The rescue mission began after rain showers soaked the Tham Luang Cave area in northern Chiang Rai province for the past 24 hours, heightening the risks in what the governor has called a “war with water and time” to save the team....ADDED: More information, with excellent graphics at BBC:
Weather.com forecast sustained thunderstorms lasting through Sunday and Monday, with further stormy weather expected for around the next two weeks....
To escape, the children must dive through dark, narrow passageways sometimes no more than two-feet wide, that have challenged some of the world’s leading cave divers. A former member of Thailand’s SEAL unit died during a dive on Thursday night....
There are some parts of the route where the diver must remove the air tank to get through a narrow space, but you can see in the graphic that the boy will not be wearing a tank at all. He only needs to wear a mask and swim forward while tied to a man in front and followed by a man behind him. The boy's mask is a full-face mask, which, we're told, is "easier for novice divers than traditional respirators."
AND: "At least two of a group of boys trapped inside a cave in northern Thailand for two weeks have been been successfully brought out, reports say." Wonderful!!
UPDATE: "Four boys have reached chamber three and will walk out of the cave shortly..."
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Fingers crossed so hard they hurt!
Here's hoping.
Thank you for posting this.
Godspeed to all concerned.
Four out
i don't know how those rescuers get through the cave, what with their balls so big.
Nicely done; hope it goes smoothly for the rest of the way.
"At 10 a.m. today (0300 GMT) 13 foreign divers went in to extract the children along with 5 Thai navy SEALs."
So the white people have to rescue the 5 Thai navy guys too?
"walking, wading, climbing and diving - all in complete darkness - "
Funny that the "foreigners" didn't bring some sort of newfangled underwater candle or some such.
Disney is already working on the shooting script.
Watching this whole thing unfold I was reminded of the old joke about marriage. Easy to get into, hard to get out of.
How did this group wander so easily into this remote area? Caves are bewildering places, with so many twists and turns, dead alleys, uneven footing, low ceilings, water, and so forth. All in utter darkness where your 2-dimensional orientation is lost within seconds. And never regained. Chances are that the group arrived at their spot using a route not the one being planned for the rescue.
One thing is certain though; that guy's never gonna be in charge of kids ever again.
this Is good; but in four days, when typhoons drown 1,200 Thais; no one in the media (or the rest of the world) will blink an eye
Sending Our Love Down The Well
"So the white people have to rescue the 5 Thai navy guys too?"
At least one of the foreigners is Chinese. I don't know where the rest are from.
"no one in the media (or the rest of the world) will blink an eye"
-- And yet I'm sure the Comfort or some equivalent American vessel will arrive with aid, both official and from private charities.
This is no good for ratings because it ends.
Great news to wake up to on a beautiful Sunday morning!
6 boys out. That's half.
And yet I'm sure the Comfort or some equivalent American vessel will arrive with aid Matthew is right, of course. I suppose That's what makes Children Down a Well so compelling; we WANT to help, but we Can't (until we get them out)
this Is good; but in four days, when typhoons drown 1,200 Thais; no one in the media (or the rest of the world) will blink an eye
That part of Thailand where the typhoons and tsunamis hit is mostly Muslim. Allah will save them.
The only part of Thailand with terrorism. I wonder why ?
Disney is already working on the shooting script.
Of course, half of the team will be girls and 13% of the rescuers will be black. Can't wait.
That said, I am so relieved that the rescue appears to be going so well. The pictures of those smiling kids underground broke my heart.
It looks like the reports of the 5th & 6th boys rescued were premature.
Praying for them all.
twitter says two of the foreign British divers are John Volanthen and Rick Stanton. Two of the best cave divers in the world.
They found the boys.
I hope the idiot coach is last out
I hope the idiot coach is last out
He might be better off if they leave him there.
It appears that toxic masculinity is good for something after all.
Of course, we can further test that theory by putting Inga and Ritmo in a cave and sending Women's Studies majors and antifa soy boys to rescue them.
This is the best of human kind.
You guys are being cruel to the coach, with the benefit of hindsight. I bet the boys were so excited to go into the caves.
You guys are being cruel to the coach, with the benefit of hindsight. I bet the boys were so excited to go into the caves.
Adult supervision would have kept them out.
Good luck to the rescuers and the soon-to-be-rescued.
Someone is checking up on the demographics of the rescue crew, right? I mean there must be enough women and non-Thai minorities in the group or it's an illegal attempt and we can't have that.
Toxic masculinity will kill as surely as rising waters, ya'll.
The timetable got pushed up a lot. Must have been the fear of decreasing oxygen and increasing water.
This is an insanely dangerous dive. three hours underwater. I don't believe the tanks hold that much air & they have to resupply. there's parts of the cave that are too narrow to get through without detaching the tank. The narrowest, i think, is 15 inches.
these volunteers are heroes.
praying for them all to get out safely.
For what it's worth, the families have already spoken out in support of the coach. Letters from the family have stated that they are not angry with the coach and ask him not to blame himself for the team's predicament. The coach is a Burmese immigrant and is extremely well liked in the local community.
@Oso Negro:
Must have been the fear of decreasing oxygen and increasing water.
Increasing water and the start of the monsoon season are the really vital concerns. Equipment has been brought in to pump oxygen into the area where the boys are stranded, but there is also the problem of CO2 buildup because the number of rescuers inside the cave. Pumping the water out has been the most important task as now the children are able to walk the last leg of the journey. A lot of surrounding rice farms have been flooded by the extracted water, but he community seems to be taking it in stride. If there's one thing the life of a Thai rice farmer teaches you its resilience in the face of hardship. It is unbelievably back breaking work.
I'm going to hold on to the beauty of the moment.
They went in as boys. They will emerge as men.
That said, international cooperation at its best.
"So the white people have to rescue the 5 Thai navy guys too?"
At least one of the foreigners is Chinese. I don't know where the rest are from
The dive team is being led by the two British guys who found them in the first place.
There are numerous other people as support crew in the caves, many of whom are divers.
But as for the rescue team of 13 divers, I have not been able to find info on their identities or nationality, except for the two British guys in charge.
Also - they found the boys (incredibly) but then the local authorities took over, brought in the Thai seals, and didn't use them at all. But it all reversed again after one of the Thai navy seals died, and now the British divers have been put back in control.
A fifth boy is out!!
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