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photo by jason ness mine photo by ap photo/natacha pisarenko Lane Sieben (left) and Keith Chizen supervised the effort to inspect the welds on the steel sleeve (below, being inserted into the rescue tunnel) by using ultrasonic inspection technology (shown here on a steel pipe). aLumni heLp CHILEAN mINERS it might have seemed like a logistical nightmare – if they’d had time to think about it. Six weeks after a mine collapse in Chile on Aug. 5, 2010 trapped 33 miners 700 metres underground, Lane Sieben of Edmonton’s Metalogic Inspection Services Inc. received an email seeking assistance in the rescue attempt. “It was definitely urgent,” says Sieben (Materials Engineering Technology ’04) of the email sent by Techint, the global engineering firm building a steel sleeve to line the shaft through which the miners would be freed. The company needed the welds between the sections of the sleeve inspected for flaws. After using Metalogic’s ultrasonic inspection technology on a previous job, Techint handpicked the firm for the rescue contract. For Sieben and his partner on the job, Keith Chizen (Materials Engineering Technology ’01), the rescue proved they could successfully apply their skills to assist people in a life-anddeath situation. Without time for the usual planning and protocol, they mobilized resources from Canada, Brazil and Thailand. “From the moment we had our first contact, we had people on-site and ready to go three days later,” says Chizen. “It was . . . don’t ask questions, just make it happen.” That was no small feat. And from a technical standpoint, there were no real guidelines to follow. “Generally, we work towards a code or a specification,” says Sieben. The partners worked from Edmonton to supervise Metalogic workers on-site as they inspected welds, detecting flaws that, had they been missed, could have caused the sleeve to fail. Sieben and Chizen watched on TV as the first miner surfaced on Oct. 13, after 69 days underground. “As far as the feeling goes it was just, ‘A job well done for everybody,’” says Sieben. “[Our role] was just a small piece to a large puzzle and a huge effort.” — Eliza Barlow TECHNOfILE v4.2 2011 15
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