loved ones and children are putting their lives on hold, does that help or add to the anxiety? it s probably a mix. i think it s very important to have a sense of those statements struck me as he s still playing the role of the husband and father. and that hasn t been taken away from him. the communication i think is just remarkable in that regard that he was able to still be still have the relationship he had and still have it even when he was down there and still participate in that relationship, which gives him still something to live for, something to hold onto. something to be while he s down there. not just a guy stuck in the ground. he s a father and husband. what we re watching right now is preparations to get mario gomez back up to the surface. they re getting him into that capsule. according to the minister of health for chile, this is going to be the most complicated so far of the rescues because as we have pointed out, mario gomez suffers from a lung disease. they l
he thanked the president and others with souvenirs from the miners. he was so excited he hugged the president three times. they may be rocks but they re going to be priceless. you never know. there is no sign he was overwhelmed by the experience at all. he looked ecstatic, ran to the group of rescuers, beat his chest and chanted the name of his country before his president and everyone. chi, here s the fourth miner. hs we the only nonchilean of the 33. his wife and president were there. they were waving the ba livan flag. when he stepped out of the fenix capsule he fell to his knees and thanked god he was alive.
going up in a corkscrew manner. it will take 15 to 17 minutes to go through. it s a cork screw, so if anyone has hypertension before, any sort of health issues, that might prove to be a bit difficult of a journey. the capsule does have an oxygen supply and a telephone in it as well. jonathan mann was describing what it was like to be like in a capsule. he said it was feeling like you were in a coffin because there s really no way to move around, and as you point out, they ll have oxygen. they ll also have video and audio access. this was captivated. people online on this story has gone completely viral. christy has been surfing the internet and sees what kinds of posts and comments are out there. hey, there. what are you seeing? this is what we re seeing. again, we re keeping an eye on
let me bring you up to speed with what we re looking at. we re following the rescue of the miners 33 trapped undergrounds for 69 days. that s the rig on top of it. see the wheel on top of that? that s the wheel of the winch. it s rotating clockwise, which means the capsule, the fenix capsule fenix of course a bird that rolse from its own ashes, is on the way up 2300 feet. we saw the 19th miner, pablo alfonso am day yas rojas. he got in it. he s a carrier pigeon handler like his cousin. he helps overcome the going and coming of packages to the mine. he s married for 21 years, got one son. he has two cousins by the way in the mine. they ve both been rescued
like a stockholm syndrome thing? do you become buddies with the folks you were stuck with when maybe you weren t buddies with before? actually, the situation was that we had an american and russian on board. i was there with a russian crewmate. i had learned to speak russian and he had learned to speak english and we were working with the two control centers so we could all talk to each other. we became very close together in training. we trained together 3 1/2 years. we learned each other s languages. so in a sense, you re right, you do kind of bond with the person especially in an emergency situation, survival situation like these guys in the mine were or still are. guys on the right side of the picture what you re seeing, that s the top of the hole. we have just seen that shuttle, the capsule, fenix capsule go into the hole leaving the mine we re guessing 15 minutes or so before the next rescue. pablo rojas 45 years old. he s a carrier pigeon handler and he will be the 19th pers