all its weight, just sits there while Julen, with its two-year-old light-weight, went through it.
totalán - 6 - b :
If Julen can go through the cork then for sure it can be concluded that the cork is also fluid enough to be moving down by its own weight, and yet, it does not do that it just sits there.
totalán - 6 - c :
The only reason for the cork to be there and Julen going through it is that the cork is resting on the bottom of the well.
totalán - 6 - d :
Perhaps the cork is made with the material that was dug out around the well, since it seemed that prior to Julen's fall someone had done some digging around the well.
totalán - 6 - e :
If Julen's candy was found on top of the cork, but Julen is thought to have gone through, is somewhat surprising since it is likely Julen's candy must have reached the top of the cork earlier than Julen: when Julen went through his candy also must have gone through with him.

totalán - 5 - a :
Head down first makes a smoother body: Julen's arms and legs cannot assist in preventing Julen from descending down the well.
totalán - 5 - b :
Since only candy was found, it is safe to say that Julen had his shoes on during the descent, which means his feet where protected during the fall.
totalán - 5 - c :
A hammer which falls in the well (Francisco Barranquero) will get stuck because it has a rigid structure, however, a two-year-old's body is flexible which results in its body not getting stuck.
totalán - 5 - d :
Young children, as do adults, find holes in the ground much more interesting to play with than a tree or a bush.
totalán - 5 - e :
Julen's parents saw Julen fall into the well which means that the diameter of the well is sufficient enough to take Julen's body size in.
totalán - 5 - f :
The hair found in the well is Julen's. For Julen's hair to come loose could indicate a nasty fall. The mineworkers that will go in have to bring with them medical aid for a head injury.
totalán - 5 - g :
The size of hair found may indicate the type of head injury Julen now has.
totalán - 5 - h :
All preparations for Julen's medical aid can already be made at this moment: nutrients immediately to be given when he is found, warm water for cleaning and drinking, blankets to keep him warm, helicopter transport to the hospital, a hospital bed, a team of medical staff and doctors.
totalán - 5 - i :
Julen's body has been stuck stationary in a dramatic body position (legs, arms and back) for some days now. Already it can be discussed with the miners how Julen is to be picked up from the well when they find him.
totalán - 5 - j :
If it is better to create a temporary first aid facility near the well than it is possible to make that happen this instant.
totalán - 5 - k :
It can be that the miners will see Julen but are not yet able to reach his position by hand. In that case keeping Julen warm can be done by lowering one or more hot water bottles.
totalán - 5 - l :
It must be prevented that Julen will slight down further once the miners see him. Trying to get a rake past Julen may help preventing Julen from slipping down further when the miners try to grab him.
totalán - 5 - m :
Lowering an inflatable device past Julen and inflating it when this device is below him may prevent Julen from slipping down further in the well.
totalán - 5 - o :
The miners who will try to reach Julen should be equipped with steroids that will restart Julen's body.

totalán - 4 - a :
Of course, you need to draw a schematic drawing (cross section) which covers the hole's entire length and shape to understand where Julen might possibly be stuck.
totalán - 4 - b :
A toy remote operated Caterpillar excavator need to be lowered vertically in the hole to loosen the dirt that has fallen on Julen.
totalán - 4 - c :
Julen's fall must have left scratch marks, possibly blood marks. Falling ten to twenty meters is a long way down, let alone seventy till ninety meters.
totalán - 4 - d :
Francisco Barranquero explained he could retrieve hammers that accidently had fallen into wells like the one Julen has fallen into.
totalán - 4 - e :
When a hammer gets stuck in such a well it does not move anymore, when a young child gets stuck it will try to move causing it to slip down even further down the well.
totalán - 4 - f :
Julen's fall must have left pieces of ripped clothing behind.
totalán - 4 - g :
A child that falls makes itself instinctively small, and so, Julen's body size would have been less making it perhaps possible to fall deeper into the well.
totalán - 4 - h :
Francisco Barranquero. Always great to hear an expert's opinion.
totalán - 4 - i :
Young children like Julen will never throw their precious candy in a well, but they will try to save it instinctively when it slips from their hands.
totalán - 4 - j :
Had someone kidnapped Julen, that person would never have thrown Julen's candy in the well but would have taken it with him to keep the child as quiet as possible instead.

