33 pit workers blocked underground for 3 months. They can’t escape, they don’t see the daylight, they have to survive together in an hostile place. It sounds like a scientific experience, a thriller or a real TV show? It isn’t. It’s just what happened to Mario Sepulveda Espina, Luiz Urzua Iris barren, Mario Gomez Heredia and their 30 colleagues on the 22nd august 2010, in the north of Chili.
Last august, after the fall of many rocks in the coal mine where they were working, 33 chilian pit workers remained blocked together, without any possibility to go out. At this moment, they didn’t know if they had any chance to stay alive, and nobody on the surface were able to say if they were really alive.
700 meters under earth, they couldn’t be heard or seen, and the only solution for the technical team was to send a sonde and check their estate. Whereas the mines minister Laurence Golborne had announced that there was a few chances to find them alive, The message the pit workers then sent reassured the families, the company, the government, the medias and a great part of the country which got involved in this unexpected story:
“We are fine, all of the 33, in the refuge.”
These simple words were the beginning of a real saga (epic) the Medias and people all around the world got passionate for.
