Daniel Coyle
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There was no hope of rescue at the time.
They figure there's no hope.
There's a little bit of food in the cabinet.
And for the first couple hours down there, it was Lord of the Flies.
People were eating the food and it was very chaotic.
And then
As you might remember, they managed to keep it together for 16 days before they were contacted from above, and then for about 40 more days before they were each rescued.
All of them ended up surviving.
But when they first contacted them...
They lowered an audio line and they expected to find madness, starvation.
And instead what they found was a group that was connected, was cohesive.
They didn't have much food.
They didn't have much water.
They were by many measures suffering.
And yet they sang a song together.
when they first were contacted.
They sang the Chilean anthem together.
And they cooperated at a very high level.
They had cohesion at a very high level.
When they finally were removed, the people in the mind kept letting others go first.