Miners haiku 30.09.2011.

Source The Guardian.

Thirty three Chilean miners have all been rescued after over a month of living far underground.This is a testimony to the human spirit and to human compassion, of faith on the part of the miners whose courage never wavered and who took up Bible reading classes using tiny bibles underground, of their compatriots and relatives as well as a tribute to the hard work and dedication of those who brought them up safely from the San Jose gold and copper mine in Copiago. The world's media descended on them and their story and had hoped to make them into celebrities.

The capsule designed to rescue the miners was sent down a hole the diameter of a man-hole cover, or, if you prefer, a hole the diameter of an American pizza. Other items were sent to keep them alive. Pills, boots, collapsible beds in bits, crucifixes, food, water were all sent down a bore-hole.

All 33 trapped men were brought up via the capsule.


Crosses, pills, beds and

hope kept chilled miners alive

(story was mined though.)