Trapped: How the world rescued 33 miners form 2,000 feet below the chilean desert

I recently checked out and read Trapped by Marc Aronson. This book is about the San Jose Mine that collapsed in the Chilean Desert last summer. I really liked this book, and it was very well written but I have a problem with the people in it. When people tell this story it's a miracle recovery story about how people all over the world worked together to save these men. It wasn't actually like that. Nobody tells you about how mad people were, or that it took a long time to get the drills and workers out there to begin drilling. Nobody tells you that there were three sets of drill teams. The first was a big, slow drill, nicknamed the "turtle", run by a NASA crew. Then there was the fast and efficient drill that started second, nicknamed the "rabbit", run by Tom Foy and Brandon Fisher's small Pennsylvanian drilling company, Center Rock Inc. It would drill as small hole, then change drill bits, and get bigger and bigger. Third was Plan C: "the Transformer", a 141-foot-tall giant drill run by a Canadian team. Although it started last, it was the most likely to succeed, if the other drillers ran into trouble, it would surely get there. The thing that bothers me is just how competitive it was. Not everybody worked "together" to succeed, it was a round-the-clock race, and outside of the Chilean Government, nobody really got to help decide what would be the best option. The people from all over the world were cheering for all the teams, but to them it was a race, a chance to show their skills, not a goal to rescue them. Although I'm sure their goal was to rescue the miners, it seemed that the author portrayed it as a race, and I didn't really like that take on it. But if you also didn't understand what the heck the newspaper articles were talking about, read this book, it really helped me understand more about the processes of rescuing people in a mine.