Chile Miners Rescued Alive:33 Trapped Underground For 17 Days

Chile Miners Rescued Alive:33 Trapped Underground For 17 Days – 33 trapped Chilean miners have been found alive after 17 days that left everyone on the edge of their seat. They were underground for a total of 17 days in a gold and copper mine in the Northern half of Chile. They sent up a message tied to a drill on Sunday telling those that were taking part in the rescue efforts that they were all alive inside of the mine. Rescuers had been using the drill to bore through to the area where the miners might have been located, but unfortunately it will take months before they are able to get them out of the shelter.

“The 33 of us in the shelter are well,” the message said. The miners were applauded in restaurants around the capital as the news was announced.

“It will take months (to get them out). It will take time, but it doesn’t matter how long it takes to have a happy ending,” President Sebastian Pinera said.

The miners are 4.5 miles inside of a winding mine and about 2,300 feet vertically underground. They are inside of a mine shaft shelter that is about the size of a small apartment unit.

The survivors do have very limited amounts of food, but no further details have been released regarding the kind of supplies that the shelter was stocked with. Relatives embraced one another, happy to hear that the miners were still safe in the shelter. Rescuers will be attempting to send down food, lotions and communications devices to the miners who are trapped while the effort to get them out of the mine continues.

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