I feel for this man...
(extract from article)

"Pike River chief executive Peter Whittall was watching CCTV footage when he saw something which will forever change his life and those of hundreds of others -- a second explosion in the Pike River mine, this one not survivable.

Mr Whittall had given many of those who died their jobs, and had worked alongside some of them, so it was fitting that he gave their families today's devastating news.

"It was hard obviously," the former miner said.

"But it was my task and I wanted to tell the families."

"All of the other things that people were saying we should try possibly could have but I'm absolutely confident that the measures that were taken up there by the rescue teams and by all the men on site were absolutely correct and absolutely right and, to the best of my knowledge, absolutely nothing that was being done up there has caused this."

Mr Whittall's family embraced him when the press conference concluded and the officials and media gathered clapped him out of the room -- something very rarely seen."