The third miner emerges from the Quecreek mine as rescue workers on Sunday, July 28, 2002, began pulling nine miners one-by-one from the watery, 240-foot-deep shaft where they had been trapped for three days, a jubilant reward for an effort that had been fraught with one gut-wrenching setback after another.(AP Photo/Guy Wathen, POOL)
One of 9 trapped miners at the Quecreek Mine is carried on a stretcher in Somerset, Pennsylvania, July 28, 2002. Despite hunger, fatigue and dangerously cold temperatures, rescuers found all nine men alive and in good condition late on Saturday. REUTERS/POOL-Steve Helber