Thai Cave kids | All 12 boys and coach rescued from cave | visiting United
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Cave diving is fun, but this is sort of nuts. Absolutely nuts. Its miracle they've got there in first place.
Yes!
excellent news! credit to the boys for staying calm for all this time and wow to the people involved in the rescue. Get them all out get that fried chicken ready they've all been looking forward to!
One thing I've been struggling to find is how on earth did they get there in the first place, I thought there was only one way in?
it wasn't flooded when they went in
More boys are close to the exit now
Seems like they are exiting a lot quicker than the estimated time. Probably due to the fact that a lot of it is walkable now compared to before.
I think it's great they're rushing through now. The water levels must be low, given the current speed.
Yeah, it appears they did a great job pumping out the water
Did they go through all the narrow gaps on the way in?
idk, but it started flooding not long after they went in and they basically had to keep going away from the water
But how about that 35cm space part? how can they got pass it in first place even when it not flooded?
none of them are obese
The first kids were out 3 hours of schedule apparently. Guess that's only possible if most of their journey wasn't underwater as against earlier expectations.
Fourth out apparently, that's the first group done
No one seems to know that. Maybe there's a different route.
Maybe there was another route they went through but it collapsed/is no longer accessible?
. I know from the picture of them. But surely, you know what i mean. Have you ever been cave diving before? Those kind of space that surely should be evaded at any cost if possible. But well, since they are all kids, maybe it wasnt come to their mind at all.Rain is forecasted for later so if things are going well it's expected they make the best of the favourable conditions and rush them out as quickly as safely possible.
Apparently they we're visiting "Pattaya beach", which is a known hangout spot and it comes after navigating all the tiniest sections (when going in). It's from here that it wasn't known where they went.
It was reported that they had been to the cave before so they weren't totally new to the idea. Those places might be tight but when you're relaxed and not expecting to be flooded it's probably a lot more doable. Unaware of the possible dangers I can see them doing it without too much trouble.
Feck that.
This brings back flashbacks to the time I went caving in the Brecon Beacons. Had to crawl through a section called the letter box, probably the coldest water i’ve been in.
Found a video of that section
Has no one ever been caving? Never done it under water but have been through crevices that are so tight you feel them gripping your body. The darkness in a cave when you turn your lights off is like you've never experienced.
edit: @Dan has
edit: @Dan has
My dad was a potholer, one of his mates got stuck and died. This put me right off. Been cavern diving (never away from direct sunlight), that was nervy on its own.
There'll probably be much more details coming out in the next weeks about the operation and where the kids were at the moment they saw the flooding coming towards them.
Reports that a fourth ambulance has been sent.
Those videos look terrible to watch. Imagine being there.
Those divers are absolute heroes regardless of the epilogue.
Those divers are absolute heroes regardless of the epilogue.
One code red.. Hopefully he gets the full attention ASAP.
I saw on the Guardian that the doctors who watched the boys created a priority list with the weaker being taken out first. I expected it to be the other way around, but if these that already came out were in fact the weaker ones, we can only be positive about them all making it through.
Code red? How bad is that?
Another 4 kids at chamber 3, aka the base camp of the divers.
Yup, I think they switched about the plan. Hopefully not because the weaker ones were critical or something.
A kid died at one of the sites I used to go a few years after the last time I went. Flash flooding. I read that underwater caving is the most dangerous sport in the world with 1% of participants dying every year.
There's no way in hell they'd prioritise the stronger ones!