Jaswant Singh Gill is no longer with us. The Mahabir Colliery has since closed. But the capsule sits in a museum, and the story lives on—whispered in mining safety lectures, shown in grainy photographs, and now, filmed for the world.
and suggested drilling a new borehole through which it could be lowered to the miners. Selfless Courage
: Out of 232 miners working the night shift, 161 were evacuated quickly, but 65 miners remained trapped 350 feet below ground as oxygen levels plummeted.