Australia Mine Ordeal

Miners Todd Russell, left, and Brant Webb, smile as they arrive above ground after spending two weeks trapped nearly 3,000 feet underground in the Beaconsfield Gold Mine at Beaconsfield, Australia, Tuesday, May 9, 2006. After initial medical tests, Webb, 37, and Russell, 34, strode from the mine's main lift shaft and hugged family and friends before clambering into two ambulances, still laughing and joking with friends.

Miners Todd Russell, left, and Brant Webb, center, take their first steps above ground after spending two weeks trapped nearly 3,000 feet underground in the Beaconsfield Gold Mine at Beaconsfield, Australia, Tuesday, May 9, 2006. After initial medical tests, Webb, 37, and Russell, 34, walked from the mine's main lift shaft and hugged family and friends before clambering into two ambulances.

Miners Todd Russell, center right, and Brant Webb, left, embrace loved ones as they arrive above ground after spending two weeks trapped in the Beaconsfield Gold Mine at Beaconsfield, Australia, Tuesday, May 9, 2006. Russell and Webb were trapped after a rock fall that killed a third miner.

Australian miner Brant Webb, right, waves to the camera as he arrives at Launceston Hospital with his wife Rachel, left, after being trapped deep underground for two weeks and rescued on Tuesday May 9, 2006 from the Beaconsfield Gold Mine, in the Australian island state of Tasmania.

Australian miner Todd Russell waves as he arrives at Launceston Hospital after being trapped deep underground for two weeks and rescued on Tuesday May 9, 2006 from the Beaconsfield Gold Mine, in the Australian island state of Tasmania.

A miner smiles and gestures with his thumb as he walks away from the mine head as a rescue operation continued to free two men trapped at the mine in Beaconsfield, Australia, Monday, May 8, 2006. Later, the mine manager announced that the two had been rescued and were OK. The trapped miners, Todd Russell, 34, and Brant Webb, 37, spent 13 days 3,000 feet underground.

A miner expels air as he walks away from the mine head as a rescue operation continued to free two men trapped at the mine in Beaconsfield, Australia, Monday, May 8, 2006. The men were trapped when a small earthquake triggered a rock fall April 25 that sealed them in the mine and killed one of their workmates.

Two miners smile as they walk away from the mine head as the rescue operation continued to free two other men trapped at the mine in Beaconsfield, Australia, Monday, May 8, 2006.

A sample of the quartz rock from the Beaconsfield Gold Mine sits on a table in the park across from the mine as a rescue operation continued to free two men trapped at the mine in Beaconsfield, Australia, Sunday, May 7, 2006.

A mine official, right, talks to two men about to descend into the Beaconsfield Gold Mine as a rescue operation continued to free two men trapped at Beaconsfield, Australia, Friday, May 5, 2006.

A union official briefs the media in a park across from the Beaconsfield Gold Mine as a rescue operation continues to free two men trapped at Beaconsfield, Australia, Friday, May 5, 2006.

The Beaconsfield Gold Mine is shown Thursday, May 4, 2006, as a rescue operation continued to free two men trapped at the mine at Beaconsfield, Australia.

Men and machinery at the mine head as a rescue operation continued to free two men trapped at the Beaconsfield Gold Mine at Beaconsfield, Australia, Thursday, May 4, 2006.

A local woman who gave her name as Janette, places flowers on the fence at the entrance to the Beaconsfield Gold Mine in Beaconsfield, Australia, Wednesday, May 3, 2006, as a rescue continued to free two gold miners who have been trapped nearly 3,000 feet underground for more than a week.