Surprise Me!

Beaconsfield mine survivors and community reflect on historic rescue 20 years on

2026-04-25 29 Dailymotion

On Anzac Day in 2006, a minor earthquake triggered a rockfall in the Beaconsfield gold mine, killing one miner and trapping two others almost a kilometre underground. The two-week rescue operation to get Brant Webb and Todd Russell out of the northern Tasmanian mine captured global attention and 20 years later it continues to loom large in the lives of the survivors and the community.