How The Chilean Miners Survived

How The Chilean Miners Survived
The helmet of Chilean miner Carlos Barrios is seen on display during a press preview for the "Against All Odds" exhibition commemorating the rescue of 33 Chilean miners, Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2011, at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
The helmet of Chilean miner Carlos Barrios is seen on display during a press preview for the "Against All Odds" exhibition commemorating the rescue of 33 Chilean miners, Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2011, at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Two thousand feet belowground, men covered in soot noted a wailing rumble in the distance'the sound of many tons of rock falling in caverns deep inside the mountain. "The mine is weeping," they said to one another.

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