The Thirty-Three Below
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The Thirty-Three Below
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On the fifth of August, 2010, a block of rock estimated at seven hundred thousand tonnes sheared off inside the San José copper mine in northern Chile and sealed the only vehicle route to the surface. Thirty-three men were two thousand three hundred feet below it. They climbed into the ventilation shafts looking for the escape route the mine had been legally required to provide, and found bare rock where the ladders should have been. Then they went back down, divided food meant for a few days among thirty-three men, and waited in the dark. Eight boreholes missed. On the twenty-second of August the ninth broke through, and when the drill string came up there was a note on it in red paint: we are well in the refuge, the thirty-three. That was day seventeen of sixty-nine. This episode is mostly about the other fifty-two — and about what happened to these men after a billion people stopped watching.
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