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Hi Group I am pretty sure there has been at least one sucessful rescue previously via large dia borehole in USA. I was an official of NSW Mines Rescue Service here in Australia for eighteen years and we investigated the use of such a technique and I can remember seeing a USBM publication with photos taken underground followng the use of a borehole to rescue at least one man for a flooded mine. The USBM at that time (10 years ago) maintained the boring machinery and associated equipment on standby for such rescues. Similarly I have seen the rescue cages in Germany and France and also in the latter country, eqipment for drilling horizontal holes and supplying trapped miners with food and drink (with long loaves of bread specially baked fresh each day !). but can not remember being told if they had been sucessfully used... I believe one is on display at the German Mining Museum at Bochum That said, the men in the recent incident in the US were remarkably lucky that it all came together when needed. Regards Johnhes chapes in Usw ere mighty luchk to have surveved france Essen and WE did nto poroceed but we had dihfg a successful rescue by ----- Original Message ----- From: Peter Claughton <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 4:28 AM Subject: Re: [MiningHistory] RESCUE > For the benefit of UK based list members, the message below relates to the > rescue today of nine coal miners trapped by an inrush in the US, and > certainly warrants rejoicing but raises a few questions. > > Was 'history made'? Was the rescue method, drilling a large diameter shaft > c.240 feet to the air pocket in the mine, unprecedented? > > The inrush of water is of course not unprecedented, neither is the apparent > ignorance of adjacent flooded workings. The Lofthouse inrush disaster of > 1973 focused the UK authorities on the need to maintain the historical > record. Where do the US authorities stand on this matter? > > Peter > > >We've just seen history made this week. Thank God and > >congratulations! > > > >Sam > ______________________________________________ > > Peter Claughton, Blaenpant Morfil, Rosebush, Clynderwen, > Pembrokeshire, Wales SA66 7RE. > Tel. 01437 532578; Fax. 01437 532921; Mobile 07831 427599 > > University of Exeter - School of Historical, Political and Sociological Studies > (Centre for South Western Historical Studies) > E-mail: [log in to unmask] > > Co-owner - mining-history e-mail discussion list. > See http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/mining-history/ for details. > > Mining History Pages - http://www.exeter.ac.uk/~pfclaugh/mhinf/ > > _____________________________________________ >