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Thread #133707   Message #3038838
Posted By: Little Robyn
23-Nov-10 - 02:00 PM
Thread Name: BS: New Zealand mine explosion (19 Nov 2010)
Subject: RE: BS: New Zealand mine explosion
The first robot started up again but it's now out of battery, I hear.
A second one seems to be moving in at the moment but a third is on it's way from Australia. Some have wheels and some have tracks - if they meet with rubble, the wheels might not work so well.....
Some relatives were upset that the press was releasing info that they hadn't heard yet so there won't be a press conference this morning until after the families have all been updated.
The hope is that some men might have been working around a corner so the blast might not have hurt them so much (the map looks like a rabbit warren) but the force of the blast coming out of the mine from 2km down the tunnel was certainly strong enough to knock you over. I can't imagine what it might have been like in an enclosed space.
It's coming up to 8:00 on Wednesday morning and the various rescue teams are up and working, tho' some people will have been working throughout the night.
Robyn