[ti:The World Cheers 33 Miners Rescued in Chile]
[ar:Mario Ritter]
[al: IN THE NEWS]
[by:www.21voa.com]
[00:00.00]This is IN THE NEWS
[00:05.21]in VOA Special English.
[00:08.35](SOUND)
[00:11.03]Rescue workers
[00:12.91]at the San Jose gold
[00:14.66]and copper mine
[00:15.76]in northern Chile had reason
[00:18.04]to sing this week.
[00:19.79]A small hole drilled
[00:21.73]into the earth
[00:22.72]became a passage to freedom
[00:24.81]for thirty-three trapped miners.
[00:27.65]They spent sixty-nine
[00:30.14]days underground.
[00:32.49]"Never have people been
[00:34.83]trapped for so long so deeply,"
[00:37.41]says a doctor at NASA,
[00:39.75]the American space agency,
[00:41.80]which helped in the rescue.
[00:43.99]But the chief medical officer
[00:46.78]for the miners said most are
[00:49.57]in good enough health
[00:50.81]to leave the hospital
[00:52.20]within a day or so.
[00:54.44]The first three were released
[00:56.98]from the hospital Thursday night.
[00:58.97]For much of the day
[01:00.76]the miners relaxed
[01:02.42]with Chilean President Sebastian Pinera.
[01:06.30]The thirty-two Chileans
[01:08.34]and one Bolivian still wore
[01:11.23]special sunglasses
[01:12.68]to protect their eyes.
[01:14.67]A partial mine collapse
[01:17.80]on August fifth trapped them
[01:20.34]more than half a kilometer underground.
[01:23.53]They had to stretch
[01:25.27]a two-day food supply.
[01:27.21]For two weeks no one knew
[01:30.70]if they were alive or dead.
[01:33.49]Later, they received supplies
[01:36.78]and a video link lowered
[01:39.52]through drill holes.
[01:41.16]That link was how Ariel Ticona
[01:44.70]watched his wife give birth
[01:46.84]to their daughter.
[01:48.29]The miners have apparently
[01:50.88]agreed to share the money
[01:52.72]they earn from selling their story.
[01:55.67]They have already received gifts
[01:58.31]of money and travel offers.
[02:00.30]Edison Pena has been invited
[02:03.74]to the New York City Marathon
[02:05.88]and to Graceland,
[02:07.67]the home of Elvis Presley
[02:10.01]in Memphis, Tennessee.
[02:11.85]Mr. Pena described how he
[02:14.78]ran in the mine tunnels
[02:16.92]to ease the stress.
[02:18.52]And he led the miners
[02:20.76]in singing Elvis songs.
[02:23.00]The first miner rescued
[02:26.13]on Wednesday was Florencio Avalos.
[02:29.66]The second was Mario Sepulveda,
[02:32.65]who talked about how
[02:34.79]the experience tested his faith.
[02:37.48]MARIO SEPULVEDA (TRANSLATED): "I was with God
[02:40.96]and I was with the devil,
[02:42.95]they fought me, but God won.
[02:46.76]He took me by my best hand,
[02:49.40]the hand of God."
[02:51.59]The last miner up was Luis Urzua.
[02:56.02]He was the shift leader
[02:57.72]when his crew became trapped.
[02:59.76]Rescuers used a metal cage
[03:03.20]to pull the miners to safety
[03:05.00]in less than twenty-four hours
[03:07.34]-- faster than expected.
[03:09.64]The rescue capsule was a half-meter
[03:13.37]wide and known as the Phoenix.
[03:16.55]The Phoenix is an imaginary bird
[03:19.54]from ancient stories.
[03:21.23]It bursts into flames
[03:23.62]but is continually reborn
[03:26.51]and rises from the ashes.
[03:29.24]Chile's Navy built the capsule
[03:32.78]with advice from mining experts
[03:35.17]and NASA engineers.
[03:37.60]It worked like an elevator,
[03:39.94]traveling up and down
[03:41.78]on a cable through a shaft
[03:43.88]drilled six hundred twenty-two
[03:46.47]meters into the rocks.
[03:48.67]Workers used a cutting bit made
[03:52.60]by a small American company,
[03:54.64]Center Rock.
[03:56.34]The bit was on a drilling rig
[03:58.72]made by Schramm,
[04:00.37]also based in Pennsylvania.
[04:02.51]Millions of people
[04:04.50]around the world
[04:05.54]watched the rescue.
[04:06.94]President Obama said he watched
[04:10.32]the first miner being freed.
[04:12.61]More than one thousand journalists
[04:15.79] traveled to the mine
[04:17.29]in the Atacama Desert
[04:19.03]to report on the rescue.
[04:21.00]They joined family members
[04:23.74]of the miners and rescue crews
[04:26.48]housed in an area
[04:28.03]of tents known as Camp Hope.
[04:31.36](SOUND)
[04:33.70]"Very happy," says this man.
[04:35.79]"Very happy that the boys
[04:38.13]are coming out. That it ends already,
[04:41.26]that their suffering
[04:42.71]and our suffering ends."
[04:45.45]And that's IN THE NEWS
[04:47.83]in VOA Special English.
[04:50.17]I'm Mario Ritter.
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