Trapped Chilean miners in good spirits
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August 28, 2010, Saturday
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THE first video released of the 33 men trapped deep in a Chilean copper mine shows them stripped to the waist and appearing thin but healthy, arm-in-arm and singing the national anthem.
Only about five minutes of what is reportedly a 45-minute video was released on Thursday by Television Nacional de Chile via the Chilean government.
The men made the video with a camera sent down through a small emergency shaft drilled to their shelter deep in the San Jose mine.
One man displays the way they have organized the living room-sized shelter where they took refuge after a landslide trapped them on August 5.
"There are a large number of professionals who are going to help in the rescue efforts from down here," the man says.
What the men may not know is that the company that hired them is doing nothing to join them in a rescue.
The near-bankrupt San Esteban company has neither the equipment nor the money to rescue the men.
Chile's state-owned mining company is going to drill an escape tunnel, which will cost about US$1.7 million.
Only about five minutes of what is reportedly a 45-minute video was released on Thursday by Television Nacional de Chile via the Chilean government.
The men made the video with a camera sent down through a small emergency shaft drilled to their shelter deep in the San Jose mine.
One man displays the way they have organized the living room-sized shelter where they took refuge after a landslide trapped them on August 5.
"There are a large number of professionals who are going to help in the rescue efforts from down here," the man says.
What the men may not know is that the company that hired them is doing nothing to join them in a rescue.
The near-bankrupt San Esteban company has neither the equipment nor the money to rescue the men.
Chile's state-owned mining company is going to drill an escape tunnel, which will cost about US$1.7 million.
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