The 33 miners from Chile were stuck underground for 69 days before they were rescued on October 13, 2010.
The miners in Chile were trapped underground due to a cave-in at the San José copper-gold mine. The collapse blocked the exit and trapped the miners about 2,300 feet below the surface. Efforts were made to rescue them, resulting in their eventual successful extraction after 69 days.
The mine in Chile's Atacama Desert collapsed on August 5, trapping 33 miners within. It was only on August 22, 17 days later, that contact was made with them. Before this, the longest time spent underground by survivors of a mine collapse was 25 days. That's how long survivors were trapped in 2009, in a flooded mine in southern China. They survived for those first two and a half weeks on food and water rations that were in the shaft that sheltered them. Since the supplies there were only enough to last for 48 hours, they were severely rationing the amounts taken each day by each of the men. Each man was allowed two spoons of tuna, one half biscuit and a half cup of milk every two days. They have already lost more than 20 pounds (9 kilograms) each.
They are nearly 625 meters below the surface with some of the toughest, hardest rock in the world between them and daylight. The escape hole was completed on Saturday the 10/10/10 (John Lennon's 70th Birthday) with much of the credit going to the skill of a 40 year old American, Jeff Hart."After the cave-in, engineers initially bored narrow shafts the width of a grapefruit to locate the men.When they were found 17 days after the accident, all still alive, celebrations sprang up across Chile. Rescuers then passed high-energy gels, water and food down the narrow ducts to keep the miners alive".
No, the Chilean Earthquake did not knock the Earth off its axis. Earthquakes can cause localized changes in the Earth's rotation, but they do not have the capability to shift the entire axis of the Earth.
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The Chilean miners were underground for 69 days before being rescued.
The 33 miners from Chile were stuck underground for 69 days before they were rescued on October 13, 2010.
the Chile miners were trapped in the mine for 69 days
The cave over them was collapsing due to erosion and they had to dig holes underground for the lift up because there in tubes and 15min after last person was brought out the cave, it collapsed and they would have all been dead if they hadn't been brought out.
It took about 15 minutes per person. They did it in a bit under 24 hours
31 people were trapped in the mine. they were there for 69 days.
I am guessing they might have prayed, ate & shared the food that they had, used the restroom and basic stuff like that, and slept. It's hard to get a sense of what they were going through if you haven't been trapped in a mine before.
How did the miners live in th early days?
It took 69 days to rescue all 33 miners from the San Jose mine in Chile in 2010. The miners were trapped underground following a cave-in on August 5th and were eventually brought to the surface on October 13th.
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The miners in Chile were trapped underground due to a cave-in at the San José copper-gold mine. The collapse blocked the exit and trapped the miners about 2,300 feet below the surface. Efforts were made to rescue them, resulting in their eventual successful extraction after 69 days.