Chilean Mine Collapse | No Escape | 2

Against The Odds

Wondery

Cassie De Pecol, History, Society & Culture, Dolby, Mike Corey, Dolby Atmos, Atmos

4.7 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

After exploring possible escape routes and finding them all blocked, the 33 miners must face the truth: They really are trapped, more than 2,000 feet underground. Now, they must stay disciplined and ration their emergency food and water supplies if they have any hope of survival.

Meanwhile, on the surface, a rescue effort gets underway. Several drills begin working to tunnel down to the trapper miners. But the rescuers have no way of knowing exactly where in the mine the miners are -- or how many of them are alive, or dead.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime members, you can listen to against the odds at free on Amazon music. Download the app today.
0:15.6	Minor Mario Sepulveda climbs up an iron rebar ladder in a narrow ventilation shaft.
0:22.6	He's trying to find a way out of the San Jose mine in Northern Chile, which collapse
0:28.2	catastrophically just a few hours ago.
0:31.3	He and a group of other miners are trapped more than 2,000 feet underground.
0:36.3	The main ramp leading up to the mine's only entrance is blocked behind a slab of fallen rock weighing thousands of tons.
0:45.0	After the collapse, the miners can't tell if there's any way out of the mine that isn't blocked.
0:50.4	But Sepulveda is determined to look for one.
0:53.4	He hopes this shaft, which doubles as an emergency escape route, might still provide a path to the surface.
1:01.7	Hand over hand, he ascends the shaft with three of his fellow miners climbing right behind him.
1:09.7	The iron runs wiggle loosely in the wall.
1:14.1	Sepulveda silently curses the mine's owners for not properly maintaining these air shafts.
1:19.3	They haven't even provided the miners with a map of possible escape routes.
1:24.3	This shaft might lead to a way out or it might lead nowhere.
1:29.6	Sepulveda grabs the next wrong, but it snaps free from the wall and nails him square in the teeth.
1:36.4	The metallic tang of blood fills his mouth.
1:40.2	He clenches his jaw and climbs on, determined not to let the mountain defeat him.
1:45.2	Sepulveda's boss, Luis Rusua, tried to talk him out of climbing up the air shaft.
1:53.0	It's a hundred feet straight up and the mountain is still shifting under the initial collapse.
1:58.5	If a falling rock hits him, he would plummet to his death.
2:02.8	But in Sepulveda's mind, even if there's one percent chance of making it to the top, he has to take it.
2:09.6	He burns with the desire to be a hero, to save his fellow miners, who are waiting down below to see if he can find a way out.
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