Trapped For 69 Days Underground

In August of 2010, a mine collapse in Chile trapped a group of 33 miners.  Against all odds and expectations, all 33 were rescued sixty-nine days after the start of their ordeal.

Agreeing only to tell their story collectively, the group chose Hector Tobar, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and novelist, to be the one they told their story through.

The story covers a story never told before - the men's lives before the collapse, the initial seventeen days when no-one on the surface knew if there were any survivors, the long waiting period of waiting for an opening large enough to allow their release and finally the aftermath as they re-adjusted to life above ground.

In Deep Down Dark, Tobar has used personal interviews with the miners and their families, the diary of one of the miners (Victor Segovia), the cellphone videos from the phone of another miner (Jose Henriquez), video from the Chilean government and more and combined them into an intense story of endurance and ultimately, of survival.