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In this undated photo provided by New Zealand Police, miner Terry David Kitchin, 41, Runanga, New Zealand poses before the camera. Kitchin 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 Zen Wodin Drew, 21, of Greymouth, New Zealand poses before the camera. Drew 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 Joseph Ray Dunbar, 17, of Greymouth, New Zealand poses before the camera. Dunbar 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 Allan John Dixon, 59, of Rununga, New Zealand poses before the camera. Dixon 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 Samuel Peter McKie, 26, of Greymouth, New Zealand poses before the camera. McKie 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 David Mark Hoggart, 33, of Foxton, New Zealand poses before the camera. Hogart 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 Kane Barry Nieper, 33, of Greymouth, New Zealand poses before the camera. Nieper 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 released by New Zealand Police, miner Blair David Sims, 28, of Greymouth, New Zealand, poses before the camera. Sims 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 released by New Zealand Police, miner Peter O'Neill, 55, of Rununga, New Zealand, poses before the camera. O'Neill 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 released by New Zealand Police, miner Keith Thomas Valli, 62, of Winton, New Zealand, poses before the camera. Valli 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 released by New Zealand Police, miner Daniel Thomas Herk, 36, from Rununga, New Zealand, poses before the camera. Herk 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 released by New Zealand Police, miner Christopher Peter Duggan, 31, from Greymouth, New Zealand, poses before the camera. Duggan 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 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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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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Rescuers escort a trapped miner wrapped in white quilt on their way out from the flooded Batian Coal Mine in Xiaohe town of Weiyuan county in southwest China's Sichuan province Monday, Nov. 22, 2010. Emergency crews drained the flooded Chinese coal mine and rescued all 29 trapped workers Monday, ending a daylong rescue drama. (AP Photo/Color China Photo)

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In this Sunday, Nov. 21, 2010 photo, rescuers get ready to enter the flooded Batian coal mine for their rescue mission in Xiaohe town of Weiyuan county in southwest China's Sichuan province. Rescuers were racing Monday to reach 28 people trapped while doing safety work in coal mine in southern China, the latest accident in the world's deadliest mines. (AP Photo/Color China Photo)

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In this Sunday, Nov. 21, 2010 photo, rescuers get ready to enter the flooded Batian coal mine in Xiaohe town of Weiyuan county in southwest China's Sichuan province. Rescuers were racing Monday to reach 28 people trapped while doing safety work in coal mine in southern China, the latest accident in the world's deadliest mines. (AP Photo/Color China Photo)

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In this Sunday, Nov. 21, 2010 photo, relatives and workers waits for the news of the flooded Batian coal mine in Xiaohe town of Weiyuan county in southwest China's Sichuan province. Rescuers were racing Monday to reach 28 people trapped while doing safety work in coal mine in southern China, the latest accident in the world's deadliest mines. (AP Photo/Color China Photo)