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33 Trapped Chile Miners Alive 17 Days - Politics, Business, Civil, History - Posted: 17th Sep, 2010 - 9:58pm
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33 Trapped Chile Miners Found Alive After 17 Days
33 trapped Chile miners found alive after 17 days
Authorities and relatives of the miners hugged, climbed a nearby hill, planted 33 flags and sang the national anthem Sunday after a probe sent some 2,257 feet deep into the mine came back with the note. "Today all of Chile is crying with excitement and joy," President Sebastian Pinera said. Ref. Source 1
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I read in the newspapers that the rescue may take MONTHS. However, they asked NASA for the kind of food that astronauts eat in space and that may help in this situation. They have water, medication but they are very hungry.
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The Chilean authorities have been in contact with NASA because the conditions of the miners is similar to what astronauts go through in space.
QUOTE (Aug. 26) -- The 33 miners trapped by a cave-in at a mine in northern Chile have been told they may be stuck underground for four more months.
"We were able to tell them ... They would not be rescued before the Fiestas Patrias [Chile's September 18 Independence Day celebrations], and that we hoped to get them out before Christmas," Health Minister Jaime Manalich said Wednesday, according to Agence France-Presse. He added that the men -- who are trapped 2,300 feet below the surface -- didn't panic after hearing the timetable, but warned that they could suffer "a period of depression, anguish and severe malaise" in the coming days.
Speaking to the men via a microphone lowered into the mine, Chilean President Sebastian Pinera promised to reunite the workers with their families. "Mr. President," said the miners' leader Luis Urzua, according to the BBC, "we need you to be strong and to rescue us as soon as possible. Don't abandon us."
"You will not be left alone, you have not been alone," Pinera responded. "The government is with you all, the entire country is with you all."
Officials held back the bleak news about the lengthy rescue process after the workers were discovered alive in a shelter on Sunday. That was 17 days after the collapse of the gold and copper mine's main access tunnel. They had worried that the information would shatter the men's morale. Until then, they had been surviving on a near-starvation diet.
In an effort to keep up the workers' psychological and physical health over the coming months, authorities are now developing a special exercise and recreation routine modeled on a NASA program. "This situation is very similar to that of the astronauts who are in space stations for months," Manalich said, according to The Santiago Times, adding that Chilean authorities had been in contact with the U.S. Space agency....
"We were able to tell them ... They would not be rescued before the Fiestas Patrias [Chile's September 18 Independence Day celebrations], and that we hoped to get them out before Christmas," Health Minister Jaime Manalich said Wednesday, according to Agence France-Presse. He added that the men -- who are trapped 2,300 feet below the surface -- didn't panic after hearing the timetable, but warned that they could suffer "a period of depression, anguish and severe malaise" in the coming days.
Speaking to the men via a microphone lowered into the mine, Chilean President Sebastian Pinera promised to reunite the workers with their families. "Mr. President," said the miners' leader Luis Urzua, according to the BBC, "we need you to be strong and to rescue us as soon as possible. Don't abandon us."
"You will not be left alone, you have not been alone," Pinera responded. "The government is with you all, the entire country is with you all."
Officials held back the bleak news about the lengthy rescue process after the workers were discovered alive in a shelter on Sunday. That was 17 days after the collapse of the gold and copper mine's main access tunnel. They had worried that the information would shatter the men's morale. Until then, they had been surviving on a near-starvation diet.
In an effort to keep up the workers' psychological and physical health over the coming months, authorities are now developing a special exercise and recreation routine modeled on a NASA program. "This situation is very similar to that of the astronauts who are in space stations for months," Manalich said, according to The Santiago Times, adding that Chilean authorities had been in contact with the U.S. Space agency....
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Post Date: 14th Sep, 2010 - 11:42pm / Post ID: #
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33 Trapped Chile Miners Found Alive After 17 Days
Trapped: Inside the Chilean Mine Collapse
The 33 Entombed Men Wait, Watch and Pray for Rescue
There is no specialized equipment for underground rescue on this scale. Everything here is being improvised. Over the weekend, a convoy of 42 huge flatbed trucks -- many them used by the Chilean Army to move tanks -- carted in a massive drill rig normally used for oil wells. Ref. Source 9
Post Date: 17th Sep, 2010 - 9:58pm / Post ID: #
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With this wider hole they can send down better food and supplies to these trapped men. I know it is still going to be a while before they can be back on the surface but each day that goes by makes it one day closer to getting their freedom back.
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