NYTimes, 23/08/2010, excerpt/extracto.-
It was a remarkable tale of survival from the depths of a collapsed Chilean mine: After more than two weeks of failed rescue efforts, a video camera threaded deep underground captured the first images of 33 miners, all alive and apparently in good health.
The discovery more than 2,000 feet underground sparked jubilant celebrations nationwide on Sunday, but on Monday, it became clear that the miners’ 18-day ordeal was far from over.
Government officials said it could now take as long as four months to dig a new tunnel wide enough to lift the miners, one by one, to the surface, meaning that they could remain trapped in the gold-and-copper mine until Christmas. Until then, crews will use a thin shaft as an umbilical cord to keep the miners alive, lowering food, water and medicine, and exchanging information about the rescue efforts and carrying communications from family members.
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