Australian miners tell of cave ordeal

Two miners trapped for two weeks almost 3,000ft underground in an Australian gold mine today revealed they wrote farewell messages to their families on their own skin in expectation of dying.

In the first media interview broadcast since their ordeal ended, Brant Webb, 37, and Todd Russell, 34, told their survival story in a four-hour paid exclusive interview with Australian television’s Nine Network. The pair will soon fly to New York for an American television interview.