Chile Miners Rescue

[Crankarm]

What was in this mine that was worth extracting, apart from the trapped miners?

 

[Aperitif]

Mods. Could this thread please be merged with "Chilean Miners"?

Bit cheeky Gerry! This thread started in the early hours, when the capsule was bringing the first rescued to the surface etc - the curmudgeons 'downstairs' didn''t kick off until about 10:45 - something like that.
This is for people like Fnarr et moi - to illustrate and congratulate effort and compassion. not to rehash the 'hard news' aspect of the stories that endlessly unfold "How much will they get?" "How many mistresses?" etc - it's just a human thing.

Now I will go and read P&L - for some lightweight stuff

 

[Crankarm]

I bet the lawyers have been made to form an orderly queue outside the triage tent and hospital .

 

[ComedyPilot]

I bet the lawyers have been made to form an orderly queue outside the triage tent and hospital .

I hear Patrick Stevens has been dusting off his passport, and practicing his Spanish?

 

[Crankarm]

So many people to sue plus film, book and merchandising rights/royalties/distribution to be negotiated, not to mention the ensuing marital strife ending with divorce owing to some of the miners' indiscretions being revealed .................

Mining companies and subcontractors to be defended against class or individual's legal actions.

The lawyers must be drooling at the prospect of the sound of "Kerching!" (in Spanish).

Lawyers rubbed their hands together when the BP deep water rig blew up in the Bay of Mexico. I seem to remember eleven employees lost their lives in that disaster. A whole coastline has been covered in oil causing extensive environmental damage and peoples' livelihoods lost. So the rescue of the Chilean miners is a miraculously happy ending to what so easily could have been yet another mining disaster.

 

[Bird Brain]

I didn't really know the best place to post this thread well apart from this place.Hopefully it will continue to go well. The rescue that is.

 

[Maz]

I was in tears when the the little kid was reunited with his dad (the first miner to emerge, I think). It was very moving.

 

[slowmotion]

I didn't really know the best place to post this thread well apart from this place.Hopefully it will continue to go well. The rescue that is.

I very much doubt that 33 Chilean miners will care either...

 

[Crankarm]

I was in tears when the the little kid was reunited with his dad (the first miner to emerge, I think). It was very moving.

Miner Senior is re-united with Miner minor .

 

[newbiebiker]

Chile did great with in rescuing the miner. The 33 miners are all out..very touching!

 

[Fnaar]

Did they remember to get the rescue workers out who went down there?

 

[4F]

What a fantastic effort by the Chileans rescue team

 

[gavintc]

I know this after the event. But, I have been pondering the location of the escape shaft in underground refuge; intentional or a cock up. You can take a view that positioning it on the side wall would reduce the risk of a catastrophic roof collapse, alternatively, you could propose that they nearly missed the refuge.

Overall, it was a great success and it is nice to have a good news story.

 

[Gerry Attrick]

Bit cheeky Gerry! This thread started in the early hours, when the capsule was bringing the first rescued to the surface etc - the curmudgeons 'downstairs' didn''t kick off until about 10:45 - something like that.
This is for people like Fnarr et moi - to illustrate and congratulate effort and compassion. not to rehash the 'hard news' aspect of the stories that endlessly unfold "How much will they get?" "How many mistresses?" etc - it's just a human thing.

Now I will go and read P&L - for some lightweight stuff

 

[Stephenite]

Margaret Thatcher's birthday yesterday and the only ones celebrating were miners!