Rescued Chilean Miners Seeing the World Through Oakley-Donated Sunglasses
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Oct 13th 2010 3:44PM
Updated Oct 13th 2010 3:48PM
Family, rest, hot food -- and a really cool pair of shades. That's what a miner needs after being trapped underground for more than two months. Eyewear and sporting equipment maker Oakley is handling that last part: It has provided high-performance wraparound sunglasses to the 33 Chilean mine workers who were being pulled to the surface Wednesday after 69 days stuck almost a half-mile underground.
The miners, who are being lifted up to the surface one by one in a rescue vessel, were trapped on Aug. 5 by a collapse of 700,000 tons of rock.
As of early Wednesday afternoon, more than half of the workers had been pulled to the surface through a 2,000-foot-long rescue shaft.
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