Reuters
There are many responsible for this incredible victory against all odds, including the USA NASA. But, none are more important than the men and their families which keep hope alive.
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October 13, 2010 11:43 PM
We're live as the final rescuer, Manuel Gonzalez, emerges from the mine. He was the first of six rescuers down and the last out -- in a round trip that lasted just over 24 hours. The live feed from the bottom of the mine showed Gonzalez taking a well-deserved bow before re-mounting the capsule -- and heading for fresh air. Then, moments ago, Chilean Minister of Mines Laurence Golborne tweeted: "Last rescuer up. Now we can say: the rescuers, together with all the country, rescued our 33 miners in 70 days. We did it!"
Driest Place - Atacama Desert, Chile (click here)
Even the Driest Place on Earth has Water
These incredibly dry mountains see an average of less than .004 inches/.01cm of rain per year. Many times this area will go without rainfall at all for years. Some places in the Atacama Desert have not had rainfall for over 400 years....
...It is projected that at one time during the day on Wednesday, (click here) the Chile miners rescue topic was being searched to the point where it was receiving 4 million page views per minute. Early reports are estimated that the overall news topic boosted average daily internet traffic by as much as 20% for Wednesday....
Employees of a small Pennsylvania drilling company too remote to have cable television have found themselves at the center of the world's biggest news story.
...Workers at Center Rock Inc. of Berlin, Pa., (click here) are taking occasional breaks to watch as 33 Chilean miners trapped underground for weeks are brought to the surface through a hole their company helped drill.
Center Rock also pitched in during a similar rescue to free nine miners trapped underground for more than three days in 2002 in the flooded Quecreek Mine not far from Berlin.
Sixty-one-year-old Tom Foy was one of those miners. He has worked for Center Rock for nearly five years and says his "kids won't let me go back" to mining.
A team from Center Rock arrived back from Chile on Tuesday after monitoring the drilling of the rescue shaft.
