The Reuters information service reports that the Chilean rescuers raised five out of thirty-three miners concluded in the ground due to collapse at the San Jose mine.
The operation to save the Chilean miners, who spent sixty -nine days underground, began today, on October thirteenth at about six in the morning Moscow time. According to experts, she will take at least thirty -six hours.
Recall that the lifting of miners to the surface is carried out using a special capsule, which contains only one person. The total path length is six hundred twenty -five meters. Their relatives meet on the surface of the miners. Their rise to the surface on the air is observed by television channels of different countries.
Reuters also reports that one of the already raised miners took with them a bag with pieces of breed and stones as a souvenir as a souvenir as a souvenir.
Recall that thirty-three miners were walled up underground because of the fifth of August February at the collapse of the breed. At first they were in full isolation, and only after seventeen days, the rescuers managed to find miners. Video communications were installed with miners underground, as well as the supply of water and medication water was established. In addition, doctors constantly watched their physical and psychological state.
According to experts, the estimated period of the rescue operation should have been compiled at least four months — t.e. They promised to raise miners to the surface no earlier than the end of December. Nevertheless, rescue work was carried out faster than expected, so by the ninth of October the leadership of the operation announced the end of the drilling of the Shurf, according to which the miners were raised to the surface at this time.
