SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Thirty-three Chilean miners trapped deep underground sent a message to the surface tied to a drill on Sunday, saying they were all alive in their first contact since a cave-in 17 days ago, but experts said it would take months to dig them out.
President Sebastian Pinera said the paper message was tied to a perforation drill that rescuers used to bore through to the area near an underground shelter, where the miners took shelter after the August 5 collapse at the small gold and copper mine in the far north.
"The 33 of us in the shelter are well," read the message written with red paint on the piece of paper that Pinera held up on television. Pinera has vowed a major overhaul of the mining regulator in the world's No.1 copper producer.
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Rescuers lowered a television camera down the bore-hole, and some of the miners looked into the lens. Some were bare-chested because of the heat in the mine, and officials said they looked in better-than-expected condition.
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