Trapped miners in Chile

[VicHockeyFan]

So these guys might be down there for another 4 months.

COPIAPO, Chile, Aug 24 (Reuters) - Engineers prepared on Tuesday to install a big drill to rescue 33 miners trapped for 19 days deep in a Chilean mine, and will send down games to help them cope with a wait that could last until Christmas.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN24265291

I presume somebody is already scripting the movie? When they get the third or fourth hole down to them, somebody ought to shoot down some movie-rights contracts for them all to sign. They could have their money waiting for them when they get topside.

[victorian fan]

^ So who will play the lead?

[VicHockeyFan]

Originally Posted by victorian fan

^ So who will play the lead?

He'll play the lead geotechnical engineer, who although usually had a globe-trotting life scouting out new mine locations in exotic locales, instead chose to go down with the guys when the miners complained of unsafe conditions.



She'll play his sometimes-estranged wife, who after coming to a life-changing realization that they were indeed meant to be a couple, reconciled with him two weeks before the day he went down the shaft. She finds out she is pregnant with their first child (even though doctors told her she was very unlikely to ever conceive) the day after he is trapped.



Bruce plays the sometimes-gruff American, who has to cut through not only political red-tape in order to get the job done, but also deal with a troubled past that haunts him every day of the drill.



Canadian actress Ellen Page (Juno, Inception) plays an Ivy League law school student, who defies her parents (and her well-to-do boyfriend) by leaving school to take a low-paying freelance journalism job in Chile, to cover the rescue for a little-known environmentalist magazine. In doing so, she becomes the bridge between the miners below, and their loved ones above.

[Holden West]

^That's your best idea since your arena sign solar collector.

[Bingo]

Originally Posted by VicHockeyFan

So these guys might be down there for another 4 months.



http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN24265291

I presume somebody is already scripting the movie? When they get the third or fourth hole down to them, somebody ought to shoot down some movie-rights contracts for them all to sign. They could have their money waiting for them when they get topside.

Those drillers at BP can drill a couple of relief shafts in about 100 days, or they could install a blowout preventer and stuff it with golf balls and old tires, or is this a different story.

[Bingo]

Day 66

Original estimates to rescue the trapped miners was put at around 4 months, but the men could be brought to the surface as early as Wednesday.

read more;
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/am...ex.html?hpt=T2

[sebberry]

Originally Posted by Bingo

Day 66

Original estimates to rescue the trapped miners was put at around 4 months, but the men could be brought to the surface as early as Wednesday.

read more;
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/am...ex.html?hpt=T2

Apparantly they are already being offered movie and book deals.

Christ, let them get home to their families first

[victorian fan]

Watch rescue live BBC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-11489439

[Sparky]

^ Thanks for that link.

[Bingo]

Day 68

First rescuer to reach miners in minutes. Watch on CNN.

[Bingo]

The capsule is in the mine for the first time.

[sebberry]

Pretty amazing when you consider how many mine incidents don't end this way.

And I'm looking at the size of that hole.. good thing I wasn't down there or we'd be waiting another month with all the extra rock that would have had to have been drilled out

[Sparky]

^ Don't worry Seb.....a little olive oil....some sausage grease....oh and of course a 3 month fast...we would have you out in no time.

In all seriousness, I have been following this drama daily.....all I want is for these men to rise home to their families.

[Bingo]

After 3 hours 20 minutes 3 miners have been rescued.

Watch on CNN