1963 28 Oct. 10/5 It is hoped to bring the survivors through this [shaft] to the surface by means of a rescue capsule..—a device used successfully in the recent Pennsylvania mine rescue.
1977 24 Apr. 1/5 We just dropped everything we had in our hands and ran to the rescue capsules, which were closed and lowered down to the sea.
2002 (Nexis) 28 July 12 Rescue units at the Que Creek coal mine in Pennsylvania were preparing to lower a rescue capsule into the flooded shaft.