A senior NSW ambulance officer and a member of the Beaconsfield rescue team believes an “amazing strength of mind” help keep the two trapped gold miners alive for a fortnight, almost one kilometre underground. Dominic Morgan, a Superintendent with the Ambulance Service of NSW, was one of six members of the Service’s Special Casualty Access Team (SCAT) to work in the large rescue effort in Tasmania’s northeast. Working in 12 hour shifts with his SCAT colleagues, the Charles Sturt University (CSU) graduate was mainly responsible for maintaining the mental health of Todd Russell and Brant Webb. Communicating through an 87 millimetre PVC pipe, Superintendent Morgan said his team had to “buoy their spirits” and keep the miners “relaxed and confident as possible”. He said the mine rescue posed a “whole new set of challenges” from normal paramedic work due to its sustained nature. The ambulance officer reflected that the two trapped miners showed how “strong the human mind can be” and displayed “incredible support for each other”.  CSU was the first university to offer pre-hospital care education in Australia with graduates employed as ambulance officers in paramedic and emergency care settings in Australia and overseas.