Considering all phases of the rescue (psychiatry, physical health consideration, drilling, the cage, etc), it really was a wonderful multi-national effort...

>I bet there were no complaints about the rescue attire.
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>The picture says it all --
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>http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/10/13/workers-begin-to-rescue-trapped-chilean-miners/?hpt=T1&iref=BN1
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>>BTW, what I find interesting (apart from the amazing job they have done in keeping them physically and mentally healthy during this ordeal) is the clothing they have to wear for the ride up: a corset, surgery hose, sweaters, etc to keep their blood pressure and temperature up while they ascend...
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>>>http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/10/12/workers-begin-to-rescue-trapped-chilean-miners/?hpt=T1&iref=BN1
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>>>It looks like they are about to be rescued, although there are still dangers.
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>>>It's funny that we can endure all kinds of bad news yet personal disasters of this type get us every time. When I lived in Dallas in the late 1980s there was a little girl who fell in a hole and had the entire nation transfixed for two or three days. (Jessica something. She was rescued).
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>>>What boggles my mind is that they have been trapped in that mine for over two months and are still alive.