(6 Oct 2010)
1. Wide of trucks transporting capsules that will be used to rescue the miners
2. Mid of a wooden box carrying one of the capsules, on a truck
3. Various of trucks carrying capsules driving into the mine site
4. Various of truck carrying a crane into the mine site
5. Mid of trapped miners' families cheering
6. Truck transporting heavy machinery into the site
7. Mid of trapped miners' families cheering
8. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Liliane Ramirez, relative of trapped miner:
"We are happy because since the arrival of these cages, and we are very close (to rescuing the miners), closer than we can imagine."
9. Various of trucks carrying cranes and heavy equipment into the mine site
10. Wide of mine site; vehicles lined up
11. Various of miners' families walking at the site
12. Family camped at the mine site
13. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Andre Sougarret, Rescue Chief:
"We still have to go 100 metres (328 feet). It's a difficult phase, as we said before, because we are entering a fault line, we have to go through this complicated zone, therefore it is premature to speak about Saturday."
14. Various of drilling rigs at mine site
15. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Andre Sougarret, Rescue Chief:
"We are still keeping with the second week of October. We are going to be monitoring the situation day by day to make a better projection."
16. Various of rescue workers, who will participate in rescue operations, posing for photo
17. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Rene Aguilar, Deputy Rescue Chief:
"They (the rescue team) started to train as a group yesterday afternoon and they worked with the equipment we will be using in the rescue. And in the next few days, they will be testing the cage, and inserting the cage into the tube that we put aside for testing purposes. They will also be testing the communication equipment that will be installed in the rescue cage which will be the final job."
18. Rescue workers walking away
STORYLINE:
Family members of the 33 trapped Chilean miners greeted trucks carrying cranes and capsules on Wednesday that they hope will ultimately rescue their loved one at the San Jose mine.
On Tuesday, families marked the end of the second month since the miners went missing on August 5.
Expectations have been high amongst the families that a rescue is only a matter of days away, after the country's president said this week that his government was close to pulling the trapped miners to safety.
Sebastian Pinera said hoped to be there in person to see the rescue before leaving on a trip to Europe on October 17.
However on Wednesday, Andre Sougarret, who is heading up the rescue effort, tried to play down the expectations that there rescue was imminent - as some had suggested as early as Saturday.
Sougarret said in a news conference that the operators had to go through another 100 metres (328 feet) to reach the men, but that they were entering a fault line, which made this next phase of the drilling complicated.
But Sougarret said they were "still sticking with the second week of October" timeline to save the miners.
The government had originally said they hoped to get them out by late December when the 33 miners were first found alive on 22 August.
Officials also presented a team of workers who will participate in the rescue operations.
Rene Aguilar, the deputy head of the rescue operation, said that in the next few days the rescue workers would start training with the cages that were expected to be brought to the site later on Wednesday, which will be used to bring the miners out.
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