Posted on 10/11/2024 7:14:40 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
On the TV news this morning they said that 23 people have been rescued. 1 person died.
I have been in that mine.
That would be a great tour, but I know these people just want to get out.
I wonder what happened that one person died? Was it from the elevator malfunctioning or was it a heart attack from the stress of the situation?
Not for the claustrophobic for sure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI4hzzepEcI
Up on cripple creek…
I mean down at cripple creek…
Been to this mine. They jam pack you into a lift to give you an authentic experience. When we went the guide rode on top of the lift. Guessing it crashed. Great tour, so sad about the accident.
All of the people have been rescued.
There’s a sign on the elevator that reads, Farting Not Allowed in the Elevator Cage.
Not on my bucket list. Then again, I don’t have a bucket list.
So glad they’re out! I remember, as a kid, blindly and willingly following our youth ministers on adventures which should have killed us all. Some of them were cave crawling. Later, as a TV guy, I did production in Colorado mines and caves. Ten years ago, in Mexico, I crawled down a mine hole into a long dirt cave, only three feet high, with spiders, on a treasure hunt reality TV show. I think back to all of that with disbelief as now I get nervous about being in a CT scanner tube! Insane.
Used to go to the Phoenix Mine near Georgetown, CO. You walk through, there’s an elevator but it’s not used for the tour. Large open areas inside, not claustrophobic. You can also pan gold outside. (I imagine they “salt” the creek.) Fun and educational experience. Big “shaker table” inside used to separate ore is neat.
I worked underground in a mine in Arizona where the only access was a vertical shaft with a hoist. The levels were at depths ranging from about 300 feet below surface on down to about 1100 feet (there were deeper levels, but they were flooded). I’d love to take this mine tour if I’m ever in Cripple Creek.
They won’t tell us what happened in any detail.
That means they are expecting and fearing the negligence and wrongful death lawsuits that will be filed.
Thanks! I read that they’re all out safe (save for one) now.
The most wonderful cave I’ve ever visited was Ruby Falls in Chattanooga, TN. The falls are inside of Lookout Mountain. We were on a family trip headed for FL and Sis and I pestered Dad until he gave in and took us there, too. We had a private tour - we hit it just perfectly. And it was pretty magical!
As an adult, you’d have to sedate and hog-tie me to go into a cave, but I sure loved them as a kid.
In 1963 I camped with my Boy Scout troop at Calico, a ghost town near Barstow, Calif. There were a number of mine shafts nearby, dug by silver miners in the 1880s, and we had fun exploring them without a thought of the danger of doing so. I don’t know if the mine shafts are still there.
That’s awesome! Did you ever find anything cool or interesting?
We didn’t find any artifacts—the area had probably been long since picked over. But we had a good time. On the way over, we had lunch at the historic Summit Inn at the top of the Cajon Pass, which was destroyed by a brushfire in 2016.
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