Posted on 07/09/2018 6:32:59 AM PDT by Hostage
A dive team brought a fifth boy out of a cave in Thailand Monday and were working at lightning speed to recover his coach and seven soccer teammates still trapped underground a day after the first four boys were successfully evacuated in an international rescue mission that has gripped the attention of the world.
The latest rescue was completed just after 5 p.m. local time, 6 p.m. Eastern time, a source close to the rescue operation said, about six hours after divers entered the jungle cave to resume the operation to save the remaining members of the soccer team that has now been in the cavern for 17 days.
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And it is international news because as a species we tend to respond when children are in peril. It is a biological imperative to care.
I assume those helmets are underground communication devices....no?
He said that the boys were indeed wearing a full face mask as well as several wetsuits "to minimize heat loss.” This is because the water is very cold and they are “very skinny," he said.
The boys are attached to the divers with a small line called a "body line," which he says is "common to use in low visibility" in order "to minimize any kind of risk."
Yesterday, when he saw the kids in "Camp 6," he said they were “looking good considering the situation they were in."
Good news....i hope it continues....
That’s a great method as it can keep the kids calm. The kids do not know how to swim.
Also, parts of the choke points are NO VISIBILITY areas with rough currents, a combination of could cause a kid to panic as they become disoriented and full of fear.
Those cassettes can protect against bumping up against rock carried by high currents in a pitch black dark. And this goes on for miles. One can imagine an overwhelming fear striking each kid as they don’t know up from down or which direction. Their lives are in the hands of the divers.
Not sure......but it is noteworthy that Thailand internet access and other communication we have here in the states are certainly not the same. Even weather reports etc. are not quickly obtained or accurate as Thailanders have reported throughout this rescue. I suspect the rescue teams took that into consideration as there’s a great deal of ‘details’ they covered well in bringing this together.
But this is not just about the kids but about those who are going to such great lengths to get them home safe.
It has everything a great story needs, make 'em weep, make 'em laugh, make 'em wait.
And it has the virtue of being a true story with a happy (or at least semi-happy) ending.
How many other "kids in peril" stories can you say that about?
Most children in peril around the world are in war zones or in societies that have abandoned them because there is no means to care for them.
There are private rescue orgs that help such children.
To rescue such children requires commitment and logistics over a time period that is more manageable.
This story of the children trapped deep inside a mountain under perilous conditions is on a more extreme timeline where every minute counts toