Mine Movies

 Wangjialing mine to be made into a movie, tribute films, called Here is the Chinese translation published in Thursday, January 25, 1:30, Samosaite County, Pennsylvania, farmer Bill. Arnold and his wife were barking awakened from a dream. He looked out the window and saw two big trucks are parked in Next to his farm, surrounded by a group of people flashlight. He rushed downstairs to take the gun, but found that it is headed by engineer Sean neighbors. Ice roots and Randy. Mercer, both of whom looked terrified look.
Ice Root told him, just near the Quebec River coal mine flooding occurred in the sudden big accident, 9 were missing. If they are still alive, some trapped in the ground somewhere. last seen in their final location is the entrance from the coal mine 1 mile, which is about 240 feet under the Arnold farm the place. only to find they are drilling tap. So here are two engineers came to survey the drilling position. They say this may have caused some damage to the industry Arnold . br> 3:15, the first drilling machine began digging, it is only 6.5 inches in diameter drill bit, but it can work fast, because time is everything. dawn hours, 6 acres of the ranch house Arnold has become vocal emergency rescue noisy places. heavy with tons of large equipment arrived one after another. drilling machines, excavators, cranes, compressors hh other nearby coal mines workers also came to help. but they really know, mine is little good outcome, except this time it is difficult.
forgotten line of business is located in Allegheny County in the foothills of
Samosaite under mountains dotted with beautiful farms and forest clearing. it is in the Appalachian veins in the eastern part of Asia, over 150 years of coal mining history. to the 60s of last century, about half the population here in the vicinity of the mine or mining support from the steel factory.
With the collapse of the steel economy, Pennsylvania state mining company owners began to power industry restructuring. mining development of new technology makes the mining industry has gradually become non-labor-intensive industries. In this way, although half of 1999, mine owners declared closed down the coal mines of Pennsylvania, or year by year increased steadily. By 1999, 8 million people all Samosaite County only 282 people in underground mining work. most of the mining industry are small businesses, all of electrification. locals are mainly engaged in tourism and manufacturing, has become by miners forgotten line of business.
At the same time the link between local miners growing. most of them middle-aged man, worked 20 years in the coal industry is more blue collar than blue-collar manual workers. They snuff, chewing tobacco, drinking beer, hunting, taking each other very proud of the work, although modern technology has been well developed, but mining is still a dirty, dangerous work, you need great courage and skill, they have profound camaraderie.
flood struck
July 24 at noon, 18 miners (divided into two groups, each group 9), into Quebec river mine. Kui River is a small mine, is the side of the building side of the type of mining, mining coal from between the rocks. After 14 exploitation of the month, 59 miners have been digging two parts, each of the entrance from the ground about 1.5 miles away. Kui River coal mine on the map a bit like a lower case painting, has been extended to 7 thousand feet from the entrance; location in the middle of the main development of the mine known as the feet.
into the mine and the usual afternoon was no different from usual, uncomfortable .18 mm individuals who self-help system with heavy equipment, including a portable oxygen tank, headlights still attached to a large battery. Mine is the height of the thickness of coal, and Quebec the river is 48-52 inches average thickness of coal seams, which means that most of the work they had to 佝偻着身子 fours Caixing. mine was dark gray wall showing weird, because in flutter of the rock dust, used to increase the inert gas to reduce the possibility of an explosion. entrance to the wearer to follow a few hundred feet of a mosquito that their headlights, manual fan fresh air into the mine. It was a hot afternoon, but the mine always cold and wet. their breath gradually with water vapor. thin water leakage from the mine at the top down, converging to a large puddle, the miners call it water and more rain was the same as real.
the top of every few feet of mine are up to 4 feet above the steel bolt as a support, in some areas also use wood to support weak parts, as the top collapse of the patch. at the top of the existence of a thick cable, carrying 7,200 volts of electricity for large-scale mining machine. miners who went to the main mine shaft and left the junction, Doug. Kast and colleagues Joe. g Si Dike and other miners to continue along the main road with the group go, another group of 9 to the left of mine.
this group of people experienced, the youngest is 31-year-old Harry. Brian. Mei Xiu, was in the Navy, 5 years ago, engaged in mining work, Mei Xiu is the oldest father in law, 52-year-old Thomas. Faye, has worked 29 years in the coal mine. everyone can do many jobs, but the manipulation mining machine is the most sophisticated work, but today the beginning of the 36-year-old John. Philip served, and later handed over to Mark. Popa ng operation.
41-year-old Popa ng 21 years worked in the mines, he The machines came on the 6th entry. Kui River coal mine is very wet everywhere, but the 6 roadway is dry. Suddenly, in front of the rock burst, flooding instantly flooded out. submerged huge mining machines. < br> Obviously this is not normal Zack Mann, a large number of water (hundred million gallons) of flooded out.
