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Morlock
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9 years ago

May be of interest?

https://www.rt.com/usa/328182-syracuse-salt-mine-rescue/

A bit more reading.

http://www.fractracker.org/2014/02/ancient-seas/

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tiger99
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9 years ago

Yes very interesting!

But I detect a high degree of journalistic excess. Being stuck in a cage "elevator" and being lifted by crane in a basket is undoubtedly somewhat distressing, but trivial compared to the ordeal of those guys in South America a while back, who had to wait weeks for a hole of minimal diameter to be drilled. The Schramm drilling machine was seriously impressive!

Morlock
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9 years ago

"tiger99" wrote:
. The Schramm drilling machine was seriously impressive!

The whole rescue effort (and all the kit involved) was most impressive.

tiger99
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9 years ago

I totally agree. I followed it closely on the internet. All that was achieved in a country which we probably regard as not fully developed and politically unstable, yet the president took a strong personal interest in the rescue. Could we actually organise a rescue like that in the UK, and would Cameron, or any of his predecessors, take time to personally greet each miner as they came up?

Morlock
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9 years ago

I also followed the rescue operations on a daily, (sometimes hourly) basis as the rescue progressed, a most impressive international effort.

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

Trailer for the film.

Least said about Cameron the better.:curse:

AdM Michael
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9 years ago

Not really impressive that they needed 10 h, 15 external agencies and a hired crane for the job.

Would have been easy to deal with in a much shorter time with a proper emergency winder, either a fixed one on site or a mobile one shared between several mines and a small team.