tell, especially the family members who gathered and made a makeshift camping site above the mine, they can tell how much weight they lost, 20 pounds on average per miner and keep in mind before the bore hole was actually dug, and reveal all 33 were alive, they were living on two spoonfuls of tuna fish every other day and, they not only have the shelter room, about the size of an apartment, they also have 1.2 miles or two kilometers of other gallery and tunnel space, so they can walk around. and, initially after the mining accident, which trapped them in there, there was a ventilation shaft if they could ac if they had a ladder and it was supposed to be there but the mining company is yet to give a explanation as to why the ladder was not there and they theoretically could have escaped shortly after the accident and maybe, one, two, four months, maybe christmas time before they