What other country is shaped long and thin like that FFS ?
Well there's one obvious candidate with a fairly large length to width ratio I'd have thought you'd be familiar with, Che.
Otherwise, Italy, Norway, Vietnam
So now they're feeding down a phone cable. Given they've already had a fibre optic video link down one of the other holes you'd think they'd be keeping the main hole as clear as possible to avoid any chance of snagging.
So what would you do first when you got home from being trapped down a mine for 10 weeks ? Showering perhaps ??
I'm not very impressed - so far there are only 2 less down there than they started with.
no flies on oakley's product placement. the mineros are all coming out wearing radars (unless they're standard issue in mining...!)
Apparently they are playing "Shaft" by "Issac Hayes" as they pop out.
Someone said "Land down under" by "Men at work" or "Going underground" by "The Jam" but some said it was a bit dis tasteful. 😀
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I'm not very impressed - so far there are only 2 less down there than they started with.
4 were out as I was eating my brekkie at 7:40
The whole point surely isn't the principal of using a cage on a wire to go down a hole, but how tiny this one is and how long the hole is!
True. Have just checked the measurements on the Chilean one, and it is 10cm narrower in diameter than the one in the photo, which is still a rescuse cage, but as said, I didn't have to use it under the duress of an emergency situation.
That said, I was working from within that thing over several weeks!
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Be excellent to see this rescue completed.
It's going to be quite some overtime they've accrued when they clock off shift
It's going to be quite some overtime they've accrued when they clock off shift
Shame they won't be getting paid for it
So what would you do first when you got home from being trapped down a mine for 10 weeks ? Showering perhaps ??
If I was that bloke I'd be going double up on Wife & Girlfriend.... although as his sister seems to be spokesperson it may be a delicate 1st assignment for her.
no flies on oakley's product placement. the mineros are all coming out wearing radars (unless they're standard issue in mining...!)
I wondered about this too. Oakley donated the glasses to fill the need for 100% UV filtration to prevent retina damage on surface. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/chile/8049884/Chile-miners-sunglasses-men-will-wear-to-see-the-light.html
so far they are coming up looking far better than I do first thing in the morning.
A film?could be a bit boring...
But very glad that they are all coming out unharmed. I hope they all get a decent bit of cash for their stories and don't have to go back underground.
Oakley will have donated glasses and paid to make sure they're used
The glasses retail for about a months salary for a miner
A film?could be a bit boring...
I doubt that - for the first 17 days they didn't think they would ever get out.
Imagine what that could do to a man's head - 17 days to contemplate a slow and painful death in claustrophobic surroundings and another 32 men all thinking equally dark thoughts...
I've noticed the Chilean president is greeting each miner as he comes out. He's going to be getting a bit tired by the time the last one comes out even with half hour catnaps!
I expect there will be a fantastical Hollywood film made of this. With American miners and rescuers, set in America.
I doubt that - for the first 17 days they didn't think they would ever get out.
Imagine what that could do to a man's head - 17 days to contemplate a slow and painful death in claustrophobic surroundings and another 32 men all thinking equally dark thoughts...
Yeah, what they're not shouting about is the fact that there were [i]originally [/i] 35 miners unaccounted for...
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set in America.
Well no, it would be set in somewhere evil like Iraq because American mines are brilliant.
Matt Damon will save the day.
With American miners and rescuers, set in America
Isn't it already American miners in America?
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Fake but oh so plausible.
I wonder if any of them turned 'Sister' while they were in there. Might be a shock when they get back out.
Wonder if the last one out will switch the lights off?
They're not hanging about!
They can turn that capsule round faster than Ryan Air can do a 737. I bet that it is full of crumbs and toffee wrappers and that the sick bags haven't been replaced.
in the film, there'll be a bit more tension, like the mine will be flooding and slowly filling up.
HIP HIP HOOORAY! 
damn I thought this was a thread about over cautious riding in the Chilterns.
So what would you do first when you got home from being trapped down a mine for 10 weeks ? Showering perhaps ??
They have been able to have a shower everyday, so I'm not sure how much of a priority it will be for them :
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[i]"Morning showers require the men to climb aboard a bulldozer-type mining vehicle that rumbles 300 metres up the tunnel to a natural waterfall where they shower, shampoo and clean off the ubiquitous rust-coloured mud.
Showers and breakfast are followed by morning chores............"[/i]
It's a shame my wife isn't trapped down that mine with those Chilean miners.
They'd have ****ing dug themselves out by now.
Is that guy that was lowered down into the mine still down there? One of the ballsiest things i've ever seen.
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I've noticed the Chilean president is greeting each miner as he comes out. He's going to be getting a bit tired by the time the last one comes out even with half hour catnaps!
Meanwhile, in another country further north, the President is away playing golf. Again.
To be serious, though, this is an incredible story, and after many mine accidents this one looked like another tragic addition to the list. The work carried out by the engineers to achieve what they have in such an inhospitable environment is astonishing, and in such a calm and methodical manner. This is really miraculous, and for once a cause for genuine celebration. Sometimes the very best you can wish for can actually come true. Great news for the people of Chile, who, as elfin said, have had much ill-fortune over the years.
Lol @ Teeto
I actually contacted Oakley last week to tell them they should provide glasses for the miners, they told me that they were already on it.
I'm keeping my eye open for a pair to appear on ebay for my collection 😉
Not sure i'd like to be this bloke coming out now. Wife or girlfriend why not have both.
Apparently the rescue pod is now making it's last ascent according to the BBC commentators. Don't know if anybody's told the 5 rescuers still down there!
...they keep doing it
"the last time we're going to see the capsule coming up like this"
"this rescue is coming to an end"
I'm getting really worried about those blokes still down there.
Thank god for that - the president remembered about the men still down there.
Wahoo! I stayed up for this, It's just like apollo 13 or sommat, perhaps. Fantastic result. It's so good to see some good news on the telly instead of all the miserable shit. brilliant.
Apparently 25,000 men are killed in mining incidents each year around the world, just shows the power of the media really and nothing more....
A great feel-good story no doubt, and it must have been horrible for those guys trapped down there. The only thing I've found annoying over the past few days is all the psychologists popping up every time I turn the radio on blabbering on about it being essential these guys get counselling. I even heard one say the rescuers would need counselling too.
I've long been of the opinion these sort of people cause more problems than they solve. The miners are tough guys, and are probably just delighted to be free and back with friends and family. The last thing they need is some self-centred quack insisting they have "problems" and "issues they need to work through".
Apparently 25,000 men are killed in mining incidents each year around the world
75 a day? Really? How come we don't hear about all this carnage? Have you maybe got the numbers a little wrong?
I think the first guy down (Manuel Gonzalez, I think) was the last guy back up. He had the biggest balls by far. The look in his eyes as he was to be lowered into the pit was telling. Poo-scared, but doing it anyway.
Top chap.
Apparently 25,000 men are killed in mining incidents each year around the world75 a day? Really? How come we don't hear about all this carnage? Have you maybe got the numbers a little wrong?
True - according the the Federation of Mineworkers in Radio 4 last night. 15,000 a year they reckon in China alone.
Guy on the radio said official figures from the union members around the world was something like 12-14k deaths per year that were recorded. They also reckon China and Africa have thousdands die every year that go unrecorded, China alone thought to be in the region of 15-20k and many children in Africa that die un recorded.
Can you imagine if this was any other industry or a war?
So are there lots of mines where one or two people die every day/week/month, or are there large groups of people being killed we don't hear about? I mean given those figures, every time they got a Chilean miner out another 2 or 3 people had been killed in a mine.
