The Chile miners

On August the fifth, 33 men from Chile were mining copper and gold but 700,000 tons of rock fell and trapped the men. The oldest person down in the mine is 63 year old Mario Gomez. The mine is 2300 feet deep.

The problem for the men is if panic attacks start. They've been down there for 68 days. If they get blood clots it won't be a nice sight and they need sun light.

The rescue capsule is 21 inches wide and is ten feet high. They needed to drill a hole down first to send food, water and supplies. The capsule takes about 20 minutes to come up and down for one person. It will take 48 hours (2 days) for the whole operation.

In conclusion we all hope the men get out safely. They will want to see there family's because of how long they've been down there. They will get lots of money from interviews.

The Aquarium Trip

On Tuesday the 27Th of April Room 13 and 14 went on the bus to the aquarium in Portobello when we got there we walked down the hill we went there because we needed to learn about fish. firstly we hopped off the bus and walked down the wiggly path and walked in the amazing aquarium then we went in the conference room and had some morning tea while talking.

Secondly the Lady's told what groups to go where the first group went to the dog fish shark and it can give you an electric shok and the water crashes in from the harbour.

then we went to the room that had a shark jaw in it and we learnt about filter feeders and zoo plankton and plankton we got to hold a shark's jaw's.

next we went to the touch tanks she told us about the pig fish and the sea cucumber and some mussels. I picked up a sea Cucumber,a kina,Star fish and a Hermit crab. After the touch tanks we looked at the mini aquariums they had a pig fish a sea cucumber and other amazing fish.

Finally we went back to the conference room and talked about what eats what and what we eat then we scrambled up the hill to the bus and went back to school.