Another hole to find Utah minors by Ioana Madalina Tantareanu

The six missing miners were not found yet, although a camera was lowered into a collapsed coal mine. It was revealed the equipment and officials planned to drill yet another hole in a desperate hope of finding signs of life nearly a week after a thunderous cave-in. The camera could only see about 15 feet into the space where they hoped to find the men because of the poor lightning. The camera showed only a tool bag, a chain and other equipment, said Richard Stickler, head of the Mine Safety and Health Administration. He also said they will repeat this but with an improved lighting system which should allow the camera to see 100 feet. The authorities said they were proceeding as if the miners were alive. Stickler said "Our attitude is we always have to have hope, and our position is that we're hoping and we're praying and it would be a terrible mistake to give up hope until you know for sure." Bob Murray, head of Murray Energy Corp., co-owner of the mine, said the new hole will target an area that the miners would have gone if air in their original location was bad. Stickler would not estimate how long it would take to drill the new hole. Murray initially estimated three to four days, but his vice president, Rob Moore, said quietly to him during a news conference that it could be up to six days. Refering to the miners' relatives, Councilwoman Julie Jones said, "They are one family." Mike Marasco, son-in-law of missing miner Kerry Allred, said his family has been sleeping on the floor of the school where families were gathering to somehow try to identify with their father's discomfort inside the mine."It's hard to just sit here. We want to feel what he felt. We've been sleeping on the floor ... it's not even close to being in the mine but it's something." No one knows for sure what caused the collapse, but Murray insisted that an earthquake caused it, although seismologists said there was no earthquake and that readings on seismometers actually came from the collapse.

by Ioana Madalina Tantareanu for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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