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Morlock
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#41

Number 10 is on the way up as I post. 🙂

Manicminer
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#42

Bet the last one will feel lonely waiting for the cage carrying the miner before him to go up and back down again

Gold is where you find it

AndyC
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14 years ago

#43

Being pedantic - I understand a rescue team travelled down before any miners were sent up - so the last 'trapped' miner will still have company.

Been injured while at work and are not to blame?

Get over it.

Tezarchaeon
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14 years ago

#44

13th up now.

I've been very impressed by the behaviour of Sebastián Piñera the President of Chile. His personal greetings for many of the miners seemed very humble and they haven't seemed forced or remotely false in terms of emotion. I really doubt that the likes of our Prime Minister would even bother to turn up to a mine rescue, let alone greet, hug and talk to each of the miners upon their return. The fact that he is still at the mine is even more impressive.

derrickman
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14 years ago

#45

you think Cameron would miss a photo opportunity like that?

''the stopes soared beyond the range of our caplamps' - David Bick...... How times change .... oh, I don't know, I've still got a lamp like that.

Tezarchaeon
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14 years ago

#46

At the most I would expect to see him give a timid handshake followed by a wipe down with a handkerchief.

Ty Gwyn
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14 years ago

#47

Would have been more impressive if he had tightened up the Mine Safety rules,then this Rescue might not have been needed.

Can imagine what these Miner`s are thinking seeing the President there.

Brakeman
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14 years ago

#48

There is a good set of photos of the rescue operation top side over on flickr;

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rescatemineros/with/5075436527/

Actually some very moving photos amongst them.

The management thanks you for your co operation.

Spark
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14 years ago

#49

As of a few minutes ago it is 19 down (or should that be up ;))

Brakeman
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14 years ago

#50

Miner number 24 out just now,

there is a good live video feed on MSN

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/39632101#39632101

The management thanks you for your co operation.

BertyBasset
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14 years ago

#51

However it now ends, regardless of the original failings of the mine company, this is a superb achievement for the rescuers. The planning and execution so far has been superb.

Robin

Brakeman
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14 years ago

#52

Interesting just watching a bit more of the live video, more rescue people have gone down into the mine, it looks there are more men from topside down the mine now than what remains of the 33 miners.. :confused:

The management thanks you for your co operation.

Morlock
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14 years ago

#53

Wiki have been trying to keep abreast of the action.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Copiap%C3%B3_mining_accident

Interesting that the rescue capsule is based on a design used in an accident in 1963, (at much shallower depth).

Phil Ford
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14 years ago

#54

All the miners and the rescuers are OUT of the mine. Long haul for them. :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Ty Gwyn
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14 years ago

#55

Excellent news.

RichardLevett
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14 years ago

#56

I wonder what the miner who had his wife and girlfriend waiting for him was thinking as he was winched up the shaft?

Tezarchaeon
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14 years ago

#57

"RichardLevett" wrote:
I wonder what the miner who had his wife and girlfriend waiting for him was thinking as he was winched up the shaft?

"Celebratory three way for me tonight!"

I.A.Recordings
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14 years ago

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"Morlock" wrote:

Interesting that the rescue capsule is based on a design used in an accident in 1963, (at much shallower depth).

It's actually based on a much older design, it is effectively a "Dahlbusch Bomb". Named after it's first successful use in 1955 when it rescued 3 miners after an underground fire at the Dahlbusch Colliery, Gelsenkirchen-Rotthausen, Germany.

It was used again in Germany on 7th November 1963 when 11 miners trapped in the Lengede-Broistedt ore mine were recovered.

This latter rescue inspired several films and documentaries. The German news channel N-TV were showing some of the 1963 news film and interviewing survivors from that rescue, getting them to compare then with now.

Preserved examples of Dahlbusch Bombs can be found at the Deutsches Bergbau Museum, Bochum and the Grube Samson mining museum - this one has a preserved man-engine, plus underground reversable winding waterwheels.

NortonRay
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14 years ago

#59

Apparently one of the mine managers has been criticised for asking the President when he visited the rescued miners in hospital to ask them if any of them wanted to work the week-end! 😉 😉

Visit YouTube and select:

Rita MacNeill Working Man sirrussellot

singing with a choir of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, coal miners.
A beautiful and moving tribute to all miners everywhere.

NickPeak
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#60

Wednesday 27 October, Channel 4 8.00pm

"Buried Alive: the Chilean Mine Rescue"

The first (of many?) documentaries and films.