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This is the account of the 2010 San Jose mine rescue in Chile, after one of the longest human entrapments in history. With his coveted "rescue pass," the author was permitted access far past the police perimeter. It would be seventeen long days before the miners were discovered alive and the world press descended. It would be another fifty-two days before the miners were all successfully rescued. For eight weeks, the author conducted interviews with...
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"The amazing story of the Chilean miners and their incredible rescue!"-- Provided by publisher.
"A middle grade nonfiction title about thirty-three miners trapped in a copper-gold mine in San Jose, Chile and how experts from around the world, from drillers, to astronauts, to submarine specialists, came together to make their remarkable rescue possible"-- Provided by publisher.
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Manuel Pino Toro was one of the first journalists on the site after the 2010 Chilean mining accident. Here Toro writes a gripping account of the disaster and its aftermath, and relays intimate interviews with the survivors who were buried underground for 69 days before being rescued.
Estuve con Dios y estuve con el diablo. Se pelearon y ganó Dios, me agarre de la mejor mano", relató el minero Mario Sepúlveda una vez rescatado desde las profundidades...