13 October 2010: the 33 men trapped in the San José mine in the Atacama came up one at a time in a steel capsule, 69 days after the collapse. Around 5.3 million watched the winch live.
The crush of it: on 19 August a probe reached a chamber where they were thought to be and found no signs of life. On 22 August the eighth borehole poked through. Taped to the drill bit was a note: "Estamos bien en el Refugio los 33." The men had written it days earlier, before anyone on the surface knew they were alive.
Source: "2010 Copiapó mining accident", Wikipedia.
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