Leo Cechel

"Once I got into the gas area. Since methane was in the mine, which is lighter than air, it stays above and carbon dioxide drops down, carbon monoxide is as heavy as air, so it's in the whole profile, and there's hydrogen sulfide. Well, and I got it ... we used to make security drills when it was dug out. So I was there for some time so that we would not hit detritus during drilling. Detritus is a drained horizon of sand and gas. Well, we had the machine, and I got the methane under the ceiling. Indeed, as I say, I flew into the light. And interestingly, you will be remembering your whole life within a short while. Really such a movie, I do not know what it is based on. And we were there. There was another older pitman with me. And it seemed to him that I was under the ceiling, he called me. And when he called me, I let go off the ladder, and I was a bit lower and there was no more methane."

„As we were coming back from holidays, the Polish checked on us at the Moravian borders. And I got a memory, how we took one with a large suitcase, a man around fifty years old. I figured that they were checking us and we took that man, who did not know what was in the suitcase. But they were Polish and I came from that region so could speak some of their language. They were just asking where we were coming from. So we said that we were returning from holidays and they let us go.”