The first trapped miner came up out of the "shaft" -- actually a 24-inch diameter pipe -- at about 10:12 p.m. central standard time -- I forgot to check the time, I was so mesmerized by the live video. The link will probably be there as long as the rescue goes on, which could take as long as 36 hours, well into Wednesday morning. There were 33 miners trapped; now there are 32.
Press reports say that the rescuers expect to bring up one miner every hour. It takes the capsule about twenty minutes to bring a man up from the bottom of the mine where the miners are trapped to the surface.
