 Spinach egg white fed-a-rap my favorite little breakfast thing aside from the oatmeal at Starbucks Yeah, but go-to breakfast thing at Starbucks. I Don't know. I'm like at the breakfast at Starbucks but the I think it's like it's on a croissant with egg bacon and something else I Believe you're mistaking that for my mom. It was a bad joke Hey, welcome back to our stupid director of Corbin. I'm Rick new fuzz on Instagram Twitter for juicy content Thank you dirty sports on patreon folks to account subscribe and like button. What are we doing today, Corbin? I don't know what are we doing today Corbin? I'm taking my multivitamin today. This is a video on How Indian miners escaped the collapsed tunnel? So this is a guy is this the most this is the recent thing that just happened Yes, and so this is a guy actually going over why why they did what they did why they couldn't do other things why it took So he kind of goes in depth And it's at it. So I got sent this a lot Great, he kind of goes over a lot of aspects of it was like this is what they were dealing with great This is why they couldn't just dig them out. This is blah blah blah and all that kind of stuff So he kind of goes in depth into the whole trip Obviously very you know about the tragedy and that they they escaped Yeah, we you may have missed the video, but there's one video that's popped up where we talked about it Right as it had happened when we heard that 41 of them had all all 41 had been saved it That's that is incredible incredible. Here we go It's far so not that far But if you're talking about being stuck somewhere, I can't get out It's gonna be very uncomfortable. I wish there'd been more info Half the video is gonna be in walking the tape dramatic effect. I like it It does That's 30 meters That's as far as our tape measure goes You'd have to double that in order to appreciate just how far Hundreds of rescuers had to go in order to reach a group of 41 miners Trapped in a collapsed tunnel, but they did it. They've drilled through 60 meters of rock concrete and metal Ending a 17-day roller coaster ride What a story those people can tell how they manage that So this is a simplification of the challenge at hand. It's not to scale, but it gives you the basic idea So the miners were trapped inside a mountain the tunnel that they dug to get there Collapsed cutting them off from the outside world The whole thing is meant to be part of a billion dollar expansive highway Network, but since November 12th when part of the tunnel collapsed all of the focus has been on this 60-meter wall of rock and debris So why couldn't they just drill them out? I mean they got there in the first place just do that again Except the second time you go through the entire equation is changing The initial plan to push steel pipes that would be wide enough for the men to call out of the debris Have now failed the rescuers worst fear was that all that digging would trigger a collapse in the part of the tunnel That's keeping these miners alive right, you know They actually managed to drill a very small hole to the miners a mini tunnel just big enough to squeeze through Foo water oxygen medication walkie-talkies that sort of light of course They took through an endoscopic camera that gave us scenes like this That's them in there Wow when you're trying to protect what you're digging towards is risky and the bigger the tunnel the greater the risk of collapse There's no structural integrity there So it's like trying to you know dig through a pile of snow where you just don't know when it's gonna fail or what's right? Great analogy everything has to be calculated and risk versus reward throughout the whole process Some attempts were in fact delayed or called off because of falling debris and because the risk to the trapped miners was considered too high But the other problem was how their drills kept breaking The auger machine which is very very powerful building this tunnel through the avalanche material It's it's finding it really hard and it's teasing us because we're almost like we're only Just meters away, but the machine is running out of it's like a little bit broken So one of the drills rescuers tried to use is us made by American augers You can see this old YouTube video how it works. This is from a different company But the premise is the same you start by drilling a pilot hole about three feet across and the earth You're drilling through gets channeled backwards through the pipe you can weld on additional sections of pipe as you get progressively deeper and Jettison the rock and soil out the same way you came in but the second time you go through You're not just pushing through rock anymore. Remember this was part of a much larger tunnel project for an actual highway So all of the concrete structural supports and twisted metal wow crushed by the collapse Even entire construction vehicles pulverized. Oh, wow. Holy crap. And the things that we Like the big machine up on the hill there's one of them in there There's a big dump on in there. There's all these machines and there's the crushed tunnel So we're trying to find a path through all of this and the rocks and just boring through rock requires specialized equipment It's already tougher than soil clay and silt but throw concrete and metal into the mix The whole process becomes more painstaking more unstable or dangerous What makes this rescue operation so complicated is that they're not only dealing with rubble and debris But they're also dealing with construction material pieces of metal and that's what the drill keeps getting caught on The auger bits and the drilling machines are designed for usually drilling through solid rock So when they're hitting those other materials, it causes damage and it's at no fault of the driller They don't know what they're drilling into right so you have this Possibly delicate balance between needing raw power and a very delicate touch So for the file stretch, they have to dig partially by hand. Yeah Rat hole