Pike River recovery team reach furthest point in mine

The Pike River Recovery Agency has reached the furthest point that it plans to go to in the mine re-entry operation. On Tuesday, recovery workers reached the roof fall - 2.26 kilometres up the mine drift access tunnel. They placed momentos on the foam plug, including a letter addressed to the Pike 29 promising that work will continue to find out what happened on the 19th of November, 2010. Forensic work will now be carried out in the Pit Bottom In Stone area, which is required for the police investigation. Family members of the 29 men who died have expressed mixed emotions about the agency getting to the furthest point in the operation. For Bernie Monk, who lost his son Michael in the tragedy, the recovery team has not gone far enough into the mine. He spoke to our producer Matthew Theunissen.