{"id":27648,"date":"2015-11-14T09:00:22","date_gmt":"2015-11-14T14:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/?p=27648"},"modified":"2015-11-13T15:40:19","modified_gmt":"2015-11-13T20:40:19","slug":"2000-feet-under-how-center-rock-used-solidworks-to-rescue-a-group-of-33-chilean-miners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2015\/11\/2000-feet-under-how-center-rock-used-solidworks-to-rescue-a-group-of-33-chilean-miners.html","title":{"rendered":"2000 Feet Under: How Center Rock used SOLIDWORKS to Rescue a Group of 33 Chilean Miners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On August 2010,<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/subjects\/c\/chile_mining_accident_2010\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"> the Chilean mining accident<\/a><\/strong> shook the local and global community as 33 Chilean miners were trapped 2,300 feet underground. For 69 days, grief-stricken families worked to convince the Chilean government to continue drilling the ground until the miners were brought home safely. In October 2010, a rescue operation involving <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.solidworks.com\/sw\/successes\/customer-story.htm?record=Center-Rock-Inc-&amp;id=4535https:\/\/\" target=\"_blank\">Center Rock (a SOLIDWORKS customer)<\/a><\/strong>, the United States, Canada, South Africa and Latin America successfully brought \u201cthe 33\u201d above ground. Tomorrow you will be able to see the personal account of the disaster: <em>\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2006295\/\" target=\"_blank\">The 33<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, detailing the story. To watch the engineering behind the rescue mission, learn more about Center Rock&#8217;s drilling machine here:<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<div class=\"entry-content-asset\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oQavYNrs_L8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On August 2010, the Chilean mining accident shook the local and global community as 33 Chilean miners were trapped 2,300 feet underground. For 69 days, grief-stricken families worked to convince the Chilean government to continue drilling the ground until the<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2015\/11\/2000-feet-under-how-center-rock-used-solidworks-to-rescue-a-group-of-33-chilean-miners.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":27652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,63],"tags":[449,153,2078,1639],"class_list":["post-27648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solidworks","category-solidworks-simulation","tag-customer","tag-simulation","tag-solidworks-simulation","tag-user"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}