mining is a very primitive form of mining that you'll find in some parts of india It's essentially mining by hand usually in very cramped spaces tunnels that are only big enough for one person to work I know i'm not only claustrophobic I'm not claustrophobic that would bother me. I'm not either but that would bother me A dozen of these so-called rat miners were brought in and worked on a rotation to push through the final few meters of the rescue My word as you might imagine It's very slow and incredibly dangerous. You could have a collapse on them and their little holes Here in the basement to just give you a little bit of a sense of what the space and size of the tunnel might feel like This is about 90 centimeters across which is almost exactly three feet not very large But the idea is once you've managed to break through that tunnel all the way to the other side And you know, you've laid down your pipe right and I bet you you make you make structural support as you go And the way they do that is by pushing a stretcher on wheels All the way through the tunnel to the other side to the miners A miner would get onto the stretcher and then that stretcher is pulled all the way back That's the basic idea. You do that one at a time 41 times 41 miners and the idea is that it doesn't actually take all that long because the distance is so short Less than an hour to get everybody out This is an incredible rescue after more than two weeks underground all 41 90 seconds per guy tunnel in india How do you go to safety? 41 ambulances were on standby waiting outside for the 41 miners Helicopters also ready to airlift people out in case of emergency and a legion of family friends and rescuers Ready to celebrate what jubilation must have been there Wow 17 days Well done They don't look too worse for wear man How are the victims some have been treated for dysentery others may develop PTSD for being Yeah Then there's the accountability Hopefully they take a step back and then look at the bigger picture so that you know, we're not talking about this story Again in you know six months or nine months Environmentalists and locals have been warning officials repeatedly. They've also been legal cases against this type of construction because The area is very prone to landslides very prone to major flooding and the the soil is not solid The whole world just watched this country literally dig itself out of a mess But why did the tunnel came in? The region is dangerous for digging prone to landslides, but was this unavoidable? Why didn't the tunnel have an emergency exit? India's highway authority is carrying out an audit now of 29 similar tunnels We're building is still currently in progress Because this story had a happy ending But they don't want this to happen again Great video very well informed Yeah, straight to the facts. He did a Spectacular job. Yeah, great job. I loved all the simulations. He gave to us the story, you know the the whiteboard. What an awful awful thing that happened with a Incredibly happy ending. Yeah, the fact none of them died unbelievable It's that's that's the most incredible thing is that none of them died of either from the collapse. Yeah, or starvation Well, just the awful um Because obviously there's piss and shit down there. Absolutely. Yeah days of it. That's why the dysentery aspect is a part of it It's an infection. It's amazing. They didn't run out of oxygen. Yeah, um, so It's amazing. None of them were at the part that collapsed Yeah, and the other thing it didn't it's not just their lives that are saved but Everyone who was involved in this rescue Will now remember what they what did work and what didn't work so that if they ever got forbidden have to do a rescue comparable to this You get people from that team who can tell you this work. This didn't work Obviously it changes from terrain to random location location, but I did know the fact that didn't make sense Like you think you can just drill them out But the fact that they had their steel beam supports in there. There's cars drinking vehicles. There was equipment in there and obviously You use different drills for different terrain or different stuff that you're cutting through But none of them are meant to cut through Like metal. No, and I wonder what it was that caused them to um It must not be that important my my thought looking at what they said was Did they have the option and it must have been just way too high of a mountain to actually go down to them He said it wasn't scaled but when he drew the thing on the whiteboard My literal mind went well, why don't you just go in? I don't think they had that option. I think I think where they were what they were in It was okay. We're gonna we're gonna go, you know, 60 meters in this way versus 600 meters this way to try to get to him from the top. There's probably a Much smarter answer than that though in terms of clearly they went the best route Yeah, if like that was an option. Yeah, they would have and like one You can't tell the miners where you are right and guessing Either there's probably a risk of collapse further. Sure much worse. Much worse Yeah, he just didn't cover it and I guess it was just because well, yeah rick that wasn't even an option Yeah, but what an amazing amazing story either of us are engineers No, I just I not at all Never my my brother though. He is Not I don't think this but I have seen over You know my life enough stories of people getting Stuck whether it's miners. It's happened happens here too where miners have gotten stuck in a tunnel Um Kids getting stuck in tunnels because they went climbing down into it and they shouldn't have gone in there So heard similar kinds of rescue stories and the the the things they have to deal with but I'm so glad. What a what a miracle. I'm so glad we got a happy ending Yeah, and thank you for whoever recommended this because that was a really great informative video. Absolutely Uh anything else we need to know about it. Please let us know down below