Chile Rescue Equipment (?)

[ABM]

(sent to me by a friend. Unverifiable via Snopes.)

Schramm Inc. of West Chester, Pennsylvania built the drills and equipment used to reach the trapped miners.

Center Rock Company, also from Pennsylvania, built the drill bits used to reach the miners.

UPS, the US shipping company, delivered the 13-ton drilling equipment from Pennsylvania to Chile in less than 48 hours.

Crews from Layne Christensen Company of Wichita Kansas and its subsidiary Geotec Boyles Bros. worked the drills and machinery to locate and reach the miners and then enlarge the holes to ultimately rescue them.

Jeff Hart of Denver Colorado was called off his job drilling water wells for the U.S. Army's forward operating bases in Afghanistan to lead the drilling crew that reached the miners.

Atlas Copco Construction Mining Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin provided consulting on how to make drilling equipment from different sources work together under differing pressure specifications.

Aries Central California Video of Fresno California designed the special cameras that were lowered nearly a mile into the ground sending back video of the miners.

Zephyr Technologies of Annapolis Maryland, made the remote monitors of vital signs that miners will wear during their ascent.

NASA Engineers designed the "Phoenix" capsule that miners would be brought to the surface in, and provided medical consulting, special diets and spandex suits to maintain miners' blood pressure as they're brought back to the surface.

Oh, and Candadian-based Precision Drilling Corp. and South-African company Murray & Roberts, drilled a backup rescue shafts in case the American rig failed. Which it didn't.

 

[agoo]

There was a thing on PBS last night that I was watching that was about the rescue. NASA consulted on the Phoenix capsule and the drilling company that reached them was from PA. The two backup rescue shafts weren't presented as backup shafts. It appeared that they were racing because they weren't sure what would work best. The PA company started first and was moving considerably faster than the other companies, so they were called off. I'm not sure if my impressions were right though as I caught the last 20 minutes or so.

I don't know about the rest.

 

[maxiep]

Why do you think the Chilean President thanked the United States specifically?

 

[Denny Crane]

We don't have a manufacturing base anymore.

 

[maxiep]

A worthwhile read: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703673604575550322091167574.html

 

[barfo]

A worthwhile read: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703673604575550322091167574.html

Seems awfully confused to me. "The American system is great, it produced the drill that saved these miners, and by the way, the American system is completely broken and incapable of doing things like producing drills".

barfo