You were correct.
Since they couldn’t swim this makes sense.
The main thing is that they were rescued successfully. Thank God.
If any of them were very claustrophobic the rescue could have come to a halt if they were screaming.
Makes sense. I posted that they were talking about it and wondered if they had done it. It was a good idea.
I have some training in recue/recovery/cave diving. I have also taken a “Slam” course in rescuing panicked swimmers. This seemed logical from the start. Prior to scuba training and quite a bit of experience I would have welcomed being sedated for this rescue.
I’m sure the familes don’t care. I can understand why this was needed. That journey sounded terrifying for anyone, of any age. Moreso if you don’t really know much about swimming or breath control. This wise choice helps to balance the unwise choice of going down there in the first place.
This was a very impressive way to get them out. Tip-of-the-hat to the folks who came up with this plan. It worked!
It makes sense that they would sedate the boys. I wonder what they used. My guess is a benzo like ativan or Xanax. From experience I can say that 2 mg of ativan will clam you down enough to make you sleep.
Facebook video posted on the Thai Navy SEALs page:
https://www.facebook.com/ko.aung.1848/videos/1328666757275369/
23 million views — so far
Impressive how ever they did it. All 13 rescued.
I told my wife a cpl of days ago they put the kids in LaLa land before bringing them out. She argued.
I showed her the articles that said so today.
Her response: You always think you are right
Mine: I usually am
Will be sleeping in the spare bedroom tonight. LOL
Tomorrow I will show her this video.
A) it’s ok because it worked
B) it’s ok that they didn’t announce it to the world because criticism might have stopped the rescue effort
C) WHATEVER IT TOOK TO GET THEM ALL OUT SAFELY.
Everybody go to Youtube and see it.
A few vids, 6, 5, 3 etc minutes.
PTL
I do not care how they did it. They were successful and those divers risked all to bring those boys out. Last week we lost one of those hero divers.
The concept of diving in the dark with no oxygen above at the surface as their was no surface is terrifying. Those divers were incredible. They were totally dependent on their equipment and oxygen supply. A failure of equipment was death.
Sedate and secure regulator well where it can’t come off
Sounds like a plan for inexperienced to PADI sorts
Given a diver died during the prep work, I imagine it was a difficult process getting in and out. Last thing they would have needed was one of the boys panicking.
Didn’t spent a lot of time following as I had other things going on, but this makes perfect sense to me - be interested to see how they rigged the breathing up on the stretcher with the kids out.
The new information is correct.