{"id":23310,"date":"2010-10-13T23:30:06","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T21:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=23310"},"modified":"2014-01-05T21:02:34","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T19:02:34","slug":"rescue-effort-reaches-miners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/10\/13\/rescue-effort-reaches-miners\/","title":{"rendered":"Rescue Effort Reaches Miners"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><strong>By MATT MOFFETT, CAROLINA PICA and ANTHONY ESPOSITO<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23322\" title=\"Getty Images Claudio Yanez, 34 years old, was taken away on a stretcher after becoming the eighth miner rescued Wednesday at the San Jose mine near Copiapo, Chile.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Chile_miners.jpg\" alt=\"Getty Images Claudio Yanez, 34 years old, was taken away on a stretcher after becoming the eighth miner rescued Wednesday at the San Jose mine near Copiapo, Chile.\" width=\"571\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Chile_miners.jpg 571w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Chile_miners-300x119.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 571px) 100vw, 571px\" \/><\/em><\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>SAN JOS\u00c9 MINE, Chile\u2014Miners that had been  trapped deep underground for 69 days were pulled to the rescue one by  one Wednesday in a process that went faster than expected and kept  people around the world transfixed.<\/p>\n<p>The miners rose to the surface in a red, white and blue rescue  capsule dubbed &#8220;the Phoenix.&#8221; By Wednesday afternoon, 24 of the 33  miners were above ground.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h3>Latest Updates<\/h3>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/si.wsj.net\/public\/resources\/images\/OB-KK880_1013ch_A_20101012215627.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"[1013chile03]\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" width=\"76\" height=\"76\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Reporters Carolina Pica,  Anthony Esposito and Matt Moffett are providing updates in real time of  the rescue of the 33 trapped miners. <strong> Go to the live blog. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Plus:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <a> <strong>Live Video:<\/strong> Watch the Miners&#8217; Rescue<\/a><\/li>\n<li> <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/i33-SB10001424052748703673604575549372202025534\"> <strong>Video:<\/strong> Chilean Miner Rescue Continues<\/span><\/li>\n<li> <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704147804575456043404469642.html\"> <strong> <\/strong> Who Are the Miners?<\/span> | <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703440004575548931107918958.html\"> <strong>Latest Photos<\/strong> <\/span><\/li>\n<li> <strong> <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703794104575546572586155994.html\">Once Out, Miners Face Hospital Stay<\/span> <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h3>Chile Mine Rescue in the News<\/h3>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703673604575549372202025534.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_LEFTTopStories#\">View Slideshow<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703673604575549372202025534.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_LEFTTopStories#\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s.wsj.net\/public\/resources\/images\/OB-KL030_1013ne_D_20101013095543.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"[SB10001424052748703673604575549940242265812]\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" width=\"262\" height=\"174\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>As they emerged,  websites of Chilean newspapers were keeping a running score, almost like  of a sporting event. &#8220;Things have gone extraordinarily well up to now,&#8221;  said Health Minister Jaime Ma\u00f1alich.<\/p>\n<p>President Sebasti\u00e1n Pi\u00f1era said the rescue could wrap up faster than  anticipated. At the current pace of a miner surfacing every 40 minutes,  the operation could end Wednesday evening, he said in a news conference,  rather than on Thursday as originally expected.<\/p>\n<p>Florencio \u00c1valos, a 31-year-old father of two, was the first to be  rescued after having endured longer underground than any mine accident  survivors to date.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. \u00c1valos emerged above ground just after midnight on Wednesday  Chile time as rescuers cheered. He was greeted by family members and  government officials as he made his way into a triage area where he  would undergo an initial checkup.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div id=\"articlevideo_2\">\n<div><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703673604575549372202025534.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_LEFTTopStories#\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/m.wsj.net\/video\/20101013\/101310hubpm\/101310hubpm_512x288.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"272\" height=\"152\" \/> <\/span><\/div>\n<p>With a majority of the Chile miners now pulled  safely out of the ground, the rescue effort is expected to conclude  tonight ahead of schedule according to Carolina Pica, who has the latest  from Chile. Plus, the U.S. brokers Afghan-Taliban contact.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Mario  Sep\u00falveda, the chatty &#8220;presenter&#8221; who acted as host for video  recordings the miners had made underground, was the second miner brought  to the surface.<\/p>\n<p>After emerging from the capsule, Mr. Sep\u00falveda, gave a bear hug to  all of the dignitaries present, including Mr. Pi\u00f1era and the first lady.  Mr. Sep\u00falveda grabbed stones collected from the mine&#8217;s belly and handed  them out with a big smile to a laughing Mr. Pi\u00f1era and Mining Minister  Laurence Golborne.<\/p>\n<p>The oldest trapped miner was brought out early Wednesday. Mario G\u00f3mez, 63, who suffers from the lung disease silicosis, dropped to his knees in gratitude after surfacing.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Ma\u00f1alich, the health minister, told reporters that bringing Mr.  G\u00f3mez back to the surface had posed challenges. He was outfitted with a  special face mask to ensure that he received enough oxygen.