Dang!

I can't imagine being down there for 9 days in the dark.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/thailand-cave-navy-seals-prayer-hill-tribe-spiritualism-video-boys-soccer-football-coach-found-lisu-a8427896.html

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/07/02/asia/thai-soccer-team-time-line/index.html

They are not out of danger yet.

Now the rescuers have to figure out how to get them out because everything around them have flooded with water (from torrential rains) since they entered the cave 9 days ago.

Plus they have ventured almost 3 km deep into the cave.

I presume the soccer team coach who led these 12 boys, age 11 to 16, into the cave won't be a soccer team coach anymore.

More updated info:

https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/03/asia/thai-cave-rescue-questions-intl/index.html

They are almost 1 km deep down.

According to the map on the ^^^ page, they are not too far from the main cave.

Maybe move them there if there is more higher ledges and land in the main cave for them to stand on away from water and keep them there until the rain season ends or until the rescuers can find other exits?

I also read elsewhere that some of those boys don't even know how to swim. How are they going to cave dive out of there if that was the last option. Plus there is the language barrier. Some don't even speak English.

You will have to match each one of them up to expert cave divers that speak their language.

Plus being in the dark water that is described as like swimming through coffee, those kids can panic in a minut, losing their dive mask and oxygen snorkel putting both them and the professional cave diver at risk.

Especially at the parts where it's narrow and they have to remove their air tanks to squrim through.

 

Edited July 4, 20188 yr by j7wild

 

What compelled this stupid coach to take an entire soccer team of boys into the cave, with many of them that couldn't swim, without proper gear and equipment, plus what kind of training and experience does he has exploring caves ( I BET NONE ! ), without any water and food and medical supply.

Furthermore, if one of those boys is my son and that coach is my son's soccer coach, I only gave him permission to teach him soccer and didn't give him permission to take my son and his teammates on a field trip, especially something as dangerous as this.

All field trips have to be notified in writing to each parents and then approved or not approved by each individual parents in writing with a signature.

This coach needs to be made an example of after the come out of this cave hopefully without any casualties among both the children and the rescue personnel.

From:

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/07/05/thai-soccer-team-might-be-able-to-walk-out-caves-without-using-diving-gear-official-says.html

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The rescuers have made such progress draining water from the cave that the boys have a chance to walk out without resorting to using diving equipment, which initially seemed like the only option that could free the team.But monsoon rains are predicted again for Saturday, and could result in the boys and their coach being cut off for months, or having to make a treacherous swim to safety. It takes six hours for rescuers to reach the team and it's another five-hour swim out of the cave, meaning the young and inexperienced group would be under water for hours in dark caverns with low visibility, using unfamiliar equipment.

Edited July 5, 20188 yr by j7wild

https://www.wsj.com/articles/thai-cave-rescue-divers-make-final-push-to-save-remaining-boys-coach-1531203706

 

The Doctor/Nurse and the 3 Thai SEALS divers that have spent their time in there with the soccer team and the coach since they were found last week are still in there.