Pike River Mine Explosion

 Pike River Mine Explosion,  Nov, 19th 2010.

I think it's gonna be about a mine cavern that exploded in New Zealand on November the 19th 2010.

I think i will find out if anyone died / how many people died, and how/why it happened.

1. The Pike River Mine is located the West Coast of South Island of New Zealand

2. The building of the mine started in 2005 but the actual mining started in November, 2008

3. 31 Men were inside the mine at the time of the explosion.

4. Two Men escaped the mine explosion, the the 29 died inside the mine

5. Because it was far too dangerous to send human searchers into the mine to find the bodies, so instead they sent in robots.

6. Jacinda Adern made a promise to unseal and re-enter the mine, also going to send in a searching team to see what or who they could find, but it failed, they couldn't.

Videos;

Video #1

-One of the survives tells people that he ducked behind the door of the loader to avoid falling rocks.
-Russel was left for dead by an electrician who saw him lying on the ground
-Another survivor, Daniel rescued Russel and helped him escape
-They turned on taps to help clear the smoke
-Daniel and Russel are the only two who got out, 
-Daniels younger brother of 21 years, didn't make it out of the mine
-They still don't know why the mine exploded

Video #2 

-The mine was extremely gassy but no one thought it wouldn't explode that's why they entered
-Russel felt more peaceful before he passed out
-In the mines the miners were trained that mine rescuers would save you so you should wait to be rescued
-The people blamed the corporation for the explosion and the 29 deaths.
-People were mad at the manager at the time (Ben and Daniels father, Ben died)
-Daniel has a wife (Tammy)

Poster

(Resources; the videos and notes above)

Reflection

I am learning about the Pike River Mine Explosion

This work shoes my learning because it is about the Pike River Mine Explosion

I am wondering if anyone did survive, even thought i know that is impossible to find out

I got all my predictions correct about what happened and when it happened.

Extra from the extra reading thingy

Notes

- The explosion happened Friday 19th Nov 2010

- The planning started in 2005

- The mine opened in 2008 and was almost shut down due to the gas

- On the day of the explosion at 3:44 Ben (Daniels brother) was deep into the mine whilst Daniel and Russell were closer to the top.

- The company was ordered to pay $110,000 to each family but could only afford to pay $5,000 to each family due to the fact it had to be shut down because they couldn't sell coal

- The coal in Pike River Mine was discovered in 1946 but the planning for the mine started in 2005

- Jacinda Adern promised to re-open the mine and re-enter to find the bodies.

- The Pike River Mine explosion was the worse mine disaster in New Zealand since 1914.

Questions

there was too much gas and it almost made the mine shut down once it first opened in 2008

That the mine had violated multiple health and safety codes/rules, and that the explosion had been caused by the ignition of a large volume of methan.

Because the two men that did escape, Daniel and Russell, were closer to the opening of the mine, and both had something that helped them, ducking behind something or for Russell he was in the cab of the truck.

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1. The first person to discover coal in the paparoa ranges was Harold Wellman

2. The prime minister promised that she would open and re-enter the mine.

3. The Pike River Mine is located on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand.

4.the explosion happened the 10th of November 2010

5. The reason was that the company was broke because they were unable to sell any more coal.

Two questions i had once reading the article was, 'why didn't they close it in 2008 when the gas almost shut it down the first time' and 'what if there were more people down there that they didn't register'