Posted on 10/12/2010 3:22:27 PM PDT by Bad~Rodeo
Things upside might slow down a bit as it gets dark - but probably not much.
These guys really got their game on!!
“Nothing now compels them to go to a new one, especially when this one is working as well as it is.
Don’t want to bring in untested equipment at this point.
“
I imagine they all would want to be “the last man out”. If the guys upstairs aren’t adamant about who it should be, I would guess they’d let the 5 rescuers draw straws or something.
Descent of empty capsule took ten minutes
There are 6 rescue workers. It was said they would come out in the order they arrived. 1st in, 1st out for the rescuers. They had five but in the afternoon decided to send a sixth down so some of the others could rest.
3 minutes to load and ascent begins
She is a cutie!
Franklin Lobos Ramirez next up, age 53. Former Chilean premier league footballer. Working at mine to put 2 daughters through university.
I guess “Chile” doesn’t mean just hot pepper, eh?
;-)
That’s his daughter waiting for him......ooops, three minute siren, he’ll be on the surface in three minutes!
This has to be his daughter unless ol’ Franklin is quite the Cassanova.
Subtitles said “Hija” so I guess that means daughter.
9 minutes 45 seconds on that ascent - same as previous. Total cycle time: 36 minutes 20 seconds
His first words... “Graci, graci!!”
(thank you!!)
Yes, she hollered I love you papa before they opened the door.
He’s one of the healthiest looking ones out so far.
And he ain’t letting go of that soccer ball no matter what!!
When he retired, Lobos began working as a taxi driver, but by 2005 money had grown tight, and, with two daughters to put through university, this footballing hero had little choice but to take a job underground.
As a miner, Lobos, 53, is paid about 700,000 Chilean pesos a month (£915) – around a quarter of what he was earning as a first-division footballer. “As a player, you didn’t have to pay for anything,” Lobos once said in an interview with the Cobresal fan club. “You just played football and represented the miners.”
The change in working conditions was dramatic. In his first year as a miner, Lobos was caught inside La Carola mine when a fire broke out. The exit was blocked and for a full day, Lobos was trapped inside, barely able to breathe as smoke and fumes filled the mine shaft. “Now I know what it means to fill your lungs with dirt and smoke to earn the cash to watch the [Cobresal] team play,” he later said.
Next up, Richard Villarroel age 23, worked at the mine 2 years. His partner is eight months pregnant. Last heard she may not go to the rescue. I expect it depends on when this bio was written.
This is so well organized, from the time they step into the capsule til the time they get on the stretcher, everything is coordinated - they’ve got the tag on their chest which probably has their and perhaps some medical information, before they step out of the capsule it looks like their pulse is taken, the straps come off, they greet their family and the officials and then off they go on the stretcher - good job being done by all involved - they also have a 3 minute siren which goes off to alert the people on the surface that the capsule is very near, before pulling the capsule out they call down to the guy so his family can hear his voice - good stuff all the way around!
Has anyone else noticed that the children at the site are not afraid of meeting people as kids in the States.
Some factory in North Korea is probably already mas producing Chilean flags signed by the miners!
Coming to an infomercial near you soon!
Just $9.95, and they’ll toss in a flagpole!
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