RIYADH –
To help save those who fall into wells, especially those that are known for their extreme narrowness and depth, the Saudi authorities revealed that a Saudi inventor managed to invent a device to rescue those stuck in artesian wells.
The Directorate of Civil Defense in Saudi Arabia said that the Saudi inventor, Abdulaziz Al-Jalkhaf, who is an employee of the Civil Defense Directorate in the Asir region, devised a device to help save those who fall into artesian wells.
She added that the device was tested in the presence of the working team formed to see its mechanism of action and to verify its effectiveness, as well as the safety of its use in rescuing those trapped in this type of wells.
The directorate indicated that the device "is still under testing and approval, and it has not yet been approved until the end of its testing and ensuring the effectiveness and safety of its use in such accidents."
The Saudi newspaper Al-Watan said that the device urgently needs support and dissemination, especially after the incident of the Moroccan child Rayan, which shook the whole world.
For his part, the inventor, "Galkhaf", indicated in his intervention with one of the Saudi channels, that the device that he reached is able to recover the stuck in a well 30 meters deep in 9 minutes, adding that preparing the vehicle for the device takes 13 minutes, while the efforts of Rescue only 9 minutes.
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He pulled a doll from a 30-meter-deep well in 9 minutes.. Innovator Abdel Aziz Jalkhaf tells #Al-Rassed the details of his creation pic.twitter.com/2EhdRAXQRn
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The Saudi inventor explained that the device was tested on a doll in a well 30 meters deep, and the doll weighed 30 kilograms, indicating the presence of other factors that affect the rescue situation, such as the condition and location of the well.
Al-Jalhaf pointed out that each well has its own nature that determines the duration of the rescue, but the innovative device is the ideal solution for rescue in a few minutes compared to the normal rescue period, which may exceed hours or days.
Artesian wells are created by drilling layers of the earth, and this relieves the existing pressure, and allows the water in the ground to reach the air.
Last week, the Saudi authorities announced the filling and fortification of 2450 abandoned wells, in light of a campaign launched by Saudi tweeters after the tragedy of the Moroccan child Rayan, who was taken out dead from the well in which he was stuck for 5 days.
The filling of these wells was part of the first phase of the Ministry of Environment’s project to fill in abandoned wells throughout the Kingdom “to ensure the safety of road pedestrians and hikers, and to reduce the pollution of aquifers.”
The Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture in Saudi Arabia said that it is continuing to work to fill in the rest of the exposed wells, calling for their reporting.