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183 feet and then they ran a test and put the capsule in and sent it down just shy of where the men are. they brought it up, everything worked perfectly. they said there was even no dust on the escape capsule. so they are thrilled. so, of course, your question is if they can get it just shy of where the men are, we are talking about less than 20 feet from where the men are, why don't they start pulled them out? because there are complications in making sure the winch that has the cable over the arm that attaches the cable can withstand the stress of about a half a ton going up and down. and th...

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Not collapse in on the escape capsule as it goes up and down pulling the miners out one at a time. however, there are several engineers here with various different ring opinions on whether it's needed or not. so they are now at that level where they are discussing whether they need to do it or not. they do know down below, 300 feet beyond the entrance, the rock is rock solid. this is some of the hardest rock in the world and that's why it's taken sem so long to get there. and it's some of the tenuous nature of the initial 300 feet that they are going to discuss and determine whether they need ...

Point. we have 16 up, 17 down. up next is omar ryegadas, 56 years old. the capsule, the escape capsule, the fenix 2 is operating as intended. it started out that it was taking slightly more than an hour and thought it would extend into tomorrow night. now the pace, the tempo picked up. the rescues are happening that much faster. spokesman from the government just stopped by and said that in calculations that they're putting together right now, all 33 may be out of the mine by around midnight, 1:00 tonight. that will be fabulous. and right now, nobody is getting overconfident but they're certai...