Chilean Mine Disaster

1. Chilean Mine Disaster
Buried Alive

2. Group Members
 Israr Ud Din 26751
 Muhammad Waseem 25499
 Naeem Ur Rahman 27163
 Muzammil Khan 25396

3. Chilean Mining Disaster
We did a case study on the
Chilean Mining Disaster, an
incident which shocked and
touch the whole world…

4. overview of the
disaster On the 5th
August 2010 the
world was shocked
because 33 miners became
trapped in a Chilean mine
following a cave in.
 They got out on the 13th
October - that’s 69 days
without sunlight or fresh air.
 The mine had already had
a disaster so it should have
been shut down!

5. The conditions in the mine
 The miners were 3 miles
underground and away from
fresh air.
 They only had 1.2miles of
galleries to move around in. It
was very dirty and cramped.
 Ventilation problems led them
to move to a tunnel to shelter
for the rest of their time stuck
down in the mine.

6. How the miners survived trapped
in the mine
 The miners got their
food and drink from the
people on the surface
sending food down a
very long tube.
 Before they were
having food sent down
to the mine, the men
were living on just two
spoon fulls of tuna and
a sip of milk a day.
 They only ate meat and
rice because the rescue
tube was 66cm in
diameter and nothing
else could fit down to
reach them.

7. Thoughts and feelings of the miners
and their families
 Videos were sent up to
the families from the
miners.
 “Dario knows we’re all up
here and now he has to
be strong,” said Dario’s
mum.
 Osman Araya sent a
message to his wife and
daughter saying, “I will
fight to the end to be
with you.”

8. Camp Hope
 The relatives of the
miners stayed in
their cars nearby
and prayed for a
miracle.
 People stuck flags in
the ground for each
miner at Camp
Hope.
 Camp Hope is
going to be turned
into a museum.

9. The machinery used in the
rescue
 An American man
named Jeff Hart drilled
the hole that helped
get the miners out. The
crew used a Schramm
T130 drill.
 Each miner was
strapped into a harness
21 inches (53 cm) wide
inside a bullet-shaped
capsule.
 The rescue crews
planned to raise the
miners one by one with
the pod.

10. The Rescue Mission
 It took 50 minutes for each
miner to be rescued, with
the rescue operation taking
forty-eight hours to
complete.
 Florencio Avalos, aged
thirty-one, was the first miner
to be rescued.
 The thirty-three miners were
pulled up in a capsule safely
to land.

11. The impact of the disaster on the
rest of the world
 The disaster took over all
the newspaper pages
and TV programmes.
 Lots of countries such as
the U.K, Brazil and Peru
contacted Chile to send
their support.
 People all over the world
tuned in to see the
rescue mission live on the
internet.

12. What happened when the miners were
rescued?
 The miners sung songs
and gave their family
members hugs and
kisses their babies
when they reached
the surface.
 All of the 33 men had
to go to hospital.
 One man had to stay
in hospital longer
because he was
traumatised.

13. Thank you for
watching our
presentation!
We hope you enjoyed it and learned something new.