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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam Rescuers to enter Chinese mine where 153 trapped By CARA ANNA,Associated Press Writer - 2 hours 13 minutes ago Send IM Story Print BEIJING – Rescuers, including boats and divers, prepared Saturday to enter a flooded Chinese mine where 153 workers have been trapped for almost a week, while no further signs of life came from underground since tapping was heard the previous day. The governor of the northern province of Shanxi had ordered rescuers to enter the mine by noon. Instead, work to pump out the mine speeded up, and rescuers planned to enter Saturday night or Sunday, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported. One Web site, China News, reported that boats had arrived at the scene and divers were preparing for work. Xinhua said rubber boats and motor boats had been prepared. Rescuers had cheered Friday after hearing the tapping noises and possibly shouting. Footage on state-run China Central Television showed them tapping on pipes with a wrench, then cheering and jumping after hearing a response. They lowered pens and paper, along with glucose and milk, down metal pipes to the spot where the tapping was heard. But nothing new had been heard as of Saturday noon, said Wen Changjin, an official with the news center set up at the site. It was not immediately clear what risks rescuers would be taking by entering the Wangjialing mine, where 3,000 rescuers were working nonstop to pump water. Wen said the water level underground had dropped by 5.4 meters as of noon Saturday. Reporters for state television read out letters that had been sent underground to the trapped miners, urging them to be patient. Government officials say the mine flooded last Sunday afternoon when workers digging tunnels broke into an old shaft filled with water. But experts said it could still take days to reach the miners _ and their survival depended on whether they had decent air to breathe and clean water to drink. "They're doing probably the only thing they can do, which is to pump water as fast as they possibly can," David Feickert, a coal mine safety adviser to the Chinese government, said Friday. He said some mines have rescuers trained as divers for cases like this. "But from the sound of it, there's too much water in this mine and they're not sure where people are." The flood was one of three coal mine accidents in China within a week. A gas explosion Wednesday in the central province of Henan killed 19 and left 24 trapped, and nine people died Thursday in northwestern Shaanxi province. Wen said rescuers tapping on the pipes began to hear responses from about 820 feet (250 meters) below ground at about 2 p.m. Rescuer Zhao Chuan told The Associated Press that another rescue team had reported hearing people shouting underground. Wen said officials at the news center had not heard reports of shouting. Zhao was quoted by state-run China Central Television as saying that an iron wire was found tied to a drill rod and rescuers think it may have been attached by one of the trapped miners. Images of the iron wire showed it had been shaped into a circle, with its ends twisted together. The signs of possible life gave hope to the miners' relatives. "I'm so happy to hear the news, and I think everybody is," Tang Yinfeng, whose brother-in-law is trapped, said by phone Friday night. "The rescue work is much faster than before. We're grateful for their effort." Earlier, relatives had complained the work was going too slowly. The 153 workers were believed to be trapped on nine different platforms in the mine, which was flooded with up to 37 million gallons (140,000 cubic meters) of water, the equivalent of more than 55 Olympic swimming pools, state television has reported. Rescuers said four of the platforms were not totally submerged, the Xinhua reported. The miners' survival depends on several factors, including how cold and wet they are and how much air is available, said David Creedy, a former mine consultant who now works in China for Sindicatum Carbon Capital. "Certainly for the current time, a week or so, there's a good chance" of survival, he said. A preliminary investigation found that the mine's managers ignored water leaks from the abandoned mine before the accident, the State Administration of Work Safety said. "Water leaks were found numerous times in underground shafts," but the mine's managers "did not take the actions necessary to evacuate people," it said. The managers also caused overcrowding by assigning extra tunneling crews in a rush to finish work, the agency added. China's coal mines are the world's deadliest, despite government efforts to reduce fatalities. Most accidents are blamed on failure to follow safety rules or lack of required ventilation, fire controls and equipment. Accidents killed 2,631 coal miners in China last year, down from 6,995 deaths in 2002, the most dangerous year on record, according to the State Administration of Coal Mine Safety. Families of the trapped miners waited Friday with a mix of optimism and nerves. "I saw the news on CCTV and hope he is still alive," said Long Limin, whose brother-in-law is underground. "But my heart is still heavy because finding a sign of life doesn't mean that he is still alive. The more time passes, the less chance they are alive." ___ Associated Press researchers Yu Bing and Henry Hou contributed to this report. 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