structure. there s a line running over it attacked to that fenix capsule and it s bringing miners up from more than 2,000 feet underground, the seventh one in that capsule. they ve been underground for 70 days. the first miner emerged shortly after 11:00 p.m. eastern, and this operation will continue for the next day at least, we would assume. yes, because i guess the round trip is about 50 minutes on average by the time they bring them up. 15-minute ride, unloading them, letting them get accustomed to getting back on the surface, and then checking to make sure everything is okay with the capsule and the winch and sending it back down again. right now we re in the middle of the rescue of the seventh miner. we ll be seeing jose ojeda coming to the surface. six men rescued so far, each
separate eem motions because have you to be. to watch good thing happening and hopefully again there is 32 more rescues coming up. and. this is just amazing. to be able to tell a very. and yes. and show that amazing technology. you re looking at people 2000 feet underground. and they re coming up and so far they ve been safe and sound. and even the partnership among the nations working together. people working hard around the clock. rescuers working hard. people who don t know these miners never met a miner are watching this now. and being thrilled for the family and excited. it s a wonderful opportunity to skmaer see the very good in what we do in this world. it s unusual in this business. absolutely. captivating. yet, it s in time of skbar bad
watching very closely each and every move and this live camera 2,300 feet underground. it s so surreal when you see that capsule appear and then disappear going up that long borehole taking these miners to safety. the president of chile suggested in the last couple of days that these miners, maybe not to a man but certainly some of these miners are going to have reintegrating into society after being underground isolated with such close contact with co-workers for so long. what do you think? i don t think anyone can say they will or won t have problems. i think probably most will do okay. this is what we see across all kinds of events. it s tricky with this event because forgive the phrase, there was very little data on how people deal with a situation like this because it is so completely unique. there is expert data from nasa. they compare it to time spent in a submarine or close environment and some liken it to
one out, oddly enough. that has all been settled. jenna: we ll be talking also to dr. keith ab below a little more about that, about what happens afterwards, once money gets involved, a lot of different things can happen with these relationships that were built for the last 59 69 days underground. just to give you a little perspective, we re standing quite a bit aways seeing quite a ways from where this capsule is lowered, 2000 feet underground. just to give you perspective, the hole that was used to send messages and sometimes food and medicine was about the size reportedly of an orange, for days and days and weeks and weeks. that s what they were using to slide some of these different materials down. the hole that they re using now, apparently, is about the size of a bicycle wheel in dramter, so that s about the size that they re going in. you can think about that in your head and realize how tight it is, being lowered down, being brought back up, supposedly not a necessarily eas
still trapped below. the first to surface, he arrived to cheers from his family and from country men there in chile. he like the second rescued miner wearing a helmet and sunglasses. protected from light above ground. avalos smiling and hugging workers then embracing chile s president. the miner s wife two, children, his father, all there waiting for him, smiling. crying and laughing. and then, just quickly as he arrived, he was off in an ambulance, rushed off on a gurney for mefd cal testing. more background now. again, these men have been trapped a terrible ordeal, more than 2,000 feet underground. the trip up in a rescue capsule taking about 20 minutes. and now moving faster than anticipated or represented with things included an