July 2002- nine men are trapped in a collapsed mine with no food or drinking water. In their underground grave the waters are rising and the oxygen vanishing. They face imminent death from suffocation or drowning. Miraculously all nine of the miners survived. It took 77 hours to rescue them from a tiny, pitch black chamber of rock, only 3 feet high. This is their terrifying and moving story. The only official story, told in own voices, with chapters from their wives, girlfriends and mothers who waited up above with increasing desperation. This is a rare, and raw, book.

How did these nine men prepare for death? What did they think about as the waters rose, as breathing became harder and harder? A nail biting and life- changing account of a nearly tragic disaster.