Chilean miners trapped underground

25 August 2010: A team prepares the land where an escape hole will be drilled for the miners Photograph: Ivan Alvarado/Reuters

25th August 2010: The Xtrata 950 drill which will be used to make an escape route. The work could take till the end of the year Photograph: Ivan Alvarado/Reuters

25th August 2010: Lilianett Gómez looks at the first letter sent by her father, Mario Gómez, from inside the mine Photograph: Roberto Candia/AP

25th August 2010: Workers place a bottle of water inside a tube that links the trapped miners to the outside world Photograph: Roberto Candia/AP

25th August 2010: Men work on a pipeline at the mine site. Food, clothes and antidepressants will be sent down to the trapped men Photograph: Roberto Candia/AP

25th August 2010: Helen Avalos, whose husband, Jimmy Sanchez, is trapped underground, holds their two-month-old baby outside the mine Photograph: Roberto Candia/AP

25th August 2010: The names of the men trapped in the mine are displayed on a nearby hill Photograph: Ivan Alvarado/Reuters

25th August 2010: Sandro Rojas Carrizo works on a letter before sending it down to his brother Esteban Photograph: Natacha Pisarenko/AP

The 33 trapped miners: Top row (left to right): Alex Vega Salazar, Ariel Ticona Yanez, Carlos Bugueno Alfaro, Calros Barrios Contreras, Carlos Mamani Solis, Claudio Acuna Cortes, Claudio Yanez Lagos, Daniel Herrera Campos, Dario Segovia Rojas, Edison Penaa Villarroel, Esteban Rojas Carrizo. Second row: Florencio Avalos Silva, Franklin Lobos Ramirez, Jimmy Sanchez Lagues, Jorge Galleguillos, Jose Ojeda Vidal, Jose Henriquez Gonzalez, Juan Illanes Palma, Juan Aguilar Gaete, Luis Alberto Urzua, Mario Gomez Heredia and Mario Seplveda Espina. Third row: Omar Orlando Reygada Rojas, Osman Isidro Araya Acuna, Pablo Amadeos Rojas Villacorta, Pedro Cortez, Raul Enriquez Bustos Ibanez, Renan Avalos Silva, Richard Villarroel Godoy, Samuel Avalos Acuna, Victor Segovia Rojas, Victor Zamora Bugueno, Yonny Barrios Rojas Photograph: Diario Atacama/EPA

25th August 2010: Women light candles next to Chilean flags representing the 33 men trapped in the San José mine Photograph: Natacha Pisarenko/AP

26th August 2010: Above ground, the gold and copper mine is a bustle of activity Photograph: Ariel Marinkovic/AFP/Getty Images

26 August 2010: Relatives and journalists watch new images of the miners that were released to local TV stations Photograph: Roberto Candia/AP

26 August 2010: A screengrab of the video recorded using a probe camera, showing two unidentified miners Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

26 August 2010: Alberto Segovia, brother of one of the trapped miners, lights candles at the surface Photograph: Natacha Pisarenko/AP

26 August 2010: An image from a video released by Television Nacional de Chile via the Chilean government, showing the miners in their underground chamber Photograph: AP

27 August 2010: Relatives watch a video recorded by the trapped miners. Chilean television aired footage of the miners showing them in good spirits and explaining the organisation of their shelter Photograph: Hector Retamal/AFP/Getty Images

27 August 2010: Relatives and journalists watch new images of the miners Photograph: Roberto Candia/AP

27 August 2010: Video stills of the trapped miners Photograph: Chilean Mining Ministry/Reuters

28 August 2010: Rescuers install the hydraulic bore, an Australian-made Strata 950, which will dig down to the 33 miners Photograph: Ariel Marinkovic/AFP

29 August 2010: A worker gives a thumbs-up next to the oxygen plant used to send breatheable air to the trapped miners Photograph: Roberto Candia/AP

29th August 2010: A relative of miner Yonni Barrio touches a portrait of him at the camp where relatives are waiting outside the partially-collapsed San Jose mine Photograph: Roberto Candia/AP

29th August 2010: Chile's mining minister, Laurence Golborne, puts a camp bed in a tube used for sending supplies to the trapped miners Photograph: Ivan Alvarado/Reuters

29th August 2010: A relative of one of the trapped miners carries flowers during a religious service at the mine Photograph: Ariel Marinkovic/AFP/Getty Images

30 August: The Raisebore Strata 950 drill, which will drill the hole to rescue the 33 trapped miners, is installed at the San Jose mine Photograph: Esteban Gonzalez/EPA

31st August 2010: Video footage shows some of the trapped miners Photograph: Codelco/EPA

31st August 2010: A screengrab of Victor Segovia, one of the 33 Photograph: Hand Out/Reuters

31st August 2010: Chilean soldiers arrive at the mine Photograph: Ariel Marinkovic/AFP/Getty Images

31st August 2010: A statue of the Virgen del Carmen, Chile's patron saint, placed outside the mine
Photograph: Ariel Marinkovic/AFP/Getty Images

31st August 2010: Javier Soto, an evangelical minister, writes in one of the mini-Bibles being sent down to the miners Photograph: Ariel Marinkovic/AFP/Getty Images

31st August 2010: The minister dedicates one of the Bibles Photograph: Ariel Marinkovic/AFP/Getty Images

1st Sept 2010: A drilling machine crosses the encampment toward the San Jose mine to work in the rescue operation of the miners still trapped inside, near Copiapo, Chile. The 33 miners trapped in a collapsed Chilean mine have survived for a record 27 days and join the few who have survived longer than a few days confined in the Earth's crust Photograph: Ariel Marinkovic/AFP/Getty Images

1st Sept 2010: A woman holds up packed examples of food, which includes rice, meatballs, fruits, cheese and bread, meant for the 33 miners trapped underground in a copper and gold mine at Copiapo, about 725 km (450 miles) north of Santiago, September 1, 2010 Photograph: Ivan Alvarado/Reuters

1st Sept 2010: Deputy chief doctor of Nasa, James Michael Duncan (l) speaks to the media Photograph: Ivan Alvarado/Reuters

1st Sept 2010: Food, which includes rice, meatballs, fruits, cheese and bread, meant for the 33 miners trapped underground in a copper and gold mine, are displayed at Copiapo, about 725 km (450 miles) north of Santiago Photograph: Ivan Alvarado/Reuters

1st Sept 2010: A composite image shows four of 33 trapped miners waving at mine San Jose, near of Copiapo, Chile Photograph: Codelco/EPA

1st Sept 2010: Miners receive supplies, sent to them through a pipe from the surface Photograph: AP