Mining Rescue

[Guest guest]

I am proud of what the Americans did to rescue the miners in Chile. I have not

seen, nor heard from the media who was directly involved or given credit for

their involvement in this crisis that brought every miner up from the bowels of

that mine - safely. I have always heard the old axiom, give credit where credit

is due and what they did is far and away underscored. Never underestimate the

will of the people who come up with these novel ideas that have never been done

before. The miners showed real courage to live in that environment and to have

hope that they would be reunited with their families. I have to admire the

president of Chile for allowing foreign companies to send their crews out there,

there are some who are so caught up in themselves that they would not ask for

help, even if it meant their citizens were in peril. Let's do what the media

has failed to do, give credit where it is due. If you personally know someone

who was not mentioned here, then give a holler for those rescuers, too and we

will give attach a name to their contribution. We don't want to exclude anyone

who was there with their boots on the ground. These are the unsung heroes, let

them be unsung no more.

Schramm Inc. of West Chester, Pennsylvania built the drills and equipment

used to reach the trapped miners.

Center Rock Company, also from Pennsylvania , built the drill bits used to

reach the miners.

UPS, the US shipping company, delivered the 13-ton drilling equipment from

Pennsylvania to Chile in less than 48 hours.

Crews from Layne Christensen Company of Wichita Kansas and its subsidiary

Geotec Boyles Bros. worked the drills and machinery to locate and reach the

miners and then enlarge the holes to ultimately rescue them.

Jeff Hart of Denver Colorado was called off his job drilling water wells

for the U.S. Army's forward operating bases in Afghanistan to lead the

drilling crew that reached the miners.

Atlas Copco Construction Mining Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin provided

consulting on how to make drilling equipment from different sources work

together under differing pressure specifications.

Aries Central California Video of Fresno California designed the special

cameras that were lowered nearly a mile into the ground sending back video

of the miners.

Zephyr Technologies of polis land, made the remote monitors of

vital signs that miners wore during their ascent.

NASA Engineers designed the " Phoenix " capsule that miners would be brought

to the surface in, and provided medical consulting, special diets and

spandex suits to maintain miners' blood pressure as they're brought back to

the surface.

Drilling Supply Co., Houston also involved.

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FYI,

Lottie Duthu