The rescue has exceeded expectations in every phase of the road. Authorities said the first was four months before the man could pull out, there were about 69 days and 8 hours.
Once the last escape tunnel was ready, is estimated at 36-48 hours for all the miners to the surface. That was even faster than with surgery, and all the miners were safely on the ground in 22 hours, 37 minutes.
The audience at "Camp Hope", a hill joined the exodus of confetti, balloons and champagne spray Urzúa released capsule showed a sharp mind to enter the mining industry. In the capital, Santiago, hundreds gather at the Plaza Italy, waving flags and shouting slogans to win in honor of the miners.
Near Copiapo, about 3,000 people in the streets, where a large cloth collected live recordings to save. The abundant waved Chilean flags in all sizes and in red vuvuzelas blew car horns drove around the square, their drivers shouting: "Viva Chile"
"The miners are our heroes," he said in tears by residents Copiapo Maria Guzman, 45
One by one all day had been raised about the men to the cheers of the exuberant Chilean and eyes of an enchanted world. During the gathering pace during the day, every man of the mountain with the same loud applause greeted the rescuers.
"Welcome to life," said Victor Segovia Piñera, 15 Miner. In a day of superlatives, it seemed an exaggeration.
They said the world is a great curiosity about his experience and offer some fame and employment. unimaginable wealth of men waiting for their lives at risk and the volatility of the copper gold mine for about $ 1,600 per LUN
Miners should be smooth inside the capsule Phoenix - 13 meters, just wider than the shoulders and painted white, blue and red flag of Chile. It 'was a door that sometimes freezes, and a number of wheels had to be replaced, but it worked exactly as expected.
From midnight on Tuesday, and sometimes faster than every 25 minutes, the gondola of nearly half a mile away, as 700,000 tons of rock collapsed and buried the men on August 5.
Then, after a quick chat rescuers descended into the well of a mountain to climb, work, travel and come from a manhole in a blinding light.
The rescue was planned with great care. The miners were followed by video of how you as a sign of panic. Stew had oxygen masks, dark glasses, eyes and sweaters for the transition from underground to protect the tremors, the fresh air of the desert.
As they approached the surface, a camera above the capsule showed a bright white color piercing the darkness has not denied that the accident survivors describe what, if near-death experiences.
The miners were to look healthier than many expected and even shaving. Several raised their fists as department stores, and Mario Sepulveda, after the second taste of freedom is limited, and rescuers said an enthusiastic applause. Franklin Lobos, who played for the Chilean national team in 1980, only one ball at his feet and knees.
"We prayed for San Lorenzo, the patron saint of miners, and many other saints, he would come when my brothers Florencio and Renan, to mine. It 's like being born again," said Priscilla Avalos. One of his brothers were rescued by a man of the mountain on the one hand, and another one on Wednesday night.
Health Minister Jaime Manalich said some of the miners are likely to be able to leave hospital on Thursday - ahead of schedule - but many could not sleep, I wanted to speak with the families and loved. One was hospitalized, and requires two dental work.
"I'm not ready to rest for a moment, the last of his colleagues," he said.
Go there and go up, down and up, the escape pod, instead of running in expected wave of refugees, as civil servants, making travel faster.
The first man was Florencio Avalos, such as the Chamber of the rocket and hugged her crying son of 7 years, his wife and the President of Chile
No one in history has survived for so long trapped underground. During the first 17 days, no one knew if they were alive. In the following weeks, the world was amazed by his perseverance and unity.
news channels in North America to Europe and the Middle East carried out in direct rescue. Pope Benedict XVI in Spanish, which "continues to draw hope from the goodness of God," the fate of men. Iran's state Press TV in English, followed by live events for some time. The crews from Russia, Japan and North Korea state TV were in the mine.
The images beamed around the world were very different boxes stationed granular material every man went to the plate, then disappear into a hole.
The first was the youngest miner rescued, Jimmy Sanchez, father of a child of 19 months. Two hours later, the elder, Mario Gomez, 63, who suffers from pulmonary disease and antibiotics common in miners in the mine. He fell to his knees after his arrival with his head bowed in prayer, holding the flag of Chile.
