33 men

On the morning of August 5, 2010, thirty-three men gathered at the entrance to the San Jose copper mine outside Copiapo, Chili for a twelve-hour shift. When a giant section of the mine collapsed, thirty-three men headed for the safety shelter---a 540-square-foot room stocked with enough food and liquid to last a group of ten men forty-eight hours. For the next seventeen days engineers drilled to get to the safety shelter to see if anyone had survived. But this was only the beginning and for a total of sixty-nine days all thirty-three men lived inside the shelter as rescuers fought to find a way to free them and bring them to the surface.