Hugs,Cheers and Tears
The rescue operation has already started 69 days after 33 Chilean miners were trapped in a collapsed mine a half-mile underground in SAN JOSE MINE, Chile.
Here’s their plan to rescue them: There is a narrow hole that's only wide enough to fit one man that will take a rescue worker down in a 13-foot-tall escape capsule. The rescue worker will then start the operation, and the miners will be hauled back to the surface one at a time in the capsule he rode down on. If everything goes well, it could take as little as 11 minutes to as long as half an hour or more. During the possibly long trip back to the surface, the miners will have a hands-free phone to communicate with rescue workers.
Rescuers began pulling 33 men one by one to fresh air and freedom at last on Wednesday, using the missile-like escape capsule. It was specially created and designed by an American technician. They were pulled to the surface from their underground prison nearly 2,300 feet /700 meters below to laughing rescuers, to hugs , cheers and tears.
Five men were pulled out in the first five hours of the apparently problem-free operation in the Chile's Atacama desert. Up to now 7 miners were rescued and the last one was a 19 year-old-miner Jimmy Sanchez.
Florencio Avalos was the first rescued miner, who wore sunglasses to protect him from the glare of bright lights. He smiled broadly as he emerged and hugged his sobbing 7-year-old son, Bairon, and wife, then got a bearhug from Chilean President Sebastian Pinera shortly after midnight local time.
A second miner, Mario Sepulveda Espina, was pulled to the surface about an hour later. His shouts were heard even before the capsule surfaced. He hugged his wife first, Elvira, and his daughter then he handed rescuers souvenir rocks he brought from his underground prison nearly 2,300 feet (700 meters) below.Then he jumped up and down as if to prove his strength before the medical team took him to a triage unit.
Espina said later in a special interview room set up by the government,"I think I had extraordinary luck. ... I was with God and with the devil — and God took me."
He praised the rescue operation, saying: "It's incredible that they saved us from 700 meters below." He thanked all the rescuers and said, “Love is the most beautiful thing.”
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