In September 2010 , Willcox travelled to Chile to report for BBC News on the attempts to rescue the miners trapped underground after the Copiapó mining accident . In October 2010 he did extensive live coverage of the operation to bring the trapped miners back to the surface , and interviewed Chilean President Sebastián Piñera . He is to play himself in a film about the Copiapó mining accident and began filming in February 2014
Copiapó mining accident
2010 Copiapó mining accident
Tim Willcox