Zack Mann Mine drawings
Popa ng roadway in 7, others are 4 entry. not to their potential soon chest, 52-year-old John. Anglesey and the other an elderly miner, Robert. Poole felt a heart attack, young Brian. Mei Xiu and John. Philip in front of Pathfinder and found a desperate situation, the front The water had topped in turn back the invasion. they can only retreat.
them back to the higher terrain, where they work all night, the flood is coming from this part of the influx. but because this is left mine the highest place, it is also the driest place throughout the mine. the flood is still influx.
ng the dark Popa colleagues have found that back. He went to them, the leader of this group of people Randy. Fogel found Popa ng to be washed away, and he saw the excavator was still running, then rushed to open it near the Popa ng side, Popa ng jumped coal excavator bucket, They returned to large forces, the temporary go into the fresh air can not come, but now the mine is like a big bubble of air as the closure of these trapped miners here. in the end may be running out of oxygen, or Isaac Mann will rush to gas, but temporarily What mining magnate four years ago was a common miner, and later invested in a series of mergers and acquisitions only took place today, has made the ownership of coal mines Quebec river.
black fox he came to office, there has been gathered Many people who heard about. Riebeeck and one can often go down, in fact, a few hours left before he hang mine, and he suspected the miners opened up the saxophone Mann mine. But how did it happen? He informed the Members of federal and state coal exploration, they recently have been to Quebec river, no one found to have signs of danger. So they call the same day with him to go down the mine engineer Joe. Gallo.
Creek mine is a Gallo Quebec hand design. He and his team know that Quebec is a moist stream of coal, often within the seepage, the design must take into account this factor, the top must be very stable. but they do not know have been closed near the mine the detailed structure of Isaac Mann , this mine has been closed due to water fills.
prudence, but also according to the law, mining companies opened new mines to be in the old mines before leaving enough around the buffer zones, the most convenient way is to refer to Old mine maps. mining during the drawing of mine changes every week or even every day, to reflect the progress of the project. drawings owned by state and federal agencies all the exploration, each coal mine is closed, the final drawings will be submitted to relevant departments. But because of bureaucracy, laziness coal companies, and even unknown to steal mining and mining rights have occurred, the old drawings of mine are often inaccurate. Gallo and his colleagues visited the four official departments, eventually the pile of files in the company Isaac Mann's drawings to find.
fuzzy closed the map, the parent company of the black fox PBS the company should be determined by drilling investigations Isaac Mann of the border. However, this is very expensive and have not been rules and regulations mandatory requirements. Thus the boundary mapping mainly rely on saxophone Mann scientific speculation. (in fact, accurate maps Isaac Mann does exist, and is stored in a coal mine museum, but was not discovered until after mine.) Gallo confidence in their own maps , national authorities recognized the drawings were approved by Quebec Mining Coal River.
day, 21:45, Gallo is in bed watching TV, I received a phone Riebeeck, he suddenly Mianrutuse. he knew certainly Sachs Man mine is a problem. is drilling. He took the map to the mine, where many people had gathered. mine disaster occurred, the general control of the mine by the federal government, the actual rescue work more guidance from the mine and seek the views of federal and state officials. night The first major decision was to decide where to drill, that is, to determine the location of trapped miners. midnight, the flood has already rushed to the mine mouth, means that already fills the flood inside the mine. If they are dead, the body may Mine will be washed in any location, unless the water out, or can not be found, which take several days or even weeks of time. If they are still alive, where would it?
Riebeeck and Gallo that they may be left only the most remote mine, near the junction of Isaac Mann. Gallo targeting the drilling of the No. 4 tunnel, located beneath the Arnold family farm. Gallo called Sean. Exelon root and Randy. Mercer conducted ground surveys. so he had the scene beginning of this article. the two groups to carry out investigation in different ways, the final result indicates the same place.
Riebeeck's office is now a rescue command center , do you think after the first drill a small hole should be as soon as possible, if the miners were still in that position, you can talk them into a microphone and, if they are not, then put the camera to help rescue workers determine the downhole conditions. Gallo called the local Lu drilling work. Bartlesville, he brought his 6.5 inches rig. drilling on July 25 starting at 3 am Thursday, two hours after the mine's location.
Fortunately, mine the location of miners drilling locations are in the bottom. water influx continues, but has stabilized.
leader Randy. Fogel guarantee the companion on the ground must have been a massive rescue work, he said they will definitely saved us. They heard the sound of drilling, hope this is the rescue staff. At the same time, Fogel told them they had started building fortifications, built with cinder breakwater around them. In fact, cinder enough to stop the flood, but at least you can distract the attention, so they are not so desperate.
violent activities, but increased the oxygen consumption. their big mouth breathing, sensation of breathlessness. Fogel began chest pain. did the heart surgery Faye is dying.
