What happened to… the 33 trapped Chilean miners. Full Menu Search Menu. Close Local your local region National. Search Submit search Quick Search. Comments Close comments menu. Video link. Close X. Click to scroll back to top of the page Back to top. By Erica Vella Global News. Posted December 3, am. Updated May 11, am. View image in full screen. It was his message -- sent to the surface through a drill on August 22 -- that first informed the world the miners were still alive.
Today, he struggles with advanced diabetes that limits his movement. He walks with the aid of crutches. It's not enough to pay his medical bills in a country where health care is largely privatized and out of reach of many working class people. But the government appealed, claiming that 14 of the 33 miners already had lifetime pensions from various sources, because of their age or health. Jimmy Sanchez was the youngest of the Atacama miners, arriving to work at the age of just 19 after dropping out of high school.
I don't think I'll ever forget it," said Sanchez, who also lives in Copiapo. It wasn't my fault I was trapped," said Sanchez, now Five years ago, psychologist Alberto Iturra, who has been helping the miners, confirmed that employers were hesitant about sending the 33 back underground. Bosses "said to themselves that the miners would ask for leave at a moment's notice, stop working or, even worse, not handle the stress," Iturra said.
Sanchez was declared unfit to return to work for mental health reasons. He lives with his wife and two children on his government pension -- in a house where there are 20 people. The charismatic Sepulveda -- who featured in many of the videos from inside the mine seen around the world during the long ordeal -- has fared better than most.
The year-old, who lives in the Santiago area, regularly travels in his capacity as a motivational speaker. Last year, he won a survival reality TV show. Omar Reygadas was one of the most experienced in the group of After the cave-in, the miners -- many of whom barely knew each other -- had to quickly get organized. First up, they had to make a list of all those trapped and then distribute the meager food rations in the safety shelter. November 13, - "The 33" premieres.
Rescue Plans. Plan A and Plan B each required two holes to be drilled - a small hole first and then a wider one about 26 to 28 inches centimeters in diameter. Golborne said the second pass would progress more slowly than the first pass. Plan A involved using a drill placed directly above the shelter where the miners were holed up. Under Plan B, a hole was drilled at a roughly degree angle into an area of the mine shaft that was used as a mechanical workshop.
That distance, engineers estimated, was around 2, feet meters. The drill used in Plan C needed to cut through some 1, feet meters of rock and earth. Plan A drill was a Raise Borer Strata , usually used for drilling ventilation shafts in mines. Plan B drill was a Schramm T, usually used for boring water holes. Plan C drill was a Rig drill, usually used for drilling for oil.
Photos: Chile mine rescue. Relatives stand by as rescuers work to free 33 miners trapped inside the San Jose mine near Copiapo, Chile, on August 6, The mine collapsed a day earlier, and the miners ended up trapped 2, feet underground for more than two months.
See how the rescue operation unfolded. Hide Caption. Miner Daniel Espinoza waits outside the collapsed copper and gold mine to help in the rescue efforts on August 7. Miners carry an effigy of Saint Lorenzo, the patron saint of miners, before a Mass outside the collapsed mine on August Chilean President Sebastian Pinera holds up a plastic bag containing a message from the miners on August Translated from Spanish, it read: "We are OK in the refuge, the The same hole was used to provide the miners with food, supplies and letters.
Drilling machines work in the rescue operation on August Marion Gallardo, the granddaughter of trapped miner Mario Gomez, writes a letter to her grandfather on August Relatives watch a video of the trapped miners on August Chilean television aired footage of the miners, showing them in good spirits and explaining how their underground shelter was set up.
Minister Javier Soto dedicates one of the 33 Bibles that would be sent down to the miners on August On September 8, volunteers install heating and water purification systems at the La Esperanza tent city that sprang up outside the mine as news of the collapse spread. Esperanza means hope in English.
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