Boys from an under-16 soccer team and their coach wait to be rescued after they were trapped inside a flooded cave in Chiang Rai, Thailand, July 3, 2018, in this still image taken from a Thai Navy Seal handout video.
Why don't they just provide air tanks, and a rope?
(Maybe I am not understanding)
But it seems to me if they can find them, they sure should be able to rescue them.
No?
I wonder if the cave exploration, was a spur of the moment decision?
Boys from an under-16 soccer team and their coach wait to be rescued after they were trapped inside a flooded cave in Chiang Rai, Thailand, July 3, 2018, in this still image taken from a Thai Navy Seal handout video.
I’d think they don’t want folks trying to get out, even with scuba gear, from getting snagged and drowning.
“It’s one of the longest cave systems in Thailand. It’s about 10 km (6.2 miles) long,” Reymenants said. “They’re exactly stuck in the middle of this system, meaning that yes, it’s a huge way to make it through, especially while swimming.”
But because most of the children, whose ages range from 11 to 16, can’t swim, the easiest rescue option would be to “keep pumping water out of the cave.”
3.1 miles is a long way in a situation like this.
The way I understand it is, it was extremely difficult and hazardous to get to them, requiring Navy SEAL-level skills, so if they tried to extract them, the kids would need diving skills and gear, and being untrained divers would be at risk of panicking but there is nowhere to come up. So they could panic or make some simple mistake with their gear and drown. It’s apparently a long way to go.
I can’t believe it. They finally found a way to make soccer exciting.
Some of the passages they have to go through are very tight and underwater, and diving equipment can get hung up or divers can entangle each other; the kids aren’t experienced divers and have to be taught how to breathe from tanks and even if they pick up the on-the-spot training quickly, there’s a huge risk one or more might panic or get confused trying to squeeze through these passages in water that is murky and maybe get stuck, blocking escape for the rest. After going without food for such a long time they are going to be a little weak. The rescuers’ll have to have a plan for anything that could go wrong before pushing ahead.
You expect kids that can’t swim to go cave diving?
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3668144/posts?q=1&;page=112#112
Earlier thread with good information and discussions.
Prayers for everyone.
the enterance of the cave is now below water level .
the only way for them to get OUT is if they wear SCUBA
and dive under water and are physically lead OUT by pro divers
Seems that way to me, but then I'm not some super duper cave expert type. (They probably over think every detail of the rescue.)
None (or at least some -- reports vary) of the kids can swim.
And the passages are so narrow that they'll fit just one man at a time with one air tank.
So, at least part of the way, the children would have to be swimming alone in zero-visibility. The sheer panic of a non-swimmer in those conditions might well not be worth the risk.