Starting at midnight and sometimes as fast as once every 40 minutes, the men entered the cage slender nearly a half mile underground and create a smooth ascent to fresh air. By day, more than half of men - 17 of 33 - have been rescued.
In a carefully planned operation, they are monitored by video on the way up to a sign of panic. Their oxygen masks, dark glasses to protect their eyes from the daylight is not known and sweaters to climate change rumbling, subterranean swelter in the air chillier above.
They emerged looking healthier than many expected and even clean-shaven, and at least one, Mario Sepulveda, the second for the sense of freedom, jumped out and thrusting fists up like a prizefighter.
"I thought I had incredible luck. I am with God and with the devil And I reached out to God.," He said while waiting for the air force helicopter ride to a nearby hospital where all the miners are to spend 48 hours under medical observation .
Operation move past the midpoint to rescue 17 miners, an electrician who 56-year-old named Omar Reygadas who helped organized the underground life. His fourth great-grandchild was born one month after the people were sealed into the mine reaches down by the collapse of August 5 of 700,000 tons of rock.
Due to travel down and up, down and up, the rescue capsule that does not spin as much as in the shaft 2041 feet away as officials expected, allowing for faster travel, and officials said the operation could be completed by sunrise Thursday, if not quickly .
Anxiety that accompany the final days of preparation heartbreak at 12:11 am, with the first rescue - Florencio Avalos, who emerged from the space missile-like and smiled broadly after traveling half a mile. He hugged his sobbing children 7 years and my wife and then President Sebastian Pinera, who had been involved in the effort that has become a national pride.
Avalos followed one hour later by the most enthusiastic group, Sepulveda, who heard screams even before the capsule peek above the surface. He hugged his wife and handed souvenir stone from the mine to rescue laugh.
Nobody in history has survived throughout trapped underground as 33 men. During the first 17 days, no one knew whether they were alive. In the following weeks, the world is captivated by the endurance and unity.
Health Minister Jaime Manalich said in a press conference after eight miners rescued that they are all in good health, and do not have any required special medication, diabetes was not even among them.
Chile erupted in joy and relief at the rescue, the first breakthrough just after midnight in the coastal Atacama desert.
In the capital, Santiago, a hustle and bustle of a car horn sounded. In the capital area near Copiapo, where 24 of the miners of the hail, the mayor canceled school so parents and children can "watch the rescue in the warmth of home."
News channel from North America to Europe and the Middle East carry live coverage. Pope Benedict XVI said in Spanish that he "continues with the hope to trust the goodness of God" the fate of men. Iran's Press TV English-speaking countries following the live event until President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad landed in Lebanon in the first state visit there.
Images beamed around the world remarkable: from below the earth's rough footage shows each miner climbed into the capsule 13-foot-high, and then disappeared up through the cracks. Then the camera shows the pod continued to rise through the tunnel, smooth-walled dark.
After the five miners make his ascent - 19 years Jimmy Sanchez, the youngest and the father of month-old baby - a rescue stop to lubricate the wheels of the spring which provides smooth ride capsule through the shaft, then proceed to save.
Ninth, Mario Gomez, who at 63 is the oldest miners, his knees after he appeared, bowed his head in prayer and clutching the flag of Chile. His wife, Liliane Ramirez, pulled from the ground and hugged him.
Gomez is the most experienced group, the first entry funnel for labor at the age of 12 years, and suffered from silicosis, a lung disease common to the miners. He has been on antibiotics and bronchial inflammation. Manalich said Gomez came up with a special oxygen mask.
The only foreigner among the miners, Carlos Mamani Bolivia, visited at a nearby clinic by Pinera and Bolivian President Evo Morales. miners could be heard saying how pleased the president of Chile was to breathe fresh air and see stars.
Most of the clean-shaven man appeared. Crews have been lowered a package called "palomas," Spanish for a carrier pigeon, to get food and medicine to the people during the week they are underground, and in the days before their rescue sent a razor and shaving cream.
The entire rescue operation carefully choreographed, with no expense spared in bringing topflight drillers and equipment - and boring three separate holes into the copper and gold mine.
Mining is the lifeblood of Chile, providing 40 percent of state revenues, and Pinera placing mines minister and chief operating state-owned Codelco, the largest state company, which is responsible for the rescue.
It went so well that managers have abandoned what legions of reporters considered ultraconservative plan to restrict the rescue image. Chilean flag of the obscure hole from view moved to the side so that hundreds of cameras perched on a hill above can record images that state TV also eat live.
Which includes surreal moment when the capsule fell for the first time into the room, where bare-chested miners, most stripped down to shorts for hot underground, surrounded by the savior who appears to serve as guide them to freedom.
