Both drives failed in RAID 1 array. How do I recover from this?

So I have a large problem on my hands; my RAID 1 array has 2 disks which have both failed. One disk failed at a time with a span of about a month between the 2 failures. Since I hear no clicking noises from the disks and I can still see both of them when I do a "diskutil list", I'm guessing the disk electronics are good as well, so I should be able to work with the disks. Here's the output from "diskutil checkRaid" :
Name: USB RAID Set 1
Unique ID: AD191DE5-49CB-4BEE-9362-D98B690DAC3A
Type: Mirror
Status: Offline
Device Node: disk2
Apple RAID Version: 2
# Device Node UUID Status
0 disk1s3 5D09E4DE-E0E9-4518-8672-F247F5CE0CBB Failed
1 disk3s3 431B65E0-DF51-4045-8C1E-CCB69E95916D Failed
Here's what I'd like to do: Although I have a good idea of which of the 2 disks has the most recent data on it, I'd like to be able to mount disk1s3 and disk3s3 independently and compare which has more data on it. Then, I'm going to plug in another USB hard disk and copy the data from the failed raid disk with the greatest disk utilization over to the USB disk I plugged in. At that point I'll trash the RAID 1 array and start over again. Of course I have no backup of my data, so just recovering isn't an option (my genius thinking was, "Ahh who needs backups, I'm using RAID!" Hah.. good one).
I tried doing the following to mount the slices: # diskutil mount disk1s3 and # diskutil mount disk1s3 force. Neither of which mount the disk. I've also tried specifying a mount point and that doesn't work either. All commands come back with "Volume disk1s3 mounted" but if I type "mount", I don't see it mounted anywhere. dmesg and /var/log/system.log don't give me anything useful about why the slices don't mount... the only thing I see from dmesg are the errors which started this mess:
HFS resolvelink: can't find iNode6487433
USBF: 107524. 33 AppleUSBEHCI[0x27c4800]::DoControlTransfer sync request on workloop thread. Use async!
AppleRAID::recover() member 5D09E4DE-E0E9-4518-8672-F247F5CE0CBB from set "USB RAID Set 1" (AD191DE5-49CB-4BEE-9362-D98B690DAC3A) has been marked offline.
AppleRAID::restartSet - restarting set "USB RAID Set 1" (AD191DE5-49CB-4BEE-9362-D98B690DAC3A).
disk2: media is not present.
HFS: err 6 reading VH blk (RAID 1)
jnl: flushing fs disk buffer returned 0x6
disk2: media is not present.
jnl: dojnlio: strategy err 0x6
jnl: writejournalheader: error writing the journal header!
AppleRAID::restartSet - restarting set "USB RAID Set 1" (AD191DE5-49CB-4BEE-9362-D98B690DAC3A).
AppleRAIDSet::addMember() detected expired sequenceNumber (12) for member 5D09E4DE-E0E9-4518-8672-F247F5CE0CBB
Also here's a diskutil list in case that's useful to anyone:
# diskutil list
/dev/disk0
#: type name size identifier
0: Applepartitionscheme *74.5 GB disk0
1: Applepartitionmap 31.5 KB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 74.4 GB disk0s3
/dev/disk1
#: type name size identifier
0: Applepartitionscheme *931.5 GB disk1
1: Applepartitionmap 31.5 KB disk1s1
2: Apple_Boot 128.0 MB disk1s2
3: Apple_RAID 931.4 GB disk1s3
/dev/disk2
#: type name size identifier
0: Apple_HFS *931.4 GB disk2
/dev/disk3
#: type name size identifier
0: Applepartitionscheme *931.5 GB disk3
1: Applepartitionmap 31.5 KB disk3s1
2: Apple_Boot 128.0 MB disk3s2
3: Apple_RAID 931.4 GB disk3s3
/dev/disk4
#: type name size identifier
0: Applepartitionscheme *647.5 MB disk4
1: Applepartitionmap 31.5 KB disk4s1
2: Apple_HFS DiskWarriorCD 647.4 MB disk4s2
So, does anyone know how I can mount the slices independently so that I can grab the data off the useful slice?

Ok figured this one out myself. So the file system types that the FS is labeled with isn't known by the standard mount program, but really under the covers apple's software raid slice is just a HFS partition. Fantastic.
1) So first you figure out what slice you want to mount, in my case /dev/disk1s3 (oh ya, unlike the diskutil command, you need to actually specify the full path to the device so you need the /dev in there)
2) Create a mount point to mount the slice to "mkdir /Volumes/disk1s3" for example
3) Mount it up! "mount -t hfs /dev/disk1s3 /Volumes/disk1s3"
4) If you're interested in actually using the GUI to view the files, you can place an alias on your desktop by doing a "ln -s /Volumes/disk1s3 /Users/<putyour_user_namehere>/Desktop/disk1s3 "
This probably only works for a RAID 1 or maybe even a RAID 1+0 but in any case it allowed me to pull my data off so that I could back the data up and re-create the RAID 1 setup. You should only be doing this if both your drives get marked as failed, otherwise it's way easier to just use the disk utility to repair the array.

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