page_title: Rescue plans for 2010 Copiapó mining accident
section_title: Rescue plans
hierarchical_section_title: Rescue plans for 2010 Copiapó mining accident / Rescue plans
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: "Das Wunder von Lengede", die Rettung
context_page_description: The 2010 Copiapó mining accident began as a cave-in on 5 August 2010 at the San José copper-gold mine in the Atacama Desert near Copiapó, Chile. The accident left 33 men trapped 700 meters below ground who survived underground for a record 69 days. All 33 men were rescued and brought to the surface on 13 October 2010 over a period of almost 24 hours. After the last trapped miner was winched to the surface, the rescue workers still underground held up a sign before the camera stating "Misión cumplida Chile" to the estimated more than 1 billion people watching the rescue on live television around the world.
  The San José Mine is about 45 kilometers north of Copiapó, in northern Chile. The miners were trapped approximately 5 kilometers from the mine entrance. The mine had a history of instability that had led to previous accidents, including one death.
  The retrieval of the first miner, Florencio Ávalos, began on Tuesday, 12 October at 23:55 CLDT, with the rescue capsule reaching the surface 16 minutes later. Less than 24 hours later, at 21:55 CLDT on 13 October, all 33 miners had been rescued, almost all in good medical condition, and expected to recover fully.
context_section_description: The rescue crews planned to raise the miners one by one with pods. "The mine is old and there is concern of further collapses,” Murray & Roberts Cementation managing director Henry Laas said.  “The rescue methodology therefore has to be carefully designed and implemented.”
caption: Miner rescued with a Dahlbusch Bomb, the 1963 predecessor of the Fénix, Wunder von Lengede, artist depiction (1963) by Helmuth Ellgaard
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