this young mand holds a flag reading we wait for you, your family. a sentiment shared by the family members waiting anxiously at that mine. a clown stops by to help entertain those children waiting for their fathers. and help them forget, if at least for a moment, why they are at the mine in the first place. john, some incredible pictures there. and more incredible pictures to share with you. let s look at the rescue capsule. five men have been brought up from underground in roughly five hours since the operation began. this is something we haven t seen before. the rescue capsule has not been rushed back into surface. it has been studies, lubricated and maintained but the winch is not moving. the capsule is sitting aboveground. we are not sure why. our extensive coverage will continue right after this.
throw up on the way up. also as well, making sure that the miners don t get dizzy or faint. and they don t want any panic attacks either, larry. larry: how long will it take to come up? once the miner climbs into the phoenix rescue capsule, the ride up to the surface will take between 10 and 15 minutes. that s not where the story ends. rescue workers have to lower the capsule back down. the capsule will be coming back down under some gravity. that will take about 30 minutes to get down. the rescue workers estimate that it will take 10 or 15 minutes to get each miner settled into the rescue capsule to make sure he fully understands the escape system, the communication system, and also the surviving
capsule and also climatize himself and familiarize himself with the audio and video system, with the wide angle camera that gives him constant communication at the surface, and also familiarize himself with the oxygen mask and those kinds of systems. and then his ride from the mine shaft up to the top may take ten or 15 minutes. but that is when the pulleys will be cranking away. so let s say approximately one hour after the first rescuer goes down is when we could see the first of the 33 miners coming back to the surface, anderson. it looks in the video as if they re pulling the capsule back up. there had been some talk of them loading sandbags in very close from the mine, basically kind of measuring the weight of a miner, putting those sandbags in just to see the weight and let the operator of the capsule get a feel of what it feels like to have the weight of a human being inside that capsule. whether or not that s been done, we don t know. but it does look as if that capsule is on
first rescue worker, manuel gonzalez, taking some oxygen before getting into the phoenix capsule. his colleagues wishing him well, wishing him good luck, the president of chile wishing him that as well. colleagues saying, imagine you re at the beach, as they locked him into the capsule, placed him in the capsule and began lowering him. and as soon as he beganing to lowered into the ground, that say live picture right now in the nearby town of copiapo. residents singing the chilean national anthem. let s listen in for just a moment. the people in that square vowed to stay there until the last miner is brought out. let s watch.
half a mile down, they very quickly on the surface, the medics and the psychologists got together and decided that barrios was their man, andther jokingly called dr. house, referring to him. but carrying out daily or even twice daily survival signs of the miners and also the man who has been in charge of the making sure each miner was slim enough to fit into the rescue capsule, just 21 1/2 inches in diameter. it was also mr. barrios making