<\/p>\n<p>Bolivian President Evo Morales arrived at the Copiap\u00f3 airport in  northern Chile early Wednesday morning to meet with his countryman,  Carlos Mamani. Mr. Mamani, the only non-Chilean among the trapped  miners, was the fourth miner rescued.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. President Barack Obama  said the resolve of Chilean people has inspired the world, the  Associated Press reported. Mr. Obama, who watched some of the rescue  operations on television, said the rescue is a tribute to their  determination, and that of the Chilean government and its people. He  also praised American companies that played a role in the rescue.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h3>Miners Make Their Way Out<\/h3>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703673604575549372202025534.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_LEFTTopStories#\">View Slideshow<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703673604575549372202025534.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_LEFTTopStories#\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s.wsj.net\/public\/resources\/images\/OB-KK938_1013ch_D_20101013043038.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"[SB10001424052748703440004575548931107918958]\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" width=\"262\" height=\"174\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><cite>Hugo Infante\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/cite>Chilean miner Mario Sepulveda celebrated after been brought to the surface Wednesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Before the emergence of  Mr. \u00c1valos, a rescuer worker, Manuel Gonz\u00e1lez, had ridden down into the  bottom of the mine. Spectral images from a camera showed him embracing  the miners. It was the first direct contact they had had with another  person since the Aug. 5 cave-in. Mr. Pi\u00f1era told Mr. Gonzalez before his  departure, &#8220;may God be with you, the Chilean people are with you. Bring  back the miners with you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And so he brought back Mr. Avalos. Earlier, rescuers lowered the  unmanned 14-foot capsule some 200 feet, while engineers made last-minute  adjustments to systems to enable communication between the miners and  the surface during their trips. On a second unmanned test run, rescuers  descended the capsule the full length of the shaft.<\/p>\n<p>The government had previously revealed the order in which the men  will be extracted from the mine, where they have already endured longer  than any previous mine accident survivors. The first men were chosen  because they were thought to have the physical and mental attributes to  work out any bugs that might emerge in the capsule.<\/p>\n<p>At Camp Hope, the sprawling tent city the miners&#8217; relatives  established after the Aug. 5 cave-in, family members anxiously counted  the minutes for the rescue to begin its final phase.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h3>Chile&#8217;s Efforts to Rescue Miners<\/h3>\n<p>See key dates<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703673604575549372202025534.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_LEFTTopStories#\">View Interactive<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703673604575549372202025534.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_LEFTTopStories#\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s.wsj.net\/public\/resources\/images\/OB-KJ333_chilec_D_20101007090304.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" width=\"262\" height=\"174\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3>The Miners<\/h3>\n<p>See the 33 men trapped underground.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703673604575549372202025534.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_LEFTTopStories#\">View Interactive<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703673604575549372202025534.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_LEFTTopStories#\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s.wsj.net\/public\/resources\/images\/OB-KJ334_chilem_D_20101007090406.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" width=\"262\" height=\"174\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;My heart is beating  fast and it feels like it&#8217;s about to explode,&#8221; said Priscilla \u00c1valos,  who has been traveling to the mine every weekend to be closer to her  brothers Renan and Florencio \u00c1valos.<\/p>\n<p>Fabiola Acu\u00f1a, wife of miner Claudio Acu\u00f1a, was digesting the news  that her husband had drawn No. 26 in the miner extraction lottery. &#8220;The  wait will even be longer,&#8221; she sighed. Health Minister Jaime Ma\u00f1alich  said that several miners had offered to be the last man out of the mine,  but that distinction would fall to the shift foreman, Luis Urz\u00faa, whose  leadership skills have been widely praised.<\/p>\n<p>Down below, the miners made final preparations of their own.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The mountain began to creak in the morning, but in the afternoon it  stopped creaking,&#8221; miner Dario Segovia wrote in a letter his brother  provided to the Santiago newspaper La Tercera Tuesday. &#8220;We prayed. All  of us are uneasy about the size of the rocks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The operation bears risks. After a drill finished boring a  28-inch-wide hole into the chamber where the miners are located early  Saturday, engineers decided to install steel casing in only the top 315  feet of the 2,050-foot shaft. They are counting on the rest of the hole  being smooth and sound enough to serve as a safe conduit for escape.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h3>Journal Community<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703673604575549372202025534.html?mod=WSJ_hps_LEFTTopStories#articleTabs%3Dcomments%26commentId%3D1661946\">discuss<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\u201c                    <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703673604575549372202025534.html?mod=WSJ_hps_LEFTTopStories#articleTabs%3Dcomments%26commentId%3D1661946\">I&#8217;d say &#8216;God bless the miners.&#8217; But I think he already did.<\/span> \u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><cite>\u2014Travis Gorlieski<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;If  a fragment of rock was to wedge the capsule to the wall of the hole,  the [miners] would have their work ahead of them to free the capsule,&#8221;  said Louis King, managing director of Australian Mine Rescue  Consultants, which isn&#8217;t involved in the rescue effort. