hurrah! pretty incredible stuff. 69 days, 2,000 feet below. I'd have lost my sanity.
The times I have been in mines, just one hour creeps me out.
But miners are a different breed. They spend 12 hours a day in the mines, not seeing the sun is part of their lives.
What I find terrifying is the first few weeks when nobody knew they were alive. Having to go day by day doubting whether you could be rescued.
I know miners are a tough breed, we still have veterans of the deep mines here from before it all switched over to strip mining. But I can't imagine even men that accustomed to the mines being trapped in the dark for those first weeks, not knowing if it was their tomb....my hat's off to every one of these men. And to the Chileans, they're pros when it comes to mining but this was above and beyond what any nation would be prepared for and they handled it wonderfully.