In this “From the Green Jackets” column, David Haupt, MGWC, recounts stories related to large-diameter open wells.
This morning's news reports that Baby Jessica was married last Saturday. Baby Jessica McClure of Midland, Texas, fell into an 8-inch diameter well on October 14, 1987. The 18-month-old daughter of Reba and Chip McClure, 17 and 18 years of age, respectively, got hung up at a dogleg just beyond 20 feet. If the well had been straight, the 20-pound little lady would have gone beyond, perhaps to the bottom of the 90- to 120-foot well. She was rescued 58 1⁄2 hours later after drillers ran a parallel hole alongside and tunneled back up under Jessica.