Gómez Ramírez Lilianett woman on the ground and hugged him. The couple had already talked about the video a week, and they said he repeated the promise he made in his first letter to me he would marry in a church wedding, right, the honeymoon is never followed.
The only unknown among them, Carlos Mamani, Bolivia, visited a nearby hospital by Pinera and Bolivian President Evo Morales. The miner was heard, the leader of Chile said that it was funny to breathe the fresh air and watch the stars.
Most of the men appeared beard. More than 300 people in the mine was just to save or preserve their long wait for the reduction of missile-shaped tubes called "Paloma" Spanish for dove working. Along with food and medicine has come a razor and shaving cream.
Estimates for saving increased only $ 22,000,000, although the government has repeatedly insisted that the money was not a problem.
The men were in good health. But the hospital in Copiapo, where the man fell from the mountain Bergmann of the ambulance in a wheelchair waiting, it became clear that mental health may be as important as physical treatment.
Swett said Dr. Guillermo Sepulveda spoke of a 'battle with the devil "was in the mine. He said Sanchez seems to have a hard time and seemed depressed.
"He spoke very little and seems to come," said the doctor.
The rescue operation was all carefully planned. No expense has been spared for the introduction of exercises and Accessories Topflight - three separate and boring holes in copper and gold mines. Only one was completed - the left, so the miners.
mining in Chile is the heart and provides 40 percent of government revenue and put Piñera and Mining Minister responsible for rescue operations at Codelco chief.
It 'was so good that the operator, abandoned a plan to restrict images of the rescue. A large Chilean flag, cover the hole of view, was reserved for the hundreds of cameras that are on a hill above the photos, the moves of State can capture live video.
These include the surreal moment when the capsule was the first time in the room where the miners were bare-chested, pants pulled most of its heat into the ground, assailed the rescuer who acts as the leader of freedom.
"The rescue was so beautiful, so beautiful, so emotional, there's no reason not to allow the eyes of the world - see what this so close - to see," said a smiling Pinera in a press conference after the Mountain Man first appearance of security.
The miners were closely monitoring vital signs while driving. They were a liquid diet high in calories by NASA shows designed to prevent the nausea that every revolution of the capsule, while traveling through the curves on the choice of flight 28 inches in diameter.
Engineers steel tubes inserted at the top of the structure, which was bent 11 degrees vertically before it like a waterfall. Devices Ash virgin rock, just escaped the collapse areas and open spaces in the underground mine exploitation, which has operated since 1885 to spend the bending.
President Barack Obama said the bailout was "inspired by the world." Crews were many Americans, including a drill operator, to Denver and a team of Rock Center Inc. of Berlin, New York, which manages the hammer piston to hit the hole in the rock laced with quartz, some of the hardest rocks and abrasives .
Chile has promised that his concern is not the mountain people for at least six months to the end - not until you can be sure that everyone has adapted.
Psychiatrists and other experts in order to survive in extreme situations to predict their lives are anything but normal. Since August 22 when he broke a small hole through the resort in the mountains and the people around the world have been caught with a note scrawled in red ink, the disclosure of its existence, had their families in ways they never thought exposed .
The miners had their physical and mental health in great detail with the teams of doctors and psychologists. In some cases, if both spouses and lovers of the same man claimed that all parties had to face the consequences.
Try to turn the subway, the challenges of data mining are so confused that no amount of training prepared. The installation of a world were invited to an intense curiosity about his experience that the presidential palaces, all expenses paid holiday falls and numerous television programs. Book and film are outstanding, and job offers.
Sepúlveda wave power seemed to confirm what many Chileans thought when his riveting performance video uploaded seen from below - has a future as a television personality.
However, he tried to pick up the idea while working on state television viewers in Chile, said during the session with his wife and children shortly after their rescue.
"All I ask is that they treat me as an artist or journalist, but as a man of the mountains," he said. "I was born a coal miner, a miner and die."