Coronavirus crisis: world must unite to put lives first, as in Chilean mine and Thai cave rescues

In August 2010, a cave-in within the San José mine in Chile trapped 33 men 700 metres underground. Seventeen days after the accident, a note was found taped to a drill bit rescue teams pulled back to the surface. It said: “We are well in the shelter, the 33 of us.” Three separate drilling rig teams, nearly every Chilean government ministry, the Nasa space agency and a dozen corporations from around the world took part in the rescue effort. On October 13, the men were winched to the surface as…

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