5:00, their heads appeared bored, 6-foot hole dug, and brought a fresh air. drive the drill bit of the air compressor into the air mine. They feel that they can breathe a bit.
trapped miners and the outside world have a fixed signals, each representative of a knock on the next three people still alive. They have knocked all night, and now can finally be heard outside, Faye raised hammer > On the ground, rescue workers could not determine whether to hear a few times. Some people think it is set to hear the sound of 5, followed by another two groups. Gallo think that there are five people alive, two others missing, two killed. It was also think I hear a nine. After all, surely someone alive. send the microphone down the program was abandoned because of drilling one opened up, spewing out a strong air flow immediately, as the same hurricane.
rescue personnel immediately aware of, drill this hole is tantamount to breaking the trapped miners are breathing the Such a program: if rescue workers to remain in the drill bit out of the hole, while continuing to send a large number of high-pressure air down the air enough to breathe the following persons, while high pressure can form a Trapped miners from the open side. It was agreed to try this approach.
site security state leadership Joe mining. Sabu Fernie local fire brigade command came to the rescue workers, blocked by fire air emission from the borehole air, as if to blow the air back. The move slows down the flow of emission, but can not stop it.
At the same time, Bartels Youluosaike drilling machine in the implementation of the program, every minute transport cubic feet, 90 pounds per square inch of air pressure down. rescue workers not sure of the effect of the move, but they want me to bring at least for the trapped miners can breathe air. In this way, Youluosaike's ; artificial bubble no longer heard any sound of drilling and pumping
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to Thursday noon, according to mine the entrance level to determine if the trapped miners remained in place, they have been flooded. water is one hour increase the speed of foot.
rescue personnel within the command is very depressed, just want to find trapped miners higher terrain. but no one knows whether there is a higher terrain underground existence, if any, and where. Kevin
hydrologist mine at this time. Dr. Wu arrived. He believes that six-inch hole drilled earlier was a mistake. destroyed the underground nature of the But more may be melting in the water. He does not worry about the cold ground and air situation, he worried that the miners were drowned.
Dr. Wu's engineering staff in order to calculate the water is 80,000 gallons per minute, the rate of emission will eventually be completely submerged the whole river Quebec. In this case, Dr. Wu that must be pumped.
fact, since the beginning of mine, coal companies have started pumping at the entrance, but using a smaller pump. So large pump quickly transferred from the area in all directions, to 30,000 gallons per minute pumping out the speed.
Thursday 14:30, John. Hamilton brought a large drilling machine. in Arnold Farm rescue miners began to drill the hole. His 30-inch diameter drill, and next compared to a 6-inch drill is really a giant. giant drilling machine to bring new hope, life-saving tank was shipped to standby. The current plan is to aid workers into the underground, the miners rescued alive (or out of the body), into an emergency life-saving module. Riebeeck first one is willing to go down to save people, but experts insisted the mine to send rescue teams have received special training to go down. < br> Experts estimate that big rig will be drilling within 18 hours through rescue well, rushed to the Pennsylvania Governor Shi Weike estimate is expected to rescue the end of Friday morning. But they insisted that Dr. Wu, you must first extract enough water, to drill through the mine wall. Otherwise, if the drill through, will destroy the underground pressure, so that left a lot of water to a rapid influx of mine, flooding the mine. just like the first 6-inch hole damaged the inside of natural > conference held in the command center. Dr. Wu believes that the work of the rescue drilling must stop 30 feet before drilling through until the water pump so the water level reaches 1829 feet underground level. to participate in mine rescue, the doctors worried about the low temperature, that must be against the clock drill through the wall. But Dr Ng is no compromise, that wall is too early to drill through disastrous. His views began to be accepted by all. Navy has also been transferred to the decompression chamber and medical teams to help solve the rescued miners caused of decompression sickness.
1:30 or so, came the bad news mm drill bit unexpected huge break in the shaft, at least 18 and a half hours later to resume drilling.
survival
Dr. Wu for the 6 underground -inch hole in the view seems to be right. in the pit, the miners felt the water level rose quickly, and to Thursday noon, they can only give the location of the original stay, no longer beat the ventilation holes, withdraw to higher ground in the 4 roadway. miners are already accustomed to dealing with death, which is part of their work. collapse, explosion, fire all day haunt them and their families in mind. but now hope is accompanied by the shadow of death, is indeed true torture.
as high into the air, began a slow rise in water potential. for a long time, they sit quietly. John. Philip thought life was taken for granted that he should have. Robert . Poole have enjoyed thinking about the last of the turkey.
