New Delhi: Drilling on the collapsed Uttarkashi tunnel to rescue 41 trapped employees needed to be halted once more on Friday after the Auger Machine confronted a technical glitch, information company PTI reported.
Earlier on Thursday, the drilling course of needed to be suspended after the machine hit a hurdle, apparently a steel object.
In line with officers, the drilling course of needed to be placed on maintain on Thursday, a day after the rescue operation was halted attributable to technical snag. Nonetheless, the rescue course of was resumed earlier on Friday after fixing the issue. However after a short whereas, the machine needed to be stopped once more.
The rescue employees mentioned the drill bit needed to be pulled out by the passage already bored by the machine, PTI reported.
In line with information company ANI, GPR survey staff was referred to as on Friday.
“We have been referred to as as a result of one thing obtained caught within the auger machine. GPR helps us know the way far the metallic object is…GPR principally scans, due to this fact two persons are wanted one to run the GPR and the opposite to amass the information,” geophysicist B Chendhoor instructed the information company.
#WATCH | Uttarkashi (Uttarakhand) tunnel rescue | Geophysicist, GPR survey staff member B Chendhoor says, “We have been referred to as as a result of one thing obtained caught within the auger machine. GPR helps us know the way far the metallic object is…GPR principally scans, due to this fact two persons are wanted one… pic.twitter.com/32HDnQceXa
— ANI (@ANI) November 24, 2023
In the meantime, talking in regards to the drone expertise getting used within the rescue course of, CEO of Squadrone Infra Mining Pvt Ltd, Cyriac Joseph mentioned this expertise is utilized in areas the place GPS doesn’t work, ANI reported.
“It is a new expertise. It goes into GPS-denied areas and is utilized in underground tunnels and unground mines. It has been launched in India not too long ago. Our goal is to find out how we are able to rescue the 41 trapped employees and the way shortly we are able to do it. The protection of the rescue staff can be vital,” ANI quoted Joseph as saying.