Cave boys and baby Ryan… Epic rescues that touched the world and were successful

Over the course of 3 full days, civil protection personnel in Morocco continue their tireless efforts around the clock to rescue the child Rayan, who is stuck at a depth of 32 meters in an old and very narrow well in the northern province of Chefchaouen.
On Tuesday evening, 5-year-old Ryan fell into the head of an uncovered and unfenced well, near the family home. Some reports said that the accident happened while his father was doing some maintenance work related to the well.
Rescue efforts began on Wednesday morning, and a tracking and coordination committee was set up to oversee the operation, and the rescue operation that is now the talk of the world reached critical moments in the past few hours.
Ryan: The talk of the world
In the latest information on the fate of the child who has been stuck since Tuesday in the absence of the well, the correspondent of “Sputnik” said that the excavation and rescue efforts on its third day – about to start its fourth – are still continuing.
Rescuers have already finished executing a semi-vertical hole parallel to the well, and have been working for hours on digging a horizontal tunnel to reach the same point as the child, but it is a very complicated, tedious and risky process.
In the last stage, drilling operations are carried out manually or using very light machines to ensure that the soil does not crack, the walls of the hole collapse, and the efforts of days are lost.
According to reports from Morocco and eyewitnesses, the child Rayan is still alive, after the rescue efforts succeeded in providing him with oxygen, water and some food, as well as a camera to check on his condition and communicate with him.
Earlier, rescue officials said that the process of digging the tunnel would extend 8 meters between the well and the modern hole, and that it would be digging with heavy-duty metal tubes. The head of the Moroccan rescue teams said, “Work is underway to install 3 metal pipes to extend a horizontal tunnel to reach the child Rayan.”
The operation to retrieve the child Ryan is being carried out with the help of a large number of heavy equipment and a large group of emergency personnel and even geologists, in addition to a large crowd on the outskirts of the work area, and in the midst of direct media coverage on a large scale.
Cave boys
The incident of the Moroccan child brought to mind the case of the “cave boys” who were stuck inside a cave in Thailand for two weeks, and the rescue process took 3 days and required exceptional efforts in which divers and foreign parties participated, and attracted global attention and sympathy.
The story goes back to the summer of 2018 in Thailand, when a soccer team – 12 teenagers – and their coach went out on a cave exploration trip, and were stuck for two weeks inside the “Tam Luang” cave, which extends for seven kilometers after it was submerged by flood waters.

The rescue operation was also arduous and arduous, as the divers had to pass through a very narrow port and muddy areas, but in the end they found the boys and their coach alive on a high rock and they were in poor health.
More than 1,000 people participated in the rescue effort, including volunteers and the Thai Navy, with help from several countries. One of the rescuers died during the operation.
miners
In a similarly detailed but more terrifying incident in 2010, rescuers managed to get trapped miners out in Chile through a narrow road, in a meticulously planned rescue operation that ended a two-month ordeal deep underground.
One by one, miners climbed onto a specially designed steel capsule – barely wider than a man’s shoulders – and made a 15-minute journey across 2,050 feet (625 metres) of rock to the surface.
The disaster of the San Jose gold and copper mine in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile involved 33 men who were stuck in the earth after the collapse of the building for 69 days, and the moment they were released and taken to the hospitals was like a military victory.
Church bells rang in Chile when the first miner was taken out, and Chileans lined up in front of televisions all night, proud of their nation’s ability to save men.
Large video screens have been set up in public spaces across Chile to allow people to watch and be encouraged, while all stranded workers are taken to the surface.
The miners spent 69 days in the hot and humid belly of the collapsed mine, and they were all believed to have died within the first 17 days. But the story of their survival caught the world’s attention.
About 1,500 journalists attended the mine to follow the rescue, which was broadcast live around the world, including dramatic live images of miners embracing rescuers who moved inside the collapsing mine to reach their shelter in the depths.
Rescuers miraculously found the men alive with only a pit the size of a grapefruit, which served as a lifeline to pass gels, water and food, as well as bibles, letters from their families and football videos to keep their spirits up.