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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Stilfontein, South Africa – 16 January 2025
1. Wide shot of mine rescue workers pulling the cage from a shaft in Stilfontein
2. Medium shot of mine rescue workers removing chains strapped on the cage
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Carltonville, South Africa – 21 January 2025
3. Wide of Mannas Fourie entering the cage used to resurface illegal miners
4. Close of Mannas Fourie inspecting the camera attached on the cage
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Mannas Fourie CEO of Mine Rescue Services South Africa:
“The cage has been developed to transport 6 people at that depth. Being the reason is that at that depth, you can only load a certain amount of weight. Being working at 1,280m enabled us to load more people into the conveyance because there’s less rope weight which is being pulled by the machine. And for that reason, we then pushed to load as many people as we could, and it was nice to see that we could load 13 people. It made it so much quicker to get the people out.”
6. Wide shot of trainees at the Mine Rescue entering a mock-up shaft for training
7. Close up of a mine rescue instructor assisting the trainees to gear up
8. Close up of a a trainee in a face mask.
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Mannas Fourie CEO of Mine Rescue Services South Africa:
“It took us around about between 40 to 45 minutes going down, loading people and offloading people on one trip. And at every one trip we then delivered 12 to 13 people alive, and if we had to bring out bodies, we brought out like 10 bodies at a time.”
10. Wide of trainees entering the mock-up shaft withsmoke coming out
11. Close up of a a trainee’s gear from the back.
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Mannas Fourie CEO of Mine Rescue Services South Africa:
“So what we saw when we stopped on the landing of where they had to climb into the cage, we just saw positive people that were eager to get into the cage and to come out. It was actually stated by the volunteers that assisted us that their biggest concern being there is to control the crowd, because everybody wants to come in immediately and the guys are eager. We could see as they climbed into the cage, they made way for each other to get as many people in at one time. So it was quite positive, seeing them coming into the cage and coming out.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Stillfontein, South Africa – 16 January 2025
13 .Wide of mine rescue workers inspecting the cage from the surface.
14. Close up of mine rescue workers inspecting the footage from the cage.
15. Wide of mine rescue workers and cage
STORYLINE:
A specialized mine rescue camera was lowered late last year into an almost 2.6-kilometer (1.6-mile) deep mineshaft in South Africa, where hundreds of illegal miners were reported to be trapped, starving, dehydrated and desperate to get out.
With no architectural plans of the actual mineshaft and its levels and tunnels, the camera reached 1,280 meters (4,200 feet) underground and gave rescuers their first visuals: A large group of illegal miners is seen standing around on a level, clearly waiting for help to arrive.
Rescuers brought the camera back to the surface and then sent it back underground, this time with a notepad, pen and a letter attached to initiate communication with the miners.
Once it reached them, the miners immediately also attached a note telling the rescuers that about 480 of them were underground and those still alive were desperate to exit the mine.
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