Chilean rescuers ended a marathon operation Tuesday and freed all 33 miners trapped underground for more than two months. All of the rescued miners were sent for medical treatment and several of them are expected to undergo surgery in the coming days.
Chile Completes Rescue of All 33 Miners
Chilean rescuers ended a marathon operation Tuesday and freed all 33 miners trapped underground for more than two months. All of the rescued miners were sent for medical treatment and several of them are expected to undergo surgery in the coming days.
Chilean officials say the rescue operation at the San Jose mine in northern Chile advanced more quickly than expected. Initially, officials said it might take 48 hours to pull the miners to the surface through a 622-meter rescue shaft.
Rescue crews honed the process throughout the day, enabling them to pull each miner to the surface in about 15 minutes.
Rescue crews and officials cheer and clap as each miner arrives at the surface, where family members are waiting for him. Medical teams rush each man to a hospital in nearby Copiapó for a thorough examination.
Chile’s President Sebastián Piñera is at the site to greet each rescued miner.
After Victor Zamora surfaced, Mr. Piñera told him that he was never alone, saying that the government fulfilled its promise to bring the men back alive.
The rescue ends a two-month-long ordeal for the men, who were trapped by a cave-in at the gold and copper mine on August 5. The men were cut off from the surface for 17 days, until a drilling crew located them.
Chilean Mining Minister Laurence Golborne offered thanks to scores of experts and others who have helped carry out the rescue operation. But he cautioned that the job was not over yet.
Golborne said weeks of work are finally paying off, but officials will not be satisfied until the rescue is completed.
Health Minister Jaime Mañalich says many of the miners appear to be in better health than expected. He says each miner will undergo a series of tests, including a lung x-ray and heart monitoring, and that some might receive psychiatric treatment, if needed.
A few miners are expected to receive dental surgery in the coming days to treat abscesses and other conditions. Mañalich says the most serious case was a miner with pneumonia.
He says the miner will likely remain in intensive care for several days to receive oxygen and other treatments.
More than 1,000 journalists are covering the rescue operation at the remote San Jose mine in the Atacama desert. During the past two months, relatives of the miners and rescue crews have gathered outside the mine, forming a community they call Camp Hope.
Millions of people around the world are watching the rescue operation unfold on television. In Washington, U.S. President Barack Obama says he watched the first miner being freed, adding that it was a tribute to the hard work of the rescue workers and the Chilean people. He thanked people from around the world who contributed to the operation, including a U.S.-based drilling team and experts from the U.S. space agency, NASA.
liar liar
something doesnt seem right were they able too shave down there they look all clean shaven impossible after so long underground
staged event for publicity
BASEMENT LIVING
THERE WERE MANY PEOPLE THROUGHOUT THE HOLOCAUST THAT LIVED IN BASEMENTS WITH FEAR FOR THEIR LIVES DAILY.. AND THEY LIVED THERE NOT SEEING THE LIGHT OF DAY FOR MONTHS ( WITH NO COPPER FIBER SOCKS EITHER)
THANKS G-D!!!
Finally!! Thank G-d!!!! It was way sooner then expected though… They thought it would be around December!!
Donations
A Chilean Jewish businessman – Leonardo Farkas – has given $10,000 to each miner. He has also set up a fund for people to conribute to each miner and their family. If the over a billion people who were watching around the world, and were so moved and happy by the rescue, would give jus $1 each, the miners would be more than compensated for their ordeal!
yankel
BH! finally some good, even if its non jews, its still lives
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aha, ubenoigea leyinoneinu?
Achdus
this is to prove that with ACHDUS people could go 2000 feet underground to save a friend.
to LIAR, LIAR
hellooooo, the clean shaven guys are the drilling team. the miner has his back to the camera, u cant SEE his face.
To #5 and #6
The rebbe said every major world event that happens in the world has a connection to Klal Yisroel and is a step towards the final Geula. There are lessons to be learned if one thinks just a little…..
Miriam P.
TO THOSE WHO DID NOT UNDERSTAND THE IMPORT OF WHAT HAPPENED: WE SHOULD LISTEN AND LEARN… IF A GOY CAN HAVE THIS ACHDUS… AND FIND HIS OWN REDEMPTION THROUGH IT… HOW MUCH MORE US… IF WE UNITED AND DISPLAY SUCH ACHDUS… WE WOULD HAVE ALREADY BEEN OUT OF GOLUS!!!
TO THOSE WHO CARED ENOUGH TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE MIRACLE THAT TOOK PLACE… THOUGH IT MAY HAVE HAPPENED TO GOYIM…. KOL HAKAVOD TO YOU! YES… THEY ARE GOYIM… BUT NO LESS HUMAN BEINGS THAN US! IN CREATION… WE ALL COME FROM THE SAME CREATOR, AND SHOULD TREAT EACH OTHER WITH RESPECT AND DIGNITY!!
THEY DID THEIR PART IN TEACHING THE WORLD A LESSON… LET US LEARN FROM THEM AND DO WHAT WE HAVE TO… TO BRING OUR REDEMPTION ABOUT!
MOSHIACH NOW!!!
chaim
For all those who are wondering how the miners were all clean and shaven before coming up…..hello?….if you
followed the story there was food and toiletries and communication devices sent down for the past 5 weeks through a small tubular hole that was drilled before the big rescue hole was drilled. They were sent shavers and toothbrushes, soap , water…so that they could be presentable and clean when greeting their families.
ANON
http://www.chabad.org/blogs…
wtched the scene
to # 1 there was a running stream !
to the above
dear lubavichers, who cares if they are clean shaven or not? the only reason why u brought this up is because im assuming u shave yourself! because seemingly, it seems like thatch what u lookin at.i don’t know who u r i might also be judging based on ur comment that u cut ur beard. but whats forsure is that a chossid of the rebbe, doesn’t shave! he may shave and may consider himself a lubavicher though not sure how mekushar to the rebbe.a lubavicher keeps his beard say what u want, but, that a chossid. besides if u only knew the issur and lets talk the not lubavich way but what hell u get for shavin!!! verses having a beard and lookin like a good rabbi and thats what keeps the families parnassa and so on!!!! moshiach now.
p.s..sry if i sound rude, but the reality is that unfortenatly lubavichers do shave………simply,because they are lacking in great torah knowledge and its beauty!!!!!!!!!!!!!
To Liar Liar
To Liar Liar
I read that b4 the rescue team went down they sent down shavers and shaving cream- so you are the liar
Rachel Cohen
Do you really think Moschiach is any big rush to get down here and obsess over who trimmed their beard? Ok, maybe you do. And maybe you think that unity is more meaningful when it’s based on artificial exclusivity, on dividing the world into Jew and Goy. A Goy’s entire existence is defined by his not being a Jew, and the content of his character is irrelevant. Perhaps you think that G-d wants you to be so dismissive of His creations. Perhaps He wants you to remain blind to the full depths of the beauty of all He has made, blind to the infinite number of worlds inside each person… But you can’t really believe that, can you? Every mitzvah is a wonderful thing, but let’s please not lose sight of the bigger picture if we truly want to bring Moschiach.