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Under Gill's supervision, the rescue team began drilling a vertical borehole. The tension at the site was palpable. Families of the trapped miners gathered at the pithead, their eyes fixed on the drilling rig.

Shekhawat’s breakthrough was a leap of lateral thinking. Instead of widening the borehole (which risked collapse), he decided to use it as a conduit for a custom-made rescue capsule. The capsule would be a steel cylinder, just under 6 inches in diameter, with a hinged lid, a small oxygen cylinder, and a rope harness. A miner would have to strip naked, coat himself in grease, and squeeze into the tube headfirst, arms pinned to his sides, breathing through a small snorkel-like tube. The capsule would then be winched up through the borewell—a journey of 110 feet through jagged rock, groundwater seepage, and the constant threat of snagging. raniganj coal mine rescue full

When standard water-pumping methods proved too slow—estimated to take up to 90 days—engineer Jaswant Singh Gill proposed a daring borehole-rescue method. LARGEST COAL MINE RESCUE OPERATION Under Gill's supervision, the rescue team began drilling