This is pretty cool! It’s not every day that you have a major Hollywood motion picture that features drillers as the unlikely heroes! The movie ‘The 33" stars some big names like Antonio Banderas, Lou Diamond Phillips, and James Brolin as the driller extraordinaire, Jeff Hart. If you missed this story, check out the GeoPrac article I wrote about the Drillers, Rigs, Rock and Hart of the Chile Mine Rescue. [Source: YouTube. Image: YouTube]
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MISSION WOODS, Kan., Oct. 10, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — “Plan B” worked. Winning the three-way race to reach the 33 miners trapped in Chile since Aug. 5, drillers from Kansas City-based Layne Christensen Co. broke through at 8 a.m. Saturday.
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