Chilean Miners... Hell of an ending....

[JustJason]

To a hell of a story. Kudos to those guys!

 

[Bigprairie1]

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...yeah, great work all around. You don't see that happen often.
I thought we were the only ones tuned into this event.
Great ending for them.
BP

 

[Gary H NC]

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Great ending! Glad they all made it out.

 

[kenmyfam]

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Nice to see a good ending to this.

 

[BWR1953]

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The last rescuer is on his way up right now. No more humans in that hole in the ground! WTG Chile!

 

[paultjohnson]

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Bet all those guy are gonna want to sleep outside lookin at the sky for months

 

[DayCruiser]

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I bet it wasn't as hard on them as we might think since they are use to being underground. Now they would have had to commit me to a insane asylum once I got out

 

[Bob_VT]

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Living proof that Prayer's can be answered.

 

[levittownnick]

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I could not even start to imagine what it was like. I prayed for them often. Thank be to God and God bless all those involved.

Nick

 

[lckstckn2smknbrls]

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I know what I'll be for halloween.

 

[geeco1]

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First thing that I would have done when rescued, is go to the time-clock and punch out..... then ask for the overtime pay.

 

[korygrandy]

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Watch out for a hole in chile...you don't want to fall 2000 feet. One helluva a boobytrap though.

The thing I found most interesting about this whole crisis was how it was handled. The US really needs to learn a few things from the Chileans responsible for this rescue effort.

20/20 was speaking of the Gulf oil spill in comparison to this...although these are 2 completely different crisis...there should be some lessons to be learned from Chile that may have helped the crisis in the gulf.

I will admit I was a little embarrassed to be an american during that gulf spill. I'm still a proud american but I don't think that was americas proudest moment.

 

[JB]

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http://forums.iboats.com/showthread.php?t=444790

 

[avenger79]

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can't even imagine how hard that would be to be in one "room" with the same people with no fresh air for almost 70 days..

glad they're all out safe.

 

[joed]

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I don't think they were stuck in the one room. The mine exit was blocked but the rest of the mine below the cave in was still fully open.

 

[eastont]

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I have been riveted to this since it first became news and other than a few pee breaks, I watched each and every miner come up.

It is very interesting to see just how well a country with not even half the resources available in North America and do a superb job. Whether it was here in Canada or the US, we'd screw it up just by over engineering the whole process.
We'd have committees, computer mock-ups, parliamentary/senate hearings and spend months trying to find out who to blame before any actual work got done to free the miners.
I loved when I heard it was the Chilean Navy that manufactured the capsule and winches etc.

Chi, Chi, Chi le, le le,

Congratulations to all involved.


As Daycruiser said.....I'd be locked up in an insane asylum along with him.

 

[rodbolt]

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glad it all worked well and months ahead of schedule.
but.... before ya go knocking the US to badly.
where was the capsule DESIGNED,? where did the drill rig come from that bored the hole for the capsule?
where did the drill rig operators come from?
the BP thing wasnt handled by the US that was the UK and BP.
but yes the chilian govt realized it was beyond them and asked for assistance and recieved it.
and we did it back in 2002 in a US mine, if you remember.
yes the chilean navy built a lot of equipment for this rescue, go read who and where the designs came from.
look where the cable came from.
folks this was an international effort not just 1 country.
and it was GOOD.

 

[stic88]

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alot of people and orginizations went into saving these souls. I think there could have been a little more urgency to get to them. i know it wasnt as deep, but when we, the US, had the miners trapped we had a rig drilling onsite within a few days. The first seventeen days no one knew if they were alive, so for the miners to think of and act upon the survival training is to be praised. These 33 men did more to save their own lives than the people on surface did to reach them. These 33 men have nerves and fortitude of steel. Thank the Big Guy upstairs that they were rescued because this could have easily went the other way. I wonder if the men will ever go back into the mine. I would not want to even go into the bathroom.

 

[Biged007]

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glad it all worked well and months ahead of schedule.
but.... before ya go knocking the US to badly.
where was the capsule DESIGNED,? where did the drill rig come from that bored the hole for the capsule?
where did the drill rig operators come from?
the BP thing wasnt handled by the US that was the UK and BP.
but yes the chilian govt realized it was beyond them and asked for assistance and recieved it.
and we did it back in 2002 in a US mine, if you remember.
yes the chilean navy built a lot of equipment for this rescue, go read who and where the designs came from.
look where the cable came from.
folks this was an international effort not just 1 country.
and it was GOOD.

One of the best quotes that I heard from all of this was from one of their people something to the effect of "When we the human race can unite and put aside our petty differences there is almost nothing that we can't accomplish"