Jopo said:
Take any bunch of miners ( or any manual workers) - from a relatively poor country -
isolate them for nigh on 70 days and be surprised if the preexisting medical problems they took in with them got worse.
Wonder how many were cured of some sort of addiction?
Imagine it was a bunch of cavers. A gate would have been fitted to the shaft and a committee formed in seconds.
All the bollocks aside it was a remarkably skilled and successfull rescue and the engineers should be congratulated.
It would be good if that side of the story was published.
Jopo
The addiction thing is probably true as they were, quite specifically, not supplied with either wine or tobacco
The engineers: the guy who controlled the tunnel, apparently an American, left before the first one came out as he didn't want to be part of the media party as they were rescued.
As for your point about cavers, perhaps we should ask if the rescue rig was covered by their PI insurance?