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>Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 15:00:43 EDT
>Subject: Re: [MiningHistory] RESCUE
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>In a message dated 7/28/2002 1:30:01 PM Central Daylight Time,
>[log in to unmask] writes:
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>> Was 'history made'? Was the rescue method, drilling a large diameter shaft
>> c.240 feet to the air pocket in the mine, unprecedented?
>>
>Hello Peter and all,
>
>Certainly rotary drilling a 30 inch diameter bore hole is not unprecdented,
>however, I do not recall a rescue of this type before. I will stand
>corrected.
>
>I would think the planning and execution of the rescue was certainly one that
>will go into the textbooks ie. thinking as a miner and in which direction
>would have they logically gone in their situation, using a smaller 6 inch
>borehole, very early on, in an attempt to make contact, then to pump
>compressed air down the 6 inch hole to give the men some heat so as to
>prevent hypothermia and to also pressurize the area as we sandhogs did in
>soft ground tunneling. I suppose if it was not in the textbooks, then it is
>an historical event being as no one else had used this method in this
>particular situation.
>
>As for the historical record, I wish some of the thinking in Great Britain
>would rub off on our government, which seems hell bent to destroy the
>artifacts and history of mining in many but not all cases in the name of
>environmental cleanups and Super Fund sites. I do hope that mentality will
>change.
>
>Kind regards,
>Jim Besleme
>
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