They’re So Close. Keep Your Fingers Crossed…

From The Australian’s Web site tomorrow:
Back to basics in final push to rescue pair:

“The last few hours of the Beaconsfield mine rescue will be an intimate, claustrophobic and almost archaic affair.

“Most likely armed with no more than a pick or small hand-held drill, a single miner working in a hole only 1m in diameter will have the job of safely breaking through the final metre of earth and rock separating him from his entombed workmates, Todd Russell and Brant Webb.…”