Suddenly, there was a massive explosion and the passageways of the mine filled up with a gritty dust cloud. The disaster began on a day shift around lunchtime at a mine in Chile's Atacama Desert: Miners working deep inside a mountain, excavating for copper, gold and other minerals, started feeling vibrations. The Untold Story of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free, by Hector Tobar It offers an understanding of the families and personal histories that brought 'los 33' to the mine, and the mystical and spiritual elements that surrounded working in such a dangerous place. The result is a miraculous and emotionally textured account of the thirty-three men who came to think of the San José mine as a kind of coffin, as a 'cave' inflicting constant and thundering aural torment, and as a church where they sought redemption through prayer while the world watched from above. In Deep Down Dark, a master work by a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Héctor Tobar gains exclusive access to the miners and their stories. While we saw what transpired above ground during the grueling and protracted rescue, the story of the miners' experiences below the earth's surface-and the lives that led them there-hasn't been heard until now. Across the globe, we sat riveted to television and computer screens as journalists flocked to the Atacama desert.

When the San José mine collapsed outside of Copiapó, Chile, in August 2010, it trapped thirty-three miners beneath thousands of feet of rock for a record-breaking sixty-nine days. The exclusive, official story of the survival, faith, and family of Chile's thirty-three trapped miners.

Deep down dark by héctor tobar