Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20101016:02:07:00
Mine, one of the reasons, the difficulties of putting that probe into the mine and locating exactly the refuge area was because the mine map supplied by the mining company was so out of date they didn't know where the refuge was, according to those maps. so really it was sticking a whole series of different probes into that hillside, the proverbial needle in the hey stack. so after the 17 days they came up to the refuge. they didn't know if the men were alive. so what the men did was bang, bang, bang on the side of that drill to send a vibration up the tube. they painted the tip of the drill r...
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