Yeah, well the longer you stay underground, the more likely you are to turn into a Morlock- not that that's a bad thing.
Posted on 10/09/2010 6:22:39 PM PDT by skully
Before 33 trapped Chilean miners can begin their passage to the outside world, still more people will join them down below to make their journey as smooth as it can be.
These men – an elite group of three paramedics with the Chilean navy's special forces and 13 rescue experts with the state-owned mining company Codelco – will work in shifts during the 48 hours it could take to evaluate the men and strap them into the escape capsule for their 15-20 minute ride to the surface.
And the paramedics will be empowered to change a list, already prepared, that suggests the order of the miners' rescue.
(Excerpt) Read more at theglobeandmail.com ...
The first one up should be someone capable of handling a frightening setback in the narrow shaft, and describing how the next ones up might avoid problems, Cmdr. Navarro said....
“The most able miners will leave first – those who can better describe to the next how they might avoid the potential problems that the capsule might encounter. Then those with illnesses or who suffer from one problem or another. And finally the last to surface are the strongest physically or in terms of their character.”
Last up will be those considered most capable of handling the anxiety of being left behind as their comrades disappear one by one.
Actually, I’d probably be more than happy to wait.
I don’t think it should be made real complicated. They all know each other so they know who the family men are most likely. After the injured are out, families have the most to lose by their miner not returning home in case, God forbid, something else goes wrong. Bad system for the single guys, but somebody’s got to be last.
I think we should leave it up to the miners and the medical teams on site. I am sure they have had plenty of time to think about this themselves.
I would also like to hear from miners or near relatives of miners. Some jobs just form stronger kinship among workers. The military is one that we are the most familiar with. I am sure some of these miners would still risk there life to the other miners.
And the paramedics will be empowered to change a list, already prepared,...
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It seems the miners have submitted and agreed upon their own list, just as it should be.
Rock-Paper-Scissors tournament. Use the 101-version.
I believe they will do it real simple,none of that PC crap going on in Chile....
They have spent a long time together talking about life and all that stuff..I would guess they will all be millionaires now,movies ,books and TV appearances....
Women first!
In looking at post 21, it seems that they’ve made it kind of complicated and subjective, imo. I think they should just go with the system I came up with. :~D lol
Yeah i just read it ,that is getting complicated...
Lets hope it all goes well,they seem to have managed fine up to now...
Lock me in a room with 30 guys for a month or two and blood will be spilled (not mine)..
Men are men. The 33 figured this out weeks ago. Listen to them.
I figure that the book & movie rights are well worth being the last one out.
What is another day or so after all this time?
Of course, the guy with a wife & mistress may just see if he can get cable TV & pizza delivery and stay down there.
They could have a whole new “reality” TV series over which one of the women goes to get him first! (as in “I’m gonna GET you for this!”)
In inverse order to a ranking of the amount of flatulence emitted.
is the bends an issue is all of this?
I think the one who might want to be last, is the one who realized that both his wife and his mistress were up there, when this story first broke, and contact with the miners was made.
Some ‘splaining awaits him!!
I’d first send up anyone in ill health or has special medical needs then bring the rest up oldest to youngest on the assumption that the younger should be in the best health.
I was in a Gold mine in South Africa and down 12,500 feet checking some of equipment, we made rise drills. Walking back out the was a great rumble and the engineers I was with hit the deck. There had been a rock explosion(its when rock is under tremendous pressure and blows out the walls of a tunnel) a couple of layers above which killed a bunch and injured another 30.
The used the main lift to take care of the dead and injured so we waited 6 hours or so and went up the man lift. It was a tube similar to the one they are using and had two levels. That 2 mile haul to the surface took 2.5 hurs, and the cage banged against the sides all the way up. Also it was around 120 degrees temp.
I have a sense of what they will go through
Anyone who is still larger than 26 inches across waits until the end...
Zeta wouldn't be last if my daughter's family were involved!
ML/NJ (in Israel)
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