Relatives of the 33 trapped miners continued to camp outside the entrance to the San Jose mine Saturday. Few rescues have taken more than two weeks, but Chilean officials have said that his rescue operation may take until Christmas. (Aug. 28)
Mostrando entradas con la etiqueta mina San José. Mostrar todas las entradas
Mostrando entradas con la etiqueta mina San José. Mostrar todas las entradas
domingo, agosto 29, 2010
viernes, agosto 27, 2010
Video Messages From Trapped Chilean Miners - NYTimes.com
the Ledge - NYTimes.com, by Alexis Barrionuevo and Robert Mackey, 27/08/2010 09:39 AM.-
Relatives of 33 miners trapped in a collapsed mine shaft far below in Chile’s Atacama Desert have been shown new video of the men in which they send greetings to the surface, show the space they are confined in and sing the Chilean national anthem.
The miners, who have been trapped for three weeks almost half a mile underground, appear in good spirits and reasonably good health in the new video images of them in their subterranean home.
The video, shown to family members late Thursday night and on Chilean national television, was recorded by a minicamera sent by the government in the plastic tubes being used to deliver food and other items through a hole about four inches in diameter.
Relatives of 33 miners trapped in a collapsed mine shaft far below in Chile’s Atacama Desert have been shown new video of the men in which they send greetings to the surface, show the space they are confined in and sing the Chilean national anthem.
The miners, who have been trapped for three weeks almost half a mile underground, appear in good spirits and reasonably good health in the new video images of them in their subterranean home.
The video, shown to family members late Thursday night and on Chilean national television, was recorded by a minicamera sent by the government in the plastic tubes being used to deliver food and other items through a hole about four inches in diameter.
miércoles, agosto 25, 2010
A Relieved Chile Braces for a Long Mine Rescue - Simon Romero - The New York Times
Through a skinny borehole from the surface, the 33 miners trapped more than 2,000 feet below the parched earth here have gotten a gel-like substance to keep them alive, tiny lights to illuminate the darkness and encouraging notes from their families waiting above.
What they have not gotten is the difficult news: that it could take more than three months to pull them to the surface. No one has told them, for fear of breaking their spirit.
“Psychologically, we have to try to keep them on the right track,” said Laurence Golborne, Chile’s mining minister. “They are miners, so they understand the situation they are living. They understand that we have to go through 700 meters of solid rock to rescue them.” But even so, he added, “we don’t want them to suffer ups and downs.”
For many of the families now camping in a makeshift tent city outside the mine, a place bursting with Chilean flags and religious artifacts, it was nothing short of a miracle when President Sebastián Piñera presented a handwritten note from the miners on national television on Sunday, assuring Chile that all of the miners had somehow survived their feared entombment after a cave-in on Aug. 5.
- Hazards of long confinement, The New York Times, 24/08/2010
lunes, agosto 23, 2010
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