<p><br /> Rescuers are hoping to make contact with the 33 miners trapped underground in Chile within hours.<br /> </p><p><br /> Officials have been inspecting the room where the men will be taken when they return to the surface after being trapped for more than two months.<br /> </p><p><br /> After they are reunited with their families, the miners will be taken by the Chilean Air Force helicopter to a hospital in Copiapo.<br /> </p><p><br /> The actual rescue is expected to take 48 hours as the miners are pulled out one by one, a spectacle that has drawn nearly 800 journalists to the isolated San Jose mine in the Chilean desert.<br /> </p><p><br /> Engineers are carving through the last 128ft (39m) of rock, taking care to keep the T130 drill from jamming or punching through with too much force.<br /> </p><p><br /> The Plan B drill is poised to win a three-way race to reach the miners with a hole wide enough to accommodate their escape capsule. Two other drills, Plan A and Plan C, had to slow down after repeatedly veering off course.<br /> </p><p><br /> The breakthrough - to be heralded with a loud siren - will be an emotional milestone in the tent city known as Camp Hope.<br /> </p>
