One guy may actually prefer to be left down there instead: http://abcnews.go.com/International/chilean-miner-yonni-barrios-mistress-wife/story?id=11869775 "Marta Salinas, the 56-year-old wife of Barrios, won't be glued to her television during his rescue, either. Salinas says she is not interested in the rescue of her husband after learning about his mistress, Susana Valenzuela, whom he had been seeing on the sly for years. "
at this point, i'm more interested in what is going to happen with #21, the wife, the mistress, and the scarecrow.
this is an unprecedented feat in engineering and survival. this will go down as a huge moment in mining history and for all the contributors to this successful mission. it is a breaking news story as long as there are still miners trapped down there and until all the miners are safe. and to respond to your first post, it has little to do with "ratings", and it is going to be a 30-36 hour process once it is all said and done. the mining company and Chilean State Media is giving full access and transparency, it has nothing to do with the media outlets and their networks looking for ratings. these kind of statements seem shallow in scope of the big picture
apparently both showed up earlier in the week...that's how he got busted...the wife heard the mistress screaming for his name and wondered WTF was her problem...so then the wife got upset and left the site, so i believe it was the mistress who welcomed him. To me, it did appear awkward on his part. He probably figured out what happened right at that moment.
how would you handle being stuck underground for two months without seeing your wife or children (if you even have any) and on top of all not knowing if you're going to survive. Didn't 17 days go by without them even knowing that people were trying to rescue them? Tough guys, or women, you and Sand Balla.
Finally they're are out, including the people that they sent down to helping them! Im so glad, nothing bad happened. and I think this is a very worthy headline news. They were trapped 68-69 days in the mine, 17 day without knowing if people where going to rescue them. and finally they manage a way to rescue them, it was an amazing thing to watch, I watched all day this story. and I agree why all the breaking news, had to be a disaster and a tragedy. This is nice story.
according to 20/20 last night, it was reported that they knew someone was trying to rescue them because they heard the sounds of drilling from day 5 or something.
I'm generally apathetic to feel good stories but this is just amazing. the fact that these guys didn't have contact with the surface for 17 days is unbelievable. I smiled everytime I stopped on a channel that was broadcasting the resecue. The spirit of the whole country is contagious. compared to all our b****ing on who's responsible for the BP disaster. the US can learn a lot from Chile.
This is a great human story but I think the more important thing to take from this is how this disaster was handled. Unlike many recent disasters we didn't see a lot of finger pointing and arguments over turf or national pride. The Chilean government took over right away and ran things without arguments about shaking down the mining company. They put out a call for international help which they accepted with humility and grace. This was a triumph of both engineering but also of organization that every government, corporation and NGO should look at when dealing with future disasters.
Being slightly claustrophobic there is no way I could handle that. If I was really desperate for work I would rather be one of the deadliest catch guys than work in a mine.
I'm gonna change the scenario just for fun.. Imagine if the miners were all woman every 33 of them, American woman to be exact.. Do you think they will last even for a day, lol.. The b****ing will start first and followed by fighting each other to death, lol...
This one isn't about us. Further, this has little if not nothing in common with the BP disaster. The bashing in this country for this country is sad.
This isn't about our country but there are lessons we can take from comparing how this disaster was handled versus how we have handled disasters to improve our response when the next one hits.
Yes, but not really the BP disaster, it has more to do with the humanity of the entire thing, I would think Katrina was more akin to this...if mankind is involved the human element makes it a much more engaging story. Unless you are on Whale wars of course. DD
