Tag: Trapped miners

Chilean miners – further update

Two months today

Nice to see the BBC maintaining a news stream on the Chilean miners who were trapped underground two months ago – the 5th August.

Here’s the page on the BBC website that has a very good summary of progress to date.

Workers pump water through a tube to miners trapped at the San Jose mine in Copiapo, Chile. AP photo.

By Paul Handover

Chilean mine rescue – update

At last some recent news.

One of the problems of our modern media is that there is so much competition for news that old stories frequently just seem to disappear.

So it was delightful to find in last Saturday’s Daily Telegraph news that the rescue shaft had achieved a very important milestone – the pilot shaft, 12 inches in diameter, had broken through to the chamber where the miners patiently wait for their rescue.

Rescuers working to release 33 trapped Chilean miners have achieved a pivotal breakthrough by drilling an escape shaft through to the underground chamber occupied by the men.

Anyway, full story is here

And, of course, life does go on as this video clip happily illustrates.

By Paul Handover