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The exclusive, public report of the survival, faith, and family of Chile's 33 trapped miners. If the San José mine collapsed outside of Copiapó, Chile, in August 2010, it trapped 33 miners beneath a large number of feet of rock and roll for a record-breaking 69 days. Across the globe, we sat riveted to television set and computer monitors as journalists flocked to the Atacama desert. While we saw what transpired above ground during the grueling and protracted save, the storyline of the miners' experience below the Earth's surface - and the lives that led them there - was not heard as yet. In Deep Down Deep, a get good at work by a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Héctor Tobar profits exclusive access to the miners and their reviews. The result is a miraculous and psychologically textured profile of the 33 men who came up to think of the San José mine as some sort of coffin, as a "cave" inflicting frequent and thundering aural torment, so that as a cathedral where they desired redemption through prayer while the world viewed from above. It offers an understanding of the individuals and personal histories that helped bring "los 33" to the mine, and the mystical and spiritual elements that encircled employed in such a dangerous place.