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From CNN:
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(CNN) -- Thirty-three miners trapped underground in a mine are alive and in a shelter, Chilean President Sebastian Pinera said on Sunday, raising hopes for the first time in the nearly three weeks since the mine collapsed.
Rescuers retrieved a note from the mine that said all of the miners are alive, the president said. The handwritten note was tied to a probe authorities had sent underground earlier on Sunday.
Officials cautioned it could still take months to rescue the trapped workers.
"Now we know the most important thing. They are alive," said Pinera, who spoke outside the mine.
Cheers erupted around the president as relatives and friends of the miners celebrated, video from CNN Chile showed. The workers have been trapped since the mine caved in on August 5.
Andres Sougarret, who is in charge of rescue operations, said he hoped to make further contact with the miners later on Sunday, though he warned it could take as long as four months to get them out of the mine.
He said rescuers would send down a camera and microphones in hopes of learning more about the miners' conditions. Authorities are also planning to send food, medicine and other necessities as needed.
"It'll take time. But it's not important how long it takes. What's most important is that everything ends well," said Pinera.
Beaming, the president held the note pulled from the mine for television cameras. Written in Spanish in red ink, it read simply: "The 33 of us are fine in the shelter."
Rescuers said they also retrieved a second note written by a miner, identified as Mario Gomez, to his family. Gomez' note was wrapped in a plastic bag and tied to the probe with large rubber bands.
The trapped miners are thought to be inside a small shelter that would have had some water and food supplies in it, said CNN Chile Correspondent Francisco Siredey. The shelter is believed to be roughtly 2,300 feet underground in the mine, which produces copper and gold.
The mine is located in the Atacama region in northern Chile, the world's largest producer of copper.
Post subject: Re: Trapped Chilean miners alive after 17 days.
Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2010 2:30 am
On the bright side
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Yeah. You mean to tell me there isn't something, some piece of equiment, somewhere in the world that they could get there and get the hole drilled faster than Christmas? I read somewhere today that the "escape" tunnel they plan to bore is only 66 centimeters in diameter.
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Post subject: Re: Trapped Chilean miners alive after 17 days.
Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2010 2:35 am
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E.H. Ruddock wrote:
Yeah. You mean to tell me there isn't something, some piece of equiment, somewhere in the world that they could get there and get the hole drilled faster than Christmas? I read somewhere today that the "escape" tunnel they plan to bore is only 66 centimeters in diameter.
Maybe some of the guys are bigger than that, and they need to give them a few months to lose some weight.
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Post subject: Re: Trapped Chilean miners alive after 17 days.
Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2010 4:46 pm
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E.H. Ruddock wrote:
Yeah. You mean to tell me there isn't something, some piece of equiment, somewhere in the world that they could get there and get the hole drilled faster than Christmas? I read somewhere today that the "escape" tunnel they plan to bore is only 66 centimeters in diameter.
Imagine the complexities. They have to drill through unstable surfaces with very complex equipment all the while not killing the people they are trying to rescue with a cave in or further injuring them. So first they have to actually acquire the equipment, get it too the site form a plan and start digging round the clock. 2 or 3000 ft is a LONG way down. This is one reason the gulf spill was so tenuous. It's freaking deep man.
66 cm for 3000 ft. Man if the 2 months underground doesn't kill you then you have what 3 hours of freaking claustrophobia. Unimaginable.
Post subject: Re: Trapped Chilean miners alive after 17 days.
Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2010 6:30 pm
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33 guys in 500 sq feet. Makes me rethink the "We don't have room for your brother to move in." statement.
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