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Relates the experiences of the thirty-three men who endured entrapment beneath thousands of feet of rock for a record-breaking sixty-nine days during the San Jose mine collapse outside of Copiapo, Chile, in August 2010.

Provides a detailed account of rescue efforts to save thirty-three miners, who got trapped in a copper-gold mine in San Jose, Chile, examining the psychological, physical, and environmental factors influencing the course of the rescue, and describing the efforts of experts from around the world--drillers, astronauts, submarine specialists, and others--came together in response to the crisis.

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.

Details the rescue of thirty-three miners in a mine in the Atacama Desert in Chile, describing how they were trapped, how they survived, the plans to save them, and more.

Relates the experiences of thirty-three Chilean miners who were trapped two thousand feet below the surface of the earth in August 2010.