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[den]

On April 25 a small earthquake in north Tasmania caused a rockfall that killed one miner and trapped two. Five days later a thermal camrea discovered the two miners, trapped in a safety cage under tons of rock. They'd survived on a cerial bar and by licking water from rocks.

This morning the pair were freed, and they walked from the mine to the ambulance, pausing only to change their tags to show they were going off-shift. Nice one, Brant Webb and Todd Russell.

Comments

[oceansedge.livejournal.com]

Wow, here I thought the rescuers had managed to at least get some food and water into them.

That's truely amazing and a very VERY happy ending.

[elynne.livejournal.com]

That is amazingly awesome. :D And changing their tags as they left... that's just super-classy. :D

[copperwolf.livejournal.com]

w00t! The last thing I heard about those two is that rescuers were blocked from them by three feet of very tough rock.

[torakiyoshi.livejournal.com]

Austrailians, I am learning, are nothing if not resillient. After all, y'all's civilization was started by people who were sent away because they were not wanted, and met people who lived on a continent who didn't want either group on it, and produced animals and environments to prove it.

(On the other hand, said continent seems to be enamoured of European frogs...)

Have the best

-=TK

Hard rock café

[frith]

I heard that they ran out the cage once the rock was cleared. But what was that rock made of anyway? "Crowbar swung with full force didn't scratch the rock blocking the way" was what I heard.

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

*salute of respect*

[lizardling.livejournal.com]

That made the papers up here. Tough 'uns.

[jim-lane.livejournal.com]

After so many mining-related tragedies of late, it's GOOD seeing some guys surviving one for a change. Sad that there was still one fatality, but at least it wasn't all three dead---

[quen-elf.livejournal.com]

The clocking out part is officially awesome. 'Nuff respect! :>

[annvole.livejournal.com]

That story was on the radio news here do much that I thought it happened in Canada.