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Air to be clear enough we can let them go without being in smoke, without being on lifeline and proceed quickly to the upper end of here, if we have time, to -- i mean we're at 48 hours with the refuge alternative. we just can't take any chances of the rescue teams going into an area that could in and of itself cause a problem or explosion or put them in by in a smoke concentration get turned around without being in contact with other members of the team or with people in fresh air. so we've asked the families to be patient, that we want to make sure we don't run them back out. and i'm basical...

So we want the air to be clear enough that qulet them go without being on smoke, without them being on lifeline and proceed quickly to the upper end of here, if we have time to -- i mean we're at 48 hours with the refuge alternative. we just can't take any chances of the rescue teams going into an area that could of itself cause a problem or an explosion or put them in by a smoke concentration, get turned around without being in contact with other members of the team or with people in fresh air. so we've asked the families to be patient. that we want to make sure that we don't run them back ou...

Goes down. the pipe that goes down is basically used for the drilling purposes to ensure that when we start sucking the air out of the mine, we're not pulling the air from the voids, the mines that were mined above us. we have to have a -- a total casing that goes down into the mine that we want to ventilate. and that's the intent of taking it the whole way down, the 1,093 feet into the whole scene we're involved in. as far as the seismic, what it is is there's holes drilled from the surface down a certain distance and there's microphones stuck into those holes. now, miners are trained when th...