for now that the explosion went unreported for more than a day according to the influential china youth daily. there are now a steady communications with 11 of the miners 1st found alive on sunday when workers pulled up a scrawled and very wet note pleading for food and medicine and warning that water levels were high the work to bring back those miners and search for others is focused on the men about 540 meters from the surface and another miner further down with whom they had earlier communicated all trapped by the explosion they haven't heard from the lone miner though for several days and are of course drilling further for the missing man. and now one of the 11 known to be alive has fallen into a coma with serious head injuries sustained in the explosion. and as a woman so we can see him and he can speak with us we can only communicate by phone so we're teaching his coworkers some basic medical and rescue knowledge so they can update us on the situation of the unconscious miner. we were on prominent. telephone lines were dropped down not long after the 1st rations of porridge and pickles