Rescuers See 'Survivable Space' in Mine

Attempts to communicate with miners met by 'heartbreaking' silence

By Neal Colgrass, Newser Staff

Posted Aug 11, 2007 4:40 PM CDT

(Newser) – A camera lowered into a Utah mine where six men are stranded showed a 5 1/2-foot “survivable space” today but little else, the AP reports. Rescuers pulled out the video camera to protect it from flowing water and install another lens, hoping for... Read full story »

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