{"id":60179,"date":"2023-11-29T15:52:33","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T06:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2023\/nov\/29\/arnold-dix-australian-tunnelling-expert-india-tunnel-collapse-workers-rescue-41"},"modified":"2023-11-29T15:52:33","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T06:52:33","slug":"australian-expert-over-the-moon-to-have-helped-rescue-41-men-trapped-by-tunnel-collapse-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=60179","title":{"rendered":"Australian expert \u2018over the moon\u2019 to have helped rescue 41 men trapped by tunnel collapse in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arnold Dix describes having to dig \u2018100 millimetres at a time\u2019 to save workers stuck in Silkyara-Barkot tunnel for 17 days<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/live\/2023\/nov\/29\/politics-ir-legislation-thalidomide-question-time-peter-dutton-anthony-albanese-greens-labor-indefinite-detention-telstra-nsw-vic-qld\">Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Get our<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\"> morning and afternoon news emails<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\"> free app<\/a> or<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\"> daily news podcast<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An Australian tunnelling expert has told of his part in the dramatic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/nov\/28\/indian-rescuers-reach-41-men-trapped-in-tunnel\">rescue of 41 Indian workers <\/a>who had been trapped in a collapsed tunnel for 17 days.<\/p>\n<p>Arnold Dix, a Melbourne specialist in underground transportation and infrastructure, is being hailed after his efforts helped save workers stuck inside a blocked tunnel in the Himalayan mountains.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up for Guardian Australia\u2019s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2023\/nov\/29\/arnold-dix-australian-tunnelling-expert-india-tunnel-collapse-workers-rescue-41\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arnold Dix describes having to dig \u2018100 millimetres at a time\u2019 to save workers stuck in Silkyara-Barkot tunnel for 17 daysFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAn &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4047,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1362,62,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia-news","category-engineering","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4047"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60180,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60179\/revisions\/60180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}