totalán - 3 - a :
The hole was drilled for a purpose. Use the gear that was used to create the hole to lower a camera.
totalán - 3 - b :
The person who drilled the hole knows what the layout of that hole is.
totalán - 3 - c :
Local youth always hangs around such holes. Ask them the history of this hole: what has been thrown in, etcetera.
totalán - 3 - d :
Local youth know all there is to know about such holes.
totalán - 3 - e :
It cannot be that such holes are unfamiliar in the Totalan area. Someone there must have some experience of lowering items in it and retrieving it after having reached the bottom.

totalán - 2 - a :
Dig a parallel hole through which an adult with a drill can be lowered.
totalán - 2 - b :
Do not wait for a single solution to pop up: start executing possible solutions in parallel, no matter how futile it may seem.
totalán - 2 - c :
A sewage specialist has the gear to get down deep and around bends.
totalán - 2 - d :
A surgeon in Los Angeles can put on a glove and operate a patient in New York.
totalán - 2 - e :
An experienced miner knows how to get down in such holes. Experienced miners feel the connection with the ground they dig into.
totalán - 2 - f :
Experienced sailors feel the ocean, Experienced miners feel the ground.
totalán - 2 - g :
Gently pore a yellow liquid in the hole and see if it makes it to the open water.

totalán - 1 - a :
Lower down a trained (circus) monkey with a rope and a camera.
totalán - 1 - b :
Contact an oil rigging company and check if they can lower a pipe in the hole with a camera attached to it.
totalán - 1 - c :
A Border Collie sheepdog might fit through the hole, head down and safely secured.
totalán - 1 - d :
Lower a radio-controlled car in the hole, one that has caterpillar tires, to pull the camera around bends. (Not an actual radio-controlled car, but one that is wire controlled).
totalán - 1 - e :
Strap a camera on a bunny's back and lower it in the hole, leave the bunny's legs free for it to crawl around bends. Give the bunny something to remain calm but active.
totalán - 1 - f :
A guinea pig has a natural calmness. Lower one in the hole with a camera and light on its back. Leave its feet clear so it can crawl around bends.
totalán - 1 - g :
Involve an engineering company, there are always a couple of bright minds working there.
totalán - 1 - h :
Involve a mining company about what they can lower in the hole and what they can pull out from the hole.
totalán - 1 - i :
A trained octopus, if there is one, easily has the power to grab the child and let itself be pulled out of the hole.
totalán - 1 - j :
What is needed is an ROV, with grip fingers, that fits to descent into the hole. Use the grip fingers to make it pull itself around bends, and eventually grab the child by his arms.
totalán - 1 - k :
An orange sized slightly heavy ball with a hole in the middle through which a cord goes, the ball now hangs on the end of that cord. Fifty cm above that a camera. Gravity will pull the ball around bends.
totalán - 1 - l :
A big game fishing rod with a reel, used for tuna phishing, can easily lift a two-year-old from a deep hole.
totalán - 1 - m :
A fisherman with a fishing rod in his hands has the skill and the feeling to lower a camera in the hole, also to make it go around bends.
totalán - 1 - n :
A small wheel on an axle can easily be lowered into the hole by an experienced fisherman, as if the fisherman is steering a lurer. Fifty centimeters above the wheel needs to be a camera.
totalán - 1 - o :
An American football has the sturdiness, resilience and the shape to be lowered in such holes while being bumped around during the descent.
totalán - 1 - p :
A decent sized turtle has the strength and built to be lowered in the hole with a camera on its back and gently crawl down further.
totalán - 1 - q :
A decent sized trained boa constrictor would certainly have been able to reach the young child, encircle it, and let itself be hoisted out by the rescue workers.
totalán - 1 - r :
Lower the young child's drinking bottle down the hole, hopefully he will recognize it and grab it.
totalán - 1 - s :
Lower the young child's cuddle in the hole: to support the child's comfort and mental strength.
totalán - 1 - t :
Lower a microphone in the hole for it to pick up sound the child is making.
totalán - 1 - u :
Use echo location to try to read the depth at which the child might possibly be.
totalán - 1 - v :
Mining companies have "X-ray" vision to locate diamonds. Locating a two-year-old child in a deep hole should not be a problem.

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Contemplating the rescue of Julen

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