‘When science and technology meet faith’: Tunneling expert Dix offers prayers at makeshift temple
Arnold Dix is a Geneva-based Australian geologist and was involved in the Uttarakhand tunnel rescue operation.
Arnold Dix is a Geneva-based Australian geologist and was involved in the Uttarakhand tunnel rescue operation.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi also saluted the efforts of rescue teams.
The evacuation of the trapped workers is likely to be completed today.
As of today, 31 meters of vertical drilling has been completed.
Some 47 meters of the roughly 60 meters of drilling has already been covered by the machine and the remaining work will now be done manually.
Drilling tool of the American auger machine broke inside the pipe being pushed through rubble to extract the trapped workers.
