Inspired by Chile
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| Dinah S. Ventura |
In what is now billed as “the longest underground entrapment in human history” (which they say could make it to the Guinness World Records), 33 miners came out alive and well in a serious mining mishap in Chile recently.
Just like that time in August when a number of tourists’ lives were at stake right here in Manila as our local authorities struggled to deal with the situation right before the world’s judgmental eyes, Chilean authorities took on the challenge and emerged victorious.
The world applauded what online stories cite as a “meticulously planned rescue operation” where six rescuers had all 33 men “safely above ground in 22 hours, 37 minutes” since it began. “One after another, the miners climbed into a missile-like steel capsule barely wider than a man’s shoulders and took a 15-minute journey through 2,000 feet of rock to the surface,” goes an article in msnbc.msn.com.
Waiting at the end of the miners’ ordeal was Chile’s President Sebastian Piñera along with the miners’ families and an eager crowd..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20101018com7.html
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