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The Chile rescue

dhermann1

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It's interesting, this event reminds me a lot of the rescue of 33 sailors from the USS Squalus in 1939. And of course of the moon landing in 1969.
:eusa_clap to Chile.
 

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Yes and Texas drillers rock..:eusa_clap:eusa_clap

Great to see those reunited with their loved ones.

One of the highlights of our existence or mine anyway was when the little girl Baby Jessica was removed out of the hole in West Texas in 1987. I shall never forget it. I can only imagine how Chile is feeling now. :eusa_clap
 

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Well, as I said, I though it was an interesting parallel to the 1939 submarine rescue. But I guess nobody's interested in the VINTAGE TIE IN angle. ;)
 

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Well, they did all give each other haircuts and shave underground, before coming out to the world again. Grooming counts!
 
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People do have an amazing ability to pull together when it counts. Put 15 people together in a reality tv show and they'll hate each other within minutes. Put 30 people in an collapsed mine or sunken submarine where death is the most likely outcome, and they'll have no problems at all. Seems to me the quickest means toward world peace is a global catastrophe.
 

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People do have an amazing ability to pull together when it counts....... Put 30 people in an collapsed mine or sunken submarine where death is the most likely outcome, and they'll have no problems at all.





It appears that there were some serious problems brewing down there which the psychologists did help them work through to foster a team mentality. Mind you, what helped to that end more was the realization that they were in fact going to be rescued and that they would all become rich from the ordeal.





The Telegraph said:
It is understood that the men have vowed never to talk about exactly what went on during the 17 initial days after the mine collapsed and before a borehole reached their refuge and rescuers found them alive.

"Things went on down there which will never be spoken of," one miner's wife said. "They have taken a pledge of silence."
 

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...said one of the psychologists.


The Telegraph said:
It has emerged that in the early days of being trapped five of the men had formed a breakaway group after becoming isolated from the rest because of their status as “subcontracted workers”.

“It seems they were treated as second class citizens within the refuge,” a source within the rescue team told Chilean national newspaper El Mercurio. “Actually they were marginalised and had set up camp in another part of the mine, away from the rest of the group.”




How do you know the source was a psychologist?
 

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It's not too hard to imagine what may have taken place when they spent 17 days fully aware of how unlikely a rescue would be and having limited food and water.
 

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