Posted on 01/27/2022 11:08:21 AM PST by Brookhaven
Full of actual footage underwater and in the cave.
I had no idea the success or failure of this mission hinged on two middle aged, weekend hobby-divers from the UK--one a retired fireman and another who described himself as a "loser" when it came to sports.
What a nightmare. Can’t imagine being the victim OR the rescuer in this situation!
It was excellent. The hobby cave divers had unique skills and experiences that were absolutely essential, were probably the only people in the world who could have pulled this off. And they were only recruited asap because one of them had a Thai girlfriend who just happened to have gone home, and who alerted the authorities that there were these crazy guys who did this sh*t for grins, and who contacted her boyfriend back in England, who got on the cave divers network, and…
So, Brookhaven, this is already available on NatGeo?
I too don’t recommend movies a lot, but this one is worth your time!!
The only thing I remember is Musk calling some guy names, and lawsuits that went away somehow
Didn’t Elon Musk call one of those guys a pedophile or something like that?
I watched it a few weeks ago. Pretty interesting. The rescue was, for all practical purposes, impossible. It took more than two hours to swim to where the boys were, in an underwater cave with passages so tight they had to take off their tanks and push them in front.
The guys who performed the underwater rescue were doubly heroic because, had they failed, the Thai government would probably have prosecuted them for murder.
This is an excellent documentary. It really hits you that they really didn’t think they would be able to save them all.
If I recall, the “loser” got knighted by the Queen of England, and will (hopefully) never pay for another beer the rest of his life - not bad! The documentary was powerful, I watched it with my kids and they were mesmerized.
As a beyond rich african americn, musk has excellent lawyers
A JDart… who knew. Thank for the heads up.
I remember that Elon Musk offered to try to help. He got into a spat with some middle-aged guy who was involved in the rescue attempt and called him a pedo. Always wondered whether there might be some civil litigation that resulted from what seemed like a very public defamation. Or perhaps Elon was just using an abbreviation for pedagogical genius.
“...but without the international volunteer cave divers that were flown in (reluctantly by many of the Thais leading the mission)...”
I recently started watching a youtube channel called Adventures with Purpose. A small group of divers that search bodies of water with their fancy fish finders (including side-scan sonar) looking for missing persons in their vehicles. Some are a few days old, some are 30-years old.
Most of the police have been pretty good, but there are some that don’t want their intrusions at all. In the last couple of years they have found something like 20 people. Some in only a few hours! Lots of these small towns don’t have the resources, but some of the towns/cities you sure wonder what the police were doing.
Taking your gear off to get through small passages is standard practice for cave diving, something I did all the time. But I never penetrated farther than a couple hundred yards, and I can’t fathom the skill and knowledge, not to mention the courage it took to pull this off.
Yes, Elon wanted to be the hero. He designed some high tech rescue pods that he expected divers to take into the caves to rescue the kids. Vernon Unsworth, the guy with actual expertise in extreme cave diving said it wouldn’t work, so Elon called him a pedo, a child rapist, etc. Unsworth sued. Most people thought he had an open and shut case, and Musk was encouraged to settle. He didn’t. Musk went to court and won.
I saw the movie. Worth it!
I think I might take up the hobby of exploring open fields.
Adventures with Purpose are good people.
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