After months of darkness and half a mile into the Earth, Chilean miners will finally be rescued today. A capsule will be lowered into the shaft and rescue the men one by one. Each trip could take between eleven to sixty minutes. The rescuers have run four test runs to make sure the capsule and the drilled pathway is smooth and safe.
The relatives of the miners have made a tent city heartily named Camp Hope. The relatives are very excited to see their loved ones rise from the Earth. They are waiting with homemade food and champagne. Also 1400 journalists have flooded into the area to broadcast the rescue from the first miner to surface to the last miner to emerge. The rescuers say that to rescue all the men will take about 48 hours. CNN is expected to cover the rescue throughout the night.
The Chilean president, Sebastian Pinera, arrived on site of the mine today as well. He has made the rescue his number one priority, sparing no expense or technological innovation. This has increased his popularity considerably.
What is interesting is the miners are not debating on who would be first to go up the shaft but who shall be the last. The Chilean miners have already reached the record of being trapped underground for the longest period of time but the importance is in the last individual to emerge to hold the actual record.
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