BEACONSFIELD, Australia — They ate yogurt for breakfast Thursday and home cooked soup for dinner. They slept five hours in the cold, the most yet. To keep busy, they clean each other's scratches — all filmed round the clock.

Trapped nearly 3,000 feet underground, two Australian gold miners have been stuck for more than a week after an earthquake pinned the tiny steel cage they were working in under tons of hard rock.

Rescuers who have been sending them supplies including an air mattress and iPods through a narrow tube were ready to start drilling a tunnel big enough to extract the men — Brant Webb, 37, and Todd Russell, 34.