One puzzle about the Chilean rescue

[BadBob]

There's a video of the last rescuer leaving the Chilean mine after the heroic rescue on the BBC here. A magnificent effort but I did wonder, who or what causes the camera to wobble 4 seconds in if he's the last to leave? Just seems a bit odd...

Edited by BadBob on Thursday 14th October 17:43

[Oxygen Thief]

The medics they sent down to check if everyone was fit and well enough to make the journey to the surface.

[missdiane]

My very bored mind wondered similar this morning how long they had left it on for and what you would see, memories of that cave spoof website were playing on my mind

who moved to news? This is not news

Edited by missdiane on Thursday 14th October 17:41

[BadBob]

Can't have been the medics, he was the last rescuer/medic leaving. It's all solid rock too (or appears to be) not a flexible wooden floor.

[Dogwatch]

Oxygen Thief said:

The medics they sent down to check if everyone was fit and well enough to make the journey to the surface.

Six of them IIRC. Who strapped the last one of them to leave into the pod-thing though?

[Kermit power]

I don't understand why the miners are being hailed as "national heroes"? What exactly is heroic about sitting around underground for 69 days until someone else digs you out?

[GTIR]

Kermit power said:

I don't understand why the miners are being hailed as "national heroes"? What exactly is heroic about sitting around underground for 69 days until someone else digs you out?

Wait till they find out they all forgot to clock in.

[Streps]

Chile has had a hard time recently, With the earthquake and other thing's so this is at least something for them to celebrate .They are national hero's for bringing the country together ,whilst surviving the most horrible situation of being the only Humans to ever spend that much time recorded underground.

National pride mostly

Edited by Streps on Thursday 14th October 18:21

[Killer2005]

BadBob said:

There's a video of the last rescuer leaving the Chilean mine after the heroic rescue on the BBC here. A magnificent effort but I did wonder, who or what causes the camera to wobble 4 seconds in if he's the last to leave? Just seems a bit odd...

Edited by BadBob on Thursday 14th October 17:43

[Puggit]

My puzzle - how on earth did the rescuers get that hole so damn accurate?!

GPS is all well and good, but there isn't any underground...!

[Sheets Tabuer]

Everytime the capsule popped out did anyone else expect to see "him" jump out?

Dun dun derrrr.

[Kermit power]

Streps said:

Chile has had a hard time recently, With the earthquake and other thing's so this is at least something for them to celebrate .They are national hero's for bringing the country together ,whilst surviving the most horrible situation of being the only Humans to ever spend that much time recorded underground.

National pride mostly

I'm not saying I'm not pleased for them and their families, but if I was one of the drilling team who'd just dug an inch-perfect shaft to rescue them in a fraction of the time expected, I'd be somewhat fked off with the guys who sat on their arses waiting for me got all the hero accolades!

[The Hypno-Toad]

SSSSHHHH!!! If you're not careful you'll turn this into a conspiracy theory thread and that'll wake up the hedders.

None of us want that.

[XG332]

Why do you think they put a big steel lid on and used loads of bolts?
To keep somothing INSIDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[jmorgan]

Everyone one knows the gravity gets less as you go down and they moved as in normal gravity.......
Four minutes into one clip the set shook.

[Streps]

I heard something about it being an American drilling crew, could be mistaken though.

See all of the steam coming out of the shaft though, must of been sweaty down there, i would not of wanted to be the president who hugged everyone who came out!

[anonymous-user]

what about the fat bloke who couldn't fit in the capsule? they had to kill him, then pay his family off, so they wouldn't tell

[audidoody]

I asked my wife for a Chilean miner last night. She said, what's that? and i said, go down to the bottom of my shaft and stay there til christmas

[Gokartmozart]

Puggit said:

My puzzle - how on earth did the rescuers get that hole so damn accurate?!

GPS is all well and good, but there isn't any underground...!

They would have taken directional surveys as they drilled to record azimuth and inclination.

They would know the location of the subsurface safe zone and used that as a target centre.
From the surface location you can derive a path to drill to the target.

[Puggit]

Gokartmozart said:

Puggit said:

My puzzle - how on earth did the rescuers get that hole so damn accurate?!

GPS is all well and good, but there isn't any underground...!

They would have taken directional surveys as they drilled to record azimuth and inclination.

They would know the location of the subsurface safe zone and used that as a target centre.
From the surface location you can derive a path to drill to the target.

Ok if you know where the target is!