First Chilean miner rescued

Two rescuers to be brought up, according to BBC News 24.
 
Agatha said:
Two rescuers to be brought up, according to BBC News 24.
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Ah,thanks. I hadn't seen detailed information on this, just projections about what was planned. And that a mining engineer had gone down first.

Rolfe.
 
Rolfe said:
Ah,thanks. I hadn't seen detailed information on this, just projections about what was planned. And that a mining engineer had gone down first.

Rolfe.
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I think they sent down a mining engineer (one who was an expert in mine collapses) and someone with a medical background, to evaluate the miners as they were being sent up.

I also learned a bit more about the wife vs mistress miner (Yonni Barrios). One of the news agencies reported that there's a possibility that he's been separated from his wife, and has had a 10-year long relationship with his mistress, whom the extended family knows about, and apparently they really like this woman. He invited both his estranged wife and his mistress to meet him at the top of the mine, but the wife said she was boycotting, and didn't show up.

Still sounds like a horrible situation for everyone, but it'll probably work itself out ok, once international attention is off them.
 
News 24 is filling the periods between miners coming to the surface with repeats of earlier footage, interviews, live broadcast from the hospital, and discussion of the rescue. It's informative but they do keep repeating themselves!

Apparently the oldest miner has pneumonia, so will have to stay in hospital for a bit longer than otherwise.

The live feed from the bottom of the shaft is really odd - suddenly a pink capsule drops out of the roof, is loaded up and disappears back into the roof.
 
Yay yay yay! This is so great, I'm so happy for them all. I hope they get a nice long paid vacation after this to recover.

Praise to the rescue workers, praise to the drillers who dug them out, praise to the scientists who developed the machines that saved them! Oh, and praise to the miners who kept calm in such terrible conditions!
 
Weak Kitten said:
Yay yay yay! This is so great, I'm so happy for them all. I hope they get a nice long paid vacation after this to recover.
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I think the media will make sure about the "paid" part. Apparently they're being given professional advice about how to milk the media for all the money they can get, and they intend to pool it and share. And the very best of luck to them, they deserve to profit from this if they can.

Weak Kitten said:
Praise to the rescue workers, praise to the drillers who dug them out, praise to the scientists who developed the machines that saved them! Oh, and praise to the miners who kept calm in such terrible conditions!
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And amen to that!

Rolfe.
 
The 26th one is about to be brought up, it's so wonderful to have such a good news story.

Apparently the 25th miner was brought up in the fastest time yet - 9 minutes and 13 seconds for the ascent.
 
Agatha said:
The 26th one is about to be brought up, it's so wonderful to have such a good news story.

Apparently the 25th miner was brought up in the fastest time yet - 9 minutes and 13 seconds for the ascent.
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I got first dibs when they start selling E tickets for this ride :)
 
I was trying to think of what little pleasures that we take for granted would the miners be most interested in when they got out... kind of like when Tom Hanks' character from Castaway marveled at the ice cubes in his drink at the end of the movie (sorry if that's a spoiler :blush:).

I read that there's a couch up there at Camp Hope that a few of the miners flopped down on after doing the hugs and handshakes tour. Sitting on a couch would be super nice after 2 months of relaxing on rocks... even if it's a crap couch like the one in my old apartment.

I'm sure getting a nice shower goes without saying...
 
According to the BBC, five of the miners have "complicated" personal lives, with both a wife and a mistress, but they nominate three people to meet them at the surface, thus eliminating the likelihood of fisticuffs.

There seems to be a lot of confusion about how many rescuers are with them, I've seen sites saying five, and sites saying two. The BBC have said both five and two, so who knows.
 
Oh, that little girl (miner 28's sister)! I am weeping now with joy, this is so wonderful.
 
I really should sleep but I can't stop watching.

My boss, who was imprisoned and tortured during the Pinochet regime, will undoubtedly be staying awake to watch the rescue, so I expect he'll forgive any of us who are sleepy.
 
I'm getting tired of the flowery verbiage that the reporters feel that they need to come up with. A little while ago I heard someone say "Logic said they shouldn't survive." Blech! Where's the barfing smiley?

Steve S
 
From the BBC:
Raul Bustos, the next miner due out [30], is "luckiest unlucky man on Earth", according to his wife Carola Narvaez. He lost his builder's business in the central port city of Talcahuano during Chile's monster earthquake and tsunami in February, and headed north to the San Jose mine for a new start...
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