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They have dealt with nasa quite a bit. and nasa makes some comparisons to the international space station. how do you deal with people when they have been isolated and away from home and that feeling of removed like in space. and this underground. really that capsule itself sometimes looks like a rocket ship only it s going to be going in the opposite direction in a couple hours time. shepard: steve, we are watching it as are as that capsule something hoisted now perpendicular to the earth for the first time that i have seen today. is this an indication that this process is beginning a little earlier than thought or is this as planned? what we are seeing now, i believe to be an s. an empty capsule. i think after the adjustments they are going to test to see how it goes up and down again. that capsule has been raised and lowered before. it s actually come within 40 feet of those miners. you can imagine the discipline when that escape hatch is open, when you can see up and you see t ....
Down there to go and check them out to make sure serve feeling comfortable and safe to come up. the first thing they are going to be concerned about as these guys come up with the panic attacks. that s going to be the biggest concern. panic attacks can actually mimic a heart attack. shepard: while in the capsule. so while in the shaft. they have remain calm. get enough oxygen. lungs get saturated with oxygen continue to have good blood flow through their brain as well. hopefully so they won t pass out. it s going to be really important for them to remain calm during this time. if they do develop a panic attack, there is going to be no means to calm them down or to get them to relax. so they are going to have to find a way to get themselves through that panic attack. a panic attack is a very real phenomenon. very difficult for the person to control themselves. so when the navy marine goes down there and as a medic assesses them, he is going to have to screen them and determine which ....
Surface. should there be unfortunate collapse they will be able to keep whoever is in that capsule alive in theory. there is a harness there so the miners will be strapped into the capsule just in case somebody faints. imagine coming up through this. if they faint, they should be able to live through it the escape shaft itself is 24 inches, 2 feet across. and there is a metal casing used to stop the walls from caving. in each of those or the capsule itself 13 feet tall. and it weighs 926 pounds. so almost half a ton. and that capsule will take four to five people down to help them and 33 miners, in theory back to the surface. and we should have all of that done by this time tomorrow. dr. coomer is with us from the medical a team. there is a lots of things to worry about these folks. what is the first thing you have to worry about. sending down the navy marine ....
Nine miners from the pennsylvania flooded cue creek coal mine. i said 2002. same rescue cage they are using in chile. the man in charge of that entire rescue was a man named dave loreski. he currently runs a company called safety solutions international. and he is live with us today. dave, i m sure you remember the moments before this was about to happen at the cue creek mine in pennsylvania. i will never forget these cages coming up. oh, i sure do shepard. a time that stays with you forever. exsilver rating but also quite nerve-racking i have to tell you. shepard: what happens to make sure this happens right list. making sure they have contingencies in place in case something does go wrong that they can deal with that certainly knowing that the capsule or cage that they have is going to make a clean dissent and a clean assent from the mine ....
Whether they were going to reinforce that with steel sheathing to prevent it from caving in. they did reinforce the first 300 feet to make that a smoother ride. this is a real mixture of high and low tech. you have basically a giant fishing reel being spun out by engineers. at the same time you do have a capsule which is cable of blue tooth communication and monitoring your heart rate with a video signal on the way up and down. shepard: steve, i should let our viewers know the only media allowed to record these men coming out of the shaft will be these. a government photographer, still photographer. and then chile s state television channel, pictures from which we are watching now. but once the rescues begin to happen, these pictures will be delayed by 30 seconds or more to prevent the release of anything, as they put it, unexpected. the worst technical problem that could arise according to the rescue coordinator there telling the associated press is that a rock could fall, potential ....