Here’s some great news from a disaster site:<\/p>\n
Rescue workers on Monday reinforced a small drill hole to serve as an umbilical cord to 33 miners found alive 17 days after a cave-in in Chile’s far north and say it will take months to dig them out.<\/p>\n
In what relatives called a miracle, the miners on Sunday tied a note to a perforation drill that had bored a shaft the circumference of a grapefruit to the refuge where they are sheltered, 2,300 feet (700 meters) vertically underground.<\/p>\n
[…]<\/p>\n
Rescue workers now plan to use the bore hole to send plastic tubes containing glucose, hydration gels and food down to the miners to keep them alive while they dig a new shaft to extract them — which could take up to four months.<\/p>\n
“The wait is very different now,” said Elias Barros, 57, whose brother is among those trapped. “It is a wait free of anguish. This isn’t over but we are much more hopeful it will end happily.”<\/p>\n
Source:<\/i> Chile secures lifeline to trapped miners<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
May they all get out alive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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