Comments about ‘Fourth bore hole yields no clues on fate of six missing miners’

I am so sad for the miners families and the communities of Carbon and Emery. I was really hoping that this bore hole would show something- anything! How disappointing. What next?

I find it sloppy that with all the technology in America such as modern underground communications in submarines and in space, ,miners are reduced to 1920's morse code banging on a roof bolts. America has Concrete Pre-fab Blast Walls that they use in the Military but they won't use these blast walls in Mine Rescue. America has HDD Ductile Iron Pipe Caseing Horizonal Drilling that could have put a 36" tunnel through the mine. New york City ran almost 800 Feet of Ductile Pipe using HDD Technology and holds the record in HDD Technology. Sure it will cost Earthquake Bob some greenbacks but what is the price of a miners life? I often feel sorry for Miners trapped in third world countries of poverty because they don't have modern technology, but how sad we in America have the technology but the Mine Owners refuse to spend the money for this rescue technology. I've watched this country go from greatness to a Country I hardly even know any more since my birth of 1959. Americans never changed, Our Government changed. Coporate Greed & Government Corruption in a Joint Venture Changed America. We are back to same Coal Wars of the 1920's we fought with the Government and Coal Owners in West Virginia.

My heart absolutely breaks for the miners and their families - those who have loved and lost and those who love but 'just don't know'. I pray for you all, keep the faith and stay strong. Miracles do happen. And to the incredibly wonderful tenacity of the rescue workers - may you find the strength to carry on if you are allowed to. You are fantastic men, you are fantastic friends to your lost brothers, and please don't stop the bore hole drilling. God bless you all always - you will never stand alone.

Are the rescuers leaving the microphones in each of the caverns they have already reached? If a miner could move around, there is a chance that he might move into one of those caverns and the rescuers would never know it.

Hogan is right. What did our fathers and grandfathers fight the working man's fight for? To let Bob Murray buy his way out of safety regulations at his "non-union" mine (as he so proudly proclaims)? Donating his way way with campaign contributions to be able to hire untrained, desparate (many illegal) workers for $8.00/hr to make him as rich and as self rightous as a person could be? Looks that way. Sorry Grandpa. The Utah Media won't touch the real stories that made this story unfold the way it did. We've gone back decades in worker safety and fairness. Exploit is the new best friend of the rich and powerful. But no one wants to talk about it. Why won't Murray let any employee talk, what is this, China?

I'm not trying to sound overly negative here, but I think it may be time to start considering the possibility that the six men won't ever be found. Based on the fact that no sign of life has ever been detected from inside the blocked-off area, I think it's highly likely the men were buried by coal and rock right at the beginning (just like the injured and dead rescuers were buried in the second incident). If that's the case, these six original victims are very likely already in their final resting place. The mine is not safe to go in underground, and the hole-boring approach being employed is "needle in a haystack" at best. The sheer size of the tunnel and the vast amount of debris and rock involved seems to preclude the possibility of any sort of recovery. Maybe cadaver-sniffing dogs could pick up a scent from either something brought up from the boreholes, or from down inside the mine. But even that appears to be a long shot. I'm terribly sorry for the tremendous loss that these miners' families have suffered, and hope that they are comforted in the fact that people across the entire state of Utah as well as the nation have endured their pain along with them, and have shared in their frustration and sorrow over the past two weeks. I'm still holding out a slim bit of home for some positive news from the mine, but I think that grim reality is finally starting to sink in for me, as well as for many others. God bless the miners and the brave souls who have fought so valiantly in the effort, no matter how futile.

Oops. I meant "a slim bit of HOPE".

If you really want to know how our Government is connected to the Coal Mine Industry, Go to google.com and search "Mines Wars of West Virginia" Is Bob Murray connected tightly to the Republican Party and Tricky Dick Cheney? You bet Earthquake Bob has been in Dick Cheney's Office in the 2001 Secret Emergy Task Force Meetings and they weren't talkin Mine Safety. I blame mostly the Media Press for the failure to resume the Earthquake Rescue. The Media Press played a very important part in Katrina Hurricane Rescue when the government was Lazy.The Bush Cabinet and Congress watch how "hot" the Media is on a subject and if the Media goes "full coverage" on a subject the Government reacts.If I was a 2008 Presidential Candidate, I would be at that Utah Mine talking to everyday Americans. It's Free Press for the Candidate. The Press should have questioned the the slow response

what Bob Hogan wrote, well said!!