Then they talk about their own die. Danny. Hall said when he plans to dive into the water, quietly died. people began to cry. Mei Xiu, said: ; I was so young, ah. out of such a thing on.
Mei Xiu is coming to the Fogel pen, bolt from the rear to fight to find a cardboard box, tear it to pieces, his wife and children began to write words. after all written . they put a suicide note in a plastic containers, the use of tape sealed bolt system in fighting machine.
prayers many times. Popa ng mine that saw flashing in the dark , which makes him feel better a lot. Tom. Faye was thinking what their bodies after death. They will certainly be full of dead bodies floating. He got cable, it is recommended that they should put their wrists tied together, so that body would be more focused, easy to find. 5 other people tied to their own and Faye, Engelhard and Popa ng decisions, etc. Then again, Danny. Hall said he would rather die alone.
Thursday afternoon, the water level has almost saw them. Popa ng and Fogel remind others of vigilance. They recommended the withdrawal of No. 4 tunnel, the gateway to No. 1. where there was a slope higher than 10 feet around here, you can fight for some time .
them to the No. 1 tunnel, Fogel has been watching the water level. to Thursday night, he told the crew were a startling message: stop the rising water potential, and soon began to decline slowly.
successful rescue
the ground, the situation has reached the worst moment. have lost contact with the miners for several hours, as of Thursday evening, the water level has reached 1,852 feet underground, the miners than the last to get in touch with the place than 20 feet. < br> At the same time, pumping work is quite slow. pumps per hour to reduce the water level 1 foot.
Saturday afternoon, rescue work has been carried out to 3. Hamilton drilling rig to drill through the wall from the Only 20 feet away. water levels have been reduced to 1,831 feet, but Dr. Wu is said: If his calculations right, downhole pressure is normal at this time, the drill will not cause a sudden decompression, leading to floods recharge. Still, or take prudent measures, special air lock to be ready, ready down to. measuring instruments of pressure has also been prepared. rescue teams all afternoon exercise, into the yellow rescue capsule. Two medical rescue personnel ready to go down to help rescue trapped miners into the tank, to prevent their inability to walk.
Finally, Hamilton was instructed to drill through the rock. He was very nervous, drilling machine and air compressor should be stopped. John. Youluosaike open barometer, as expected, Dr. Wu, the meter shows zero!
miners who have much hope that the suffering and death. They cold, wet and hungry. they happened to find Danny before. Hall's lunch box floating on the water, so points for him to eat his wife prepared beef sandwich, also underground to find a few cans. final, has been looking at at the top of Faye Lewis suddenly saw a large hole drilled out: Bo. Zelunsiji put on the headphones, the acoustic device into a stainless steel shaft. The results in this case, he said the first thing miners rather delight: to me? people around the base facing the exposed smile, thumbs up, br> troubles
lawsuit was put up soon after the workers accepted the aid. However, their story is not over. endless media coverage of their experiences. journalists, lawyers, agents, book author, radio host surrounded them and provide them with well-known, the temptation of money.
was suggested that the miners requested a lawyer. Randy. Fogel invited everyone to help Pittsburgh's lawyer Thomas. Crawford, who soon got the miners contract with Disney to write a book on Quebec river rescue and film scripts. Disney paid the miners $ 1,350,000, net of legal fees, each assigned to $ 150,000. the equivalent of four years of their income in the underground work. In this way, they not only survived, but also out of the name, but also make a fortune. Joe was in the main mine. Alex jealous of Dick did not have a meaning. people going through. mission is to responsibility. the autumn, after a number of investigations, he pointed out that there is evidence that the company should be aware that Black Fox Sake Mann mine map is not accurate. For example, mining was secretly stealing is a common phenomenon, the company should be expected that situation occurred in the Sac Klinsmann. Moses that the company has deliberately placed in danger the miners too.
Brian. Mei Xiu and John. Philip appears in the October hearing, claiming weeks Mine, has been a danger sign, they said, under the wet ore. miners Riebeeck and several other miners tried to explain, Quebec river's testimony: when he said in the pit, Randy. Fogel has been the announced the investigation into the matter.
end of the year, Quebec river water has been cleared, leading to Isaac Mann's vulnerability has been mended. Riebeeck and workers prepared to resume production, the result will depend on the survey's Procuratorate situation. Quebec river that many workers insist on maintaining Riebeeck, Joe. Fox Dick was among them, he said that once re-opened River Quebec, you are prepared to go back to mining.
stay out of the Mark. Popa ng that: memories underground experience, he said: trapped for three days, he feels that he has seen God's presence, as if dead, two back, but he actually came out alive.