they have removed the rig that sits at the top of that hole that sort of monitors the line. so i think what we re going to see there momentarily we re not controlling these pictures, by the way, which is why they change. that s the picture from the rig. that is the picture from the fenix, as it emerges with the 18th miner in it. you re going to see that break the surface at any moment now. you re watching the rescue of the 18th minor. esteban alfonso rojas carrizo. he is 44 years old. you ll see the top of the fenix rig. there it is. you are seeing a camera. there we go. there he is, 44-year-old esteban alfonso rojas carrizo, the 18th minor to be rescued, 44 years old, the carrier pigeon handler, testing the air quality in the mine. at this point, by the way, once they re trapped, there wasn t a whole lot he could do with that information. we don t know whatever happened to the carrier pigeons, but this is the man we know asked his wife to marry him.
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
miners. we actually got hung up in the roof bolts, the hardened roof bolts at the top of the roof as we were going in. and then we got hung up and stuck. and many people started clapping thinking we had finished. but we hadn t finished. and we were actually stuck. and then the last thing is, right before we finished, there was a loud explosion from the side of the rig. i thought that the air hose had blown. had the air hose blown, we would have lost the hole, and had to start over from square one. i don t know to this day exactly what that explosion was, but we were all looking at the gauges. we think now that it was some electrical connection for some of the video feed. but it fought us to the very last moment. i m going to talk when we come back about how you got through to that hole in the end and the role that those fantastic miners had in doing that. what you re seeing on the screen right now, by the way, are pictures from the hospital. so what happens is these miners come out,