Thursday marks ten years since a massive explosion ripped through the Pike River mine. 29 men from the West Coast and around the world remain entombed there.
A Royal Commission identified a total disregard by management for their welfare and led to sweeping changes of workplace safety rules.
But still none of those in charge have been held accountable.
Now a team is slowly making its way down the two-point-three-kilometre entry tunnel in the search for evidence that might lead to a prosecution, and, although the chances are slim, the bodies of the men inside.
Conan Young reports.
