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I thought Sky News criticising the rescue teams for pandering to the world media - all whilst maintaining constant coverage feeds - absurdly hypocritical. "I think this feed from the mine we are showing you is impinging on the miners privacy". Well turn the sodding thing off then...
Wierdly the number 33 is really significant in this whole drama. There were 33 miners trapped. They were first located on august 22nd, which is the 33rd week of the year. The rescue shaft was finally completed 33 days after they started drilling. And today, the day of rescue, is 13/10/10. Add those numbers up and you get.....

Hopefully, out of this, people will start thinking a bit more about all the thousands of miners around the world and the kind of conditions they have to work in. This kind of event can be prevented


"Vincelot Tobar, who was in charge of risk prevention for San Esteban, claimed its bosses always put production before safety. He resigned in 2009 ? he said out of exasperation at the company's failure to institute safety recommendations. The company claims he was to blame for two of the deaths.


"They never carried out the most fundamental adjustments needed to avoid disasters like what we're seeing today," he said. "They always pushed on production. I was the only risk assessor, without a computer, secretary or even a phone."

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whole article

I'd be interested to read more about the alleged dispute / fall-out between the majority of the miners and a certain 5 other miners who were (I think) temporary or contracted/sub-contracted. It was seemingly a significant rift (I mean they were living seperately in the mine by choice) and was hushed-up a bit in the interests of presenting a united front.

I read that they took a collective oath to not discuss this when back on the surface, in favour of securing the best deal for the group in respect of book, publicity and sponsorship deals.

Perhaps a little like the group split which occurred between the survivors of the Andes air crash in the 1970s..

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