Sentence examples for escape shaft from inspiring English sources

On the other side of the drill tip was their escape shaft to the surface.

"There's always someone here now trying to see something," Mr. Brant said as roadside visitors in shorts intently aimed cameras at the capped escape shaft where nine trapped miners were rescued on July 28 after their three-day, watery siege deep underground.

"They are eager to come up," the governor noted, beaming at being able to declare the success of a frantic and complicated three-day digging operation to sink an escape shaft and to pump compressed air down to hold back the waters and feed the miners oxygen.

The 5 August accident at the copper and gold mine sealed the men beneath 700,000 tonnes of rock, a dungeon that in other earlier times would have spelt death and oblivion, but just over two months later a drill reached their refuge 622 metres below ground, providing a narrow escape shaft just wide enough for a man's shoulders.

They must now wait two to four months for engineers to drill an escape shaft.

With only a spoon, a handle from a knife, the lid of a sardine can and an iron bar from a bed, they began digging an escape shaft, covering the evidence during frequent cell inspections.

They also said there was no way down the main tunnel and that the specially designed escape shafts, supposed to work in such an eventuality, were either blocked or had collapsed.

Now it turned out they weren't hot, either, at making sure the ladders in the escape shafts went all the way to the top, or that the emergency rations box contained enough emergency rations.

With the best equipment and engineering money can buy, the Chilean government authorized the drilling of three separate escape shafts so as to maximize chances of reaching the men as quickly as possible.

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EIGHT DEAD IN MINE FIRE.; Seventy Others Escape Through Shaft in Ohio.