In 2010, 33 miners survived 69 days trapped roughly 700 meters underground after the San Jose copper-gold mine near Copiapo collapsed, with all brought to the surface alive by October 13, 2010. Their rescue, watched by an estimated global television audience of over a billion people, is considered the longest survival of trapped miners on record.
Record no. MRB-2026-005903
Longest Survival Trapped Underground
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