Rescuers Bring Up All 72 Canadian Miners
 

After the horrors the US has had recently with mine disasters, this was very good to read.

ESTERHAZY, Saskatchewan (AP) - Rescuers retrieved all 72 central Canadian potash miners who were trapped underground by a fire and survived until Monday by using oxygen, food and water stored in subterranean emergency chambers.

The rescued miners were all in good health.

They were trapped early Sunday when a fire started in polyethylene piping more than a half-mile underground, filling the tunnels with toxic smoke and prompting the miners to take refuge in the sealed emergency rooms.

Thirty-two miners were brought to the surface at about 3:30 a.m., said Mosaic Co., which owns the mine. Another 35 emerged a few hours later, followed by the remaining five. No serious injuries were reported.

Well, I guess these pople are just lucky enough to be able to survive. :)

I don't think it's luck - I think it's prior planning. Seems to me the big difference here was that the Canandians were able to see what might happen in a disaster and planned for it - by stashing oxygen, etc. Why doesn't the US do that?

I'll go out on a limb here and say it's because we're cheap and stupid.

You're right, Rochard. The Canadian mine planned ahead to keep its miners alive in case of an accident.

We just made "television" out of our accidents...damn us to hell.

we are cheap, stupid and assume that because we are the almighty americans that nothing is gonna happen to us. We spend more money funding other countries then we do protecting our own.

Well, I stand corrected man. I was still disgruntled by how the American authorities handled that tragic dissaster..