2010: Two Months Underground
On October 13th, 2010, the last of 33 miners who were trapped almost half a mile underground for more than two months were rescued. The miners had been stuck in the caved-in northern Chile mine and had broken the record of the most prolonged underground human survival in history. The mine caved in on August 5th, 2010 leaving 33 men trapped 5 kilometers (3 miles) from the entrance of the mine.
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It took 69 days for all the minors to be rescued. The operation to bring out the miners, on a 14-foot shaft literally dug into the ground, took 24 hours from beginning to end, and the whole world was watching and praying for their safe return home.