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think  it is time to celebrate just yet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A spirit of solidarity has bloomed in the Atacama Desert, the barren  wasteland where the mine is located, since the cave-in. Volunteers from  nearby towns came to cook and baby-sit for the families of miners who  were camping above the mine. Local mining companies brought drills to  San Jose and began sending probes deep into the earth to look for the  chamber where the men were holed up\u2014or find their corpses.<\/p>\n<p>A probe made contact with the miners 17 days after the cave-in, when  the miners were down to the last two cans of the tuna that had sustained  them through the ordeal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Life is hard here, there are earthquakes and accidents,&#8221; said  Macarena Valdes, a 30-year-old topographer who helped direct the  positioning of the drills in the rescue effort &#8220;People have to work  together.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After the miners were found, their cause ceased to be simply Chilean as the drama was followed around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Schoolchildren in St. Paul, Minn., and Fredricktown, Pa., sent letters of support to the miners&#8217; families. Pearl Jam front man Eddie Vedder celebrated them on his Twitter account: &#8220;Viva chile! 33 miners are alive!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Town leaders and industrialists from Nice, France, shipped half a ton  of protein bars to the mine, thinking the men might need nourishment.<\/p>\n<p>English soccer legend Bobby Charlton, himself the son of a miner,  invited the miners on an all-expenses paid trip to see the Manchester  United Football Club play. A website collected thousands of messages of  support from throughout the Spanish-speaking world.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Miners are working-class heroes in the best of times, but in the  worst of times everyone can relate to taking a job where there are high  risks but really no choice,&#8221; said Harley Shaiken, a specialist on Latin  America and labor at the University of California, Berkeley.<\/p>\n<p>The miners were emerging looking healthier than many had expected and  even clean-shaven, and at least one, Mr. Sep\u00falveda, the second to taste  freedom, bounded out and thrust a fist in the air in the style of a  prizefighter.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Sep\u00falveda&#8217;s performance exiting from the shaft appeared to  confirm what many Chileans thought when they saw his engaging  performances in videos sent up from below\u2014 that he could have a future  as a TV personality.<\/p>\n<p>But he tried to quash the idea as he spoke to viewers of Chile&#8217;s  state television channel while sitting with his wife and children  shortly after his rescue.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The only thing I&#8217;ll ask of you is that you don&#8217;t treat me as an  artist or a journalist, but as a miner,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I was born a miner  and I&#8217;ll die a miner.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Write to <\/strong> Matt Moffett at matthew.moffett@wsj.com<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div id=\"articleThumbnail_6\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><a>View Full Image<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/si.wsj.net\/public\/resources\/images\/OB-KK892_ChileB_DV_20101012224924.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"ChileB_1013jpg\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" width=\"262\" height=\"394\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"articleImage_6\">\n<div>\n<div><a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/si.wsj.net\/img\/BTN_insetClose.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"ChileB_1013jpg\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" width=\"19\" height=\"19\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/si.wsj.net\/public\/resources\/images\/OB-KK892_ChileB_G_20101012224924.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"ChileB_1013jpg\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" width=\"264\" height=\"1932\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Write to <\/strong> Matt Moffett at matthew.moffett@wsj.com<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h3>More on the Chilean Miner Rescue<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li> <strong> <a>Live Video of the Miners&#8217; Rescue<\/a> <\/strong><\/li>\n<li>  <strong>Live Blog: <\/strong>Rescue of the Miners<\/li>\n<li> <strong> <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703794104575546572586155994.html\">Once Out, Miners Face Hospital Stay<\/span> <\/strong><\/li>\n<li> <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/i41-SB10001424052748703673604575549372202025534\"> <strong>PM Report:<\/strong> Mine Rescue to Wrap Up Tonight<\/span><\/li>\n<li> <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703673604575549372202025534.html\">PM Report: Mine Rescue to Wrap Up Tonight<\/span><\/li>\n<li> <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/i43-SB10001424052748703673604575549372202025534\"> <strong>Video:<\/strong> Chilean Miner Rescue Continues<\/span><\/li>\n<li>  <strong>Topics:<\/strong> San Jose Mine<\/li>\n<li> <strong> <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704657304575540272121241804.html\">Writing Home, &#8216;New&#8217; Miners Emerge <\/span> <\/strong>(10\/9\/2010)<\/li>\n<li> <strong> <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704689804575536490309185222.html\">Chile Miners Work Out Before Rescue <\/span> <\/strong>(10\/7\/2010)<\/li>\n<li> <strong> <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704116004575522343755639692.html\">Inventions Ease the Plight of Trapped Miners<\/span> <\/strong> (9\/30\/2010)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><input id=\"gwProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/> <input id=\"jsProxy\" onclick=\"if(typeof(jsCall)=='function'){jsCall();}else{setTimeout('jsCall()',500);}\" type=\"hidden\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By MATT MOFFETT, CAROLINA PICA and ANTHONY ESPOSITO SAN JOS\u00c9 MINE, Chile\u2014Miners that had been trapped deep underground for 69 days were pulled to the rescue one by one Wednesday in a process that went faster than expected and kept people around the world transfixed. 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