1) What seismic activity has been registered at the mine in the last 7 days?
2) Is it possible to draw air out of each borehole with cadaver dogs present?

3) Could not the side walls be reinforced bolted into the ceiling and extend down on an angle (which would be much less likey to be forced in (as oppose d to straight up and down hydraulics? Just a thought from an ole country boy that never even took physics
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interesting thoughts steve. cadaver dogs ?? that would surely help in locating them. I pray that God will give us an answer we can all have peace with, evev though they are not my earthly family, I want to know too, Maybe just knowing will allow them families to make the excruciating choice to let them rest there , it does not matter where the mortal body is in the end. the spirit will be reunited. I still pray that they are alive. God has not closed heaven snd stopped giving us miracles or his spirit to comfort us. How much longer God???

When I read the phrase "filling up with water" it makes me wonder what destruction and oozing mud has occurred since the cave-in occurred and it is only now that sophisticated robotic equipment is being put into place to look into the post-traumatic tragedy. Where were the resources of this country when immediate rescue efforts were going on? It seems pretty late to discover what happened. How much of the evidence has been covered up under mountains of mud and ooze? With all the entertainment industry churning out how technologically advanced we are and how we can avoid arrmaggadon, it seems that we have a long way to go before NASA-like rescue efforts are available for the ordinary guy who face some of the most dangerous conditions in the world.

I don't think that anyone skimped on efforts to rescue these miners. This robot that everyone's talking about is an unproven, last-ditch "let's make sure we've tried everything before we give up" effort. It has never been used in mine rescues before - not at Sago, nor anywhere else.

If anyone is coming up short in their search for evidence that everything possible was done to save these men once disaster struck, they might look at the three tombstones which now stand over graves of rescuers.