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 BEACONSFIELD, Australia (AP) - Two Australian miners trapped for more than a week in a tiny cage more than a half mile underground were given iPods Wednesday to help them while away the hours as rescuers prepared to start drilling them an escape tunnel.
Brant Webb, 37, and Todd Russell, 34, were trapped April 25 in a Tasmania gold mine by a cave-in that killed another miner following a small earthquake. The two miners apparently were saved by a slab of rock that fell onto the cage of the cherry-picker they were working in.
Rescuers were to start boring toward them later Wednesday when eight truckloads of concrete that is being used to anchor a huge drill has dried. Drilling is expected to take two days.
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