it s pure black. anthony: they say that butte is a mile high and a mile deep, and to get an idea of what they mean you got to go down. down deep into the hill. an intricate warren of tunnels whittled through the rock and soil that lay beneath the city was flooded forever by water and darkness. the orphan boy mine is one of the few remaining hard rock mines in the city. today it serves as a training facility for the montana tech school of mines and engineering. jim keane: there s five generations of mining here. in order to survive and provide the resources for america, these people were super skillful. anthony: jim keane is a state senator and labor advocate who grew up working the mines of butte. how many miles of tunnel under butte total? jim keane: ten ten thousand miles of tunnel. anthony: ten thousand miles! jim keane: and i figured anthony: like this. larry: they are smaller
anthony: they say that butte is a mile high and a mile deep, and to get an idea of what they mean you got to go down. down deep into the hill. an intricate warren of tunnels whittled through the rock and soil that lay beneath the city was flooded forever by water and darkness. the orphan boy mine is one of the few remaining hard rock mines in the city. today it serves as a training facility for the montana tech school of mines and engineering. jim keane: there s five generations of mining here. in order to survive and provide the resources for america, these people were super skillful. anthony: jim keane is a state senator and labor advocate who grew up working the mines of butte. how many miles of tunnel under butte total? jim keane: ten ten thousand miles of tunnel. anthony: ten thousand miles! jim keane: and i figured anthony: like this. larry: they are smaller usually.
hole looks like, and the new drill was using that as a guide hole. what has happened now is that they have widened that hole, and they have made a 12-inch hole. a 12-inch hole, just to put it in perspective, looks like that. that is a 12-inch diameter. that is the size of the hole that is now drilled down, half a mile deep, to where the miners are, but, of course, not big enough to get out of. the challenge now is that you ve got to build to drill another hole you ve got to widen this existing hole to that kind of diameter, so that these miners can actually get out. this is about 24 to 26 inches. it s still going to be a squeeze for some of those miners, but this is the challenge, to widen that hole now, from 12 inches to 26 inches. and that is what is going to take some more time. talking to brandon fish e the head of the center rock drilling company, he wouldn t put a figure on it. he says, no, you can t put a
they re proud to be chilean, and even prouder to be miners. you can see things down here have changed he says. in this new video sent to the surface mine mario sepulveda goes through the cabin half a mile deep, showing how he and his 32 comrades are holding up. since rescuers found the men alive ten days ago, survival rations have been delivered by narrow bore holes. these metal tubes, miners are getting flood, water, medicine, clean clothes and even music on mp3 players. the music has arrived, and we re organizing today s party. we re super happy and we ve been dancing to a couple songs, he says. off camera, a miner could be heard joking.
we know and we have the green light now to proceed with the well integrity test. so, they have stopped collecting, i guess this means that they have stopped collecting oil on the top, is that right? yes. they have stopped the ships that were sucking the oil from down below through very long pipes, a mile deep, all of the way down to the bottom of the blowout preventer, and they had attached lines, hoses, if you will to the blowout preventer, and to the choke and the kill valves down below and sucking the oil to the top and not letting it go into the ocean. clearly some coming out of the top and some was collected by the old cap, and so when that cap went, it went unabated, but they not bringing that oil out anymore which means they have closed those valves complete i, and they will shut this valve completely and pressurize the system and see if it holds. we will be watching the whole