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    In this undated photo released by New Zealand Police, miner Richard Bennett Holling, 41, from Blackball, New Zealand, poses before the camera. Holling is one of 29 miners believed to be trapped in the Pike River Coal mine near Greymouth, New Zealand, following an explosion at the mine Friday, Nov. 19, 2010. (AP Photo/New Zealand Police)


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    In this undated photo provided by New Zealand Police shows miner Andrew David Hurren, 32, of Greymouth, New Zealand. Hurren is one of 29 miners believed to be trapped in the Pike River Coal mine near Greymouth, New Zealand, following an explosion at the mine Friday, Nov. 19, 2010 (AP Photo/New Zealand Police)


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    In this undated photo provided by New Zealand Police shows miner Conrad John Adams, 43, of Greymouth, New Zealand. Adams is one of 29 miners believed to be trapped in the Pike River Coal mine near Greymouth, New Zealand, following an explosion at the mine Friday, Nov. 19, 2010. (AP Photo/New Zealand Police)


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    In this undated photo provided by New Zealand Police, miner Benjamin David Rockhouse, 21, of Greymouth, New Zealand pauses before the camera. Rockhouse is one of 29 miners believed to be trapped in the Pike River Coal mine near Greymouth, New Zealand, following an explosion at the mine Friday Nov. 19, 2010. (AP Photo/New Zealand Police)


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    Mine blast survivor Daniel Rockhouse, center, hugs family members following their briefing with police and company officials in Greymouth, New Zealand, after visiting the Pike River coal mine, Monday, Nov. 22, 2010. Rescue officials are preparing to send a high-tech robot into a mine tunnel to transmit pictures and assess toxic gas levels three days after an explosion left 29 miners missing underground. (AP Photo/New Zealand Herald, Mark Mitchell)


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    In this undated aerial photo provided by Pike River Coal is the Pike River Coal Processing Plant near the town of Atarau on the west coast of New Zealand's South Island. An explosion ripped through the coal mine on Friday, Nov. 19, 2010, and around 30 workers were unaccounted for, police and the mining company said. (AP Photo/Pike River Coal via New Zealand Herald)


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    A pilot whale is loaded onto a truck Friday, Sept. 24, 2010, to be transported to Rarawa Bay for release after a mass whale stranding at Spirits Bay in the Far North, New Zealand. Rescuers on Friday began moving the 24 survivors of a pod of 80 pilot whales that stranded themselves on a remote northern New Zealand beach to a more sheltered area in an attempt to save them. (AP Photo/New Zealand Herald, Richard Robinson)


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    Volunteer Kate Malcolm from Tutukaka, New Zealand comforts a whale after it was moved to a nearby stream to rest while it is decided how it will be attempted to release them at a mass Pilot Whale stranding at Spirits Bay in the Far North, New Zealand, Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010. Only 24 of several dozen pilot whales stranded on a remote northern New Zealand beach survived a stormy first night ashore despite rescuers' desperate efforts to save them.(AP Photo/Richard Robinson)


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    Volunteers Susan Crowther, left, and Justine Sanderson keep stranded whales moist while they wait to be transported from the beach to a nearby stream where they can rest while it is decided how it will be attempted to release them at Spirits Bay in the Far North, New Zealand, Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010. Only 24 of several dozen pilot whales stranded on the remote northern New Zealand beach survived a stormy first night ashore despite rescuers' desperate efforts to save them. (AP Photo/Richard Robinson)


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