The New Yorker: "Sixty-Nine Days, The Ordeal of the Chilean Miners"

“I’m not embarrassed to say I cried, a lot, at that moment, thinking that I wouldn’t see my family again, and thinking of the suffering they would go through,” Reygadas said. He walked away from the others, in violation of a mining code that says you should never walk alone underground. The rules didn’t matter anymore. He followed the light of his lamp until he found a front loader like the one he operated. He sat inside the cab, but after a few minutes he remembered the moment of the collapse. Tons of rock fell on top of the miners, and yet “there wasn’t anyone who was hurt.” The improbable fact of their survival, he thought, carried a hint of the divine. He decided to go back to the Refuge, and to be a strong old man instead of a weak one. If it was all part of a plan by his Creator, maybe his prayers would reach the surface, and make the people who loved him strong, too, because they had to be suffering, out there in the night, wondering if he and thirty-two other men could still be alive.” (excerpt from an over 13,500 word piece)

Red face embarrassing rescues from around the globe

Germany: American student rescued from giant stone vagina

It took 22 firefighters to save the stuck student.

Scotland: Tourist rescued from Aonach Mor mountain in Scotland after attempting hike in thongs


“Well he had never seen snow before
so why not give it a go in yer bare feet and sandals!!!”

Washington Times: Pentagon knew Bergdahl’s whereabouts but didn’t risk rescue for ‘deserter’

The Pentagon on several occasions had ground-level intelligence on where ArmySgt. Bowe Bergdahl was being held captive at various times — down to how many gunmen were guarding him — but special operations commanders repeatedly shelved rescue missions because they didn’t want to risk casualties for a man they believed to be a “deserter,” sources familiar with the mission plans said.

Commanders on the ground debated whether to pull the trigger on a rescue several times in recent years, according to one of the sources, a former high-level intelligence official in Afghanistan, who said the conclusion each time was that the prospect of losing highly trained troops was too high a price to pay for rescuing a soldier who walked away from his unit before being captured by the enemy. (read more)

Starting to look like we traded 5 Taliban fighters for 1 Taliban fighter. http://t.co/a5Mp9hysxl
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) June 2, 2014

60 years later, video surfaces of WWII B-29 rescue

Originally reported by Denver 9News Nov. 11, 2010.

Harrowing. Hole blown in wing, lost two engines, bomb bay doors blown off. Plane ditched.

The plane was shot down under heavy flak seventy miles from the coast of Japan miraculously near to an American submarine. The entire crew was rescued. An officer aboard the sub captured the whole thing on film in color.

Two years previous to the Denver 9News report a copy of the film showed up at Denver resident Richard Vanden Huevel's front door. Apparently a son found it in the father's closet.The video clearly shows Vanden Huevel being rescued 60 years earlier when he was twenty years of age.

Strapping lad too.

I see a young kid who doesn't see fear," Vanden Huevel said.

We see that too. [The video share code from 9News is a mile long. It displays here but without an opening image. I do not trust it.]