Good grief, I just skimmed that but it’s amazing.
I’m sure one of the problems is even if they give these boys rudimentary training, they are small and still at risk of hypothermia and panicking if they try to get out underwater.
If the choice is between swimming out and waiting months for the Monsoon season to end then it wouldn’t have to be rudimentary training. If they spent a week giving daily scuba diving lessons to them they’s still be way ahead of the alternative. Being teenage boys I’d bet they’d be up for it.
> they are small and still at risk of hypothermia
Yeah, that’s another layer of difficulty to add. The videos I saw on the news, showed kids, but man, they were SKINNY kids. I know they’ve been low/out of food for a week, but they were very scrawny.
That would likely up the risk of hypothermia. Feed em’ some cheeseburgers for a couple weeks, while training them to not panic.
I dunno, I hope for the best. It just seems that if this was happening in Texas or Montana, we’d have those kids out already.
“...they are small and still at risk of hypothermia...”
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There are wet suits in kid sizes.