Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Min and the Miracle That Set Them Free

Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine and the Miracle That Set Them Free by Hector Tobar, 309 pages.
In August, 2010, the San Jose mine collapsed. Located in the Atacama Desert, outside of Copiapo, Chile, the San Juan was a copper mine with a history of safety problems. Tobar, author of the 2011 novel The Barbarian Nurseries, tells the story of the 33 men trapped when a diorite "mega-block,"a piece of the mountain as big as a forty-five story building, falls through layers of the mine, trapping the men under thousands of feet of rock and earth. From August 5 through August 22 the miners dealt with the dwindling hope
that they could even be located by rescuers. Those trying to reach them from the surface had no idea that there were survivors. Once the men were located and hope surged, the nation of Chile, and rescuers from around the world scrambled to try and keep them alive and bring the 33 back to the surface. A great read.