You make it sound like a form of punishment. Anyway, looks like they've found the bits. Given they were claiming to be hearing tapping, it looks like the guy with the hammer got a bit too zealous for the material he was hitting.
I don't understand why they didn't just take turns breathing. The air would have lasted five times as long.
Seems reasonable, we have a national gateway that lets us see what the politicians are up to, and where they plan to spend our tax etc.