Poor buggers,hope they are out today.

Having worked down a coal mine thats exactly whats its like The father in law was a miner and has been caught in a cave in, scary stuff. He gave the game away when he couldn't run fast enough.

Yeah... in late '03 I spent a few months driving trucks underground. Great job, until the power failed and the lights went out - and the air blower. I couldn't have been more than a few metres from the truck, but I had no idea where it was...

I reckon they'd be listening pretty hard to the ground singing as well!

Jeez, I feel for those blokes.

May they get out soon.

That is EXACTLY what it's like when the lights go out down there. Used to work near the bottom of that big hole near Boulder forty odd years ago and loved it, twenty three years ago took my teenage sons down the Nickel mine at Kambalda. Big thrill for them and I got the urge again, must be mad.

I have had a lifelong fear of being buried alive.

I read an article in Time magazine a few months ago where the AMA stated that about 20 American declared dead every year and then buried were in a coma and could have come "awake in a way". Probably not enough oxygen to fully come awake.

Imagine the absolute horror of being buried in a coffin as dead then not being so.

I am claustrophic (sic) at the best of times but the thought of that is TOO SCARY to imagine.

I wonder how those two Tassy blokes coped?


Before many go off, there are many recorded accounts (admittedly form at least two hundred years ago) of people being interred, then dug up for some reason and their possition in the coffin has made it obvious they weren't dead when planted.

Leonardo Di Vinci was one, apparently.

About 8 years ago i was taken to the shot face at Mt Isa...we were at that stage 1.8 kilometres vertically down and it was almost impossible to breathe in a section where there was no air conditioning,if i remember rightly the rock temps were around the 60 odd celsius mark and it was fucking terrible down there...those hard rock miners really earn their pay.

Great news! The two miners are out and in pretty good shape, all things considered!

As someone who grandfathers on both sides were coal miners here in Wales, i've been following the story closely, but it seemed to take for ever!

Great news and quite emotional too....the real heroes are the fellas that have been chiselling away for the last fortnight under extreme conditions

Thank God the two guys are out of the dark now and above ground after 14 days trapped.

I see every arsehole politician in Tasmania and Federal Gov't has used any opportunity they could get to use the issue to put their ugly lying faces on camera ..................