and we re back with live coverage, our continuing live coverage of the rescue of the miners in chile. you re watching tape of florencio avalos, the first miner to step out of the rescue capsule, hugging his wife, his 8-year-old son byron was at the site to welcome him. his son was overwhelmed with emotion, seeing his father step out of that capsule. the capsule is on its way back to the bottom of the mine carrying a second rescuer to the bottom of the mine. that is the capsule enter iing.
could see the condition of the rescued miner coming up. also the camera was focused on a monitor that was behind him. zephyr technologies from maryland had provided some equipment that would read the respiration, the skin temperature, the heart rate and that they would be looking at the camera showing that readout so that in the event that they were hearing one thing from the miner coming up, but they were seeing data that told them something else about his physical condition, they would be able to react. you are watching live msnbc coverage of the rescue of those 33 miners in chile. just minutes ago we saw a rescuer, a paramedic named manuel gonzalez descend more than 2,000 feet to be greeted by the miners. at the moment, florencio avalos, first miner to be rescued, has
that s roberto seguel. look at the men coming over to him. there we go. they re all gathering around. a little bit of a lag, as you see, in the live feed here as you can only imagine not perfect picture, but it s it shows you how excited they are and the anticipation and the arrival. that s what makes me think about exactly. it is like a man on the moon. taking his first steps. there we go. and mario sepulveda will be put in his special gear. they picked a perfect time to start the rescue operation. obviously, it helps that they can come out in darkness, but during the daylight, all of the
refeeding the miners and to avoid complications from what we call refeeding syndrome. but also how to do the fluid loading protocol so make sure they don t get low pressure during the ascent, which could have some dire consequences. that fluid loading protocol is the same one we use for the astronauts coming back from space, from the shuttle program or from the soyuz, the russian soyuz. there are a myriad of different recommendations that we used. recommendations on how to design the escape capsule as well. and it s very satisfying and gratifying to see this pay off. we re watching the second rescuer, roberto rios seguel. he ll be going in to get the rest of the mine toers the top. we re joined once again by blaine mayhugh and tom foy, they re survivors of the