"Rescue operation was so extraordinary, so clean, so emotional there is no reason to disallow the eyes of the world - who have watched this operation very closely - to see it," said a beaming Pinera in a press conference after Avalos brought to the surface.
Avalos, the second 31 years-in-command of the miners, was selected will be out first because he is in the best condition. When the capsule out of the hole-hole size, Avalos stepped out as the audience cheered, clapped his hands and broke into chants the name of the country - "!! Chi Chi Chi Le Le Le"
The next three people out, including Bolivia Mamani, followed because they are considered the strongest of body and mind. 10 to follow the miners came with health problems like high blood pressure, diabetes and skin ulcers.
The operation began just before midnight, when a rescue Codelco made the sign of the cross and revealed to the people trapped. A Navy paramedic came down after Avalos - an improvised surprises as officials have said the two would come down to watch the climb miners' before the first ride.
Last miner is scheduled to shift foreman Luis Urzua, whose leadership is credited with helping people survive the first two weeks and a half without any outside contacts. People making $ 48 an hour last rations before rescuers reached them with narrow bore hole to send down more food.
Janette Marin, brother-in-law of miner Dario Segovia, said the rescue sequence is not important.
"This will not succeed unless they all get out," he said.
Chilean officials play down the risk of rescue.
Panic attacks during the ascent, they say, is the biggest worry. The miners are not drugged - they need to be vigilant in case gone awry. Manalich said rescuers could accelerate the capsule to a maximum speed of 3 meters per second if necessary.
Rescue coordinator Andre Sougarett told The Associated Press beforehand that the worst technical problem of the possibility that "rock fall" and jam a capsule in the shaft.
But Davitt McAteer, who directed the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration during the Clinton administration, said there were a lot of risk: A miner can get jam packed and somehow capsules, wires can be hung up, or pull cord rig can be too hot.
"You can be good and you can be lucky and they're good and lucky.," McAteer said the AP before the operation began. "Knock on wood that this luck holds out for 33 hours."
CEO of Austrian company that makes capsules winch and pulley system says there is no danger of overheating the motor because the winch was not working under maximum capacity.
Minister of Mines Laurence Golborne, that crisis management has made it a media star in Chile, insisted all the risks have been considered.
"No need to try to begin to guess what could be wrong. We have done the job," said Golborne. "We have hundreds of different contingencies."
McAteer said he gave "very high marks" to Chile to create lower expectations by saying that it might take until Christmas to save people - and then consistently producing ahead of schedule.
"Secondly, they have very little technical problem," he said.
Three rescue capsule built by the engineers of the Chilean navy, called the Phoenix for the mythical bird that rises from the ashes and painted with white, blue and red national flag. Only one has been used in the rescue.
vital signs Miners' which is closely monitored throughout the journey. They were given high-calorie liquid food donated by NASA, designed to prevent nausea from round capsule as it travels through a curve in the escape hole 28-inch-diameter.
Steel piping engineer inserted at the top of the shaft, which is angled 11 degrees from vertical before the waterfall like a waterfall.
Drillers have to curve the shaft through the rock "virgin", barely avoiding the collapse and open spaces underground in the mines are exploited, which has been operating since 1885.
At the regional hospital in Copiapo, two floors had been prepared for the miners to be evaluated.
President Barack Obama praised the rescuers, including a team from the Center Rock Inc. of Berlin, Pa., which builds and manages the piston-driven hammers pounded open hole.
Chile has promised that concern the miners would not end for six months at least - not until they can be sure that each miner has been reviewed.
Psychiatrists and other experts in predicting extreme survival situation they will be anything but normal.
Since 22 August, when a narrow hole drilled through for their protection and miners shocked the world with a note, written in red ink, expressing their survival, their family has been exposed in ways they never imagined.
Miners have to explain the physical and mental health in detail by a team of doctors and psychologists. In some cases, when both wife and lover claimed the same person, everyone involved must face the consequences.
At the time they tried to have underground, the miners are now facing the challenge so confusing that no amount of training can fully prepare them. Rejoin the world is very curious about their suffering, they have been invited to the presidential palace, taking all-expenses-paid holiday and appeared in television shows countless.
Books and movies that pending transaction, along with job offers. Previously unimaginable riches awaiting a simple signature for those who are intelligent.
Sepulveda performance out of the shaft appears to confirm what many Chileans thought when they saw the show involved in the video that is sent from the ground - that he could have a future as a TV personality.
But he tried to cancel the idea while talking with Chile's state television channel viewers while sitting with his wife and children shortly after his rescue.
"The only thing I would ask you is that you do not treat me as an artist or a journalist, but as a miner," he said. "I was born miner and I'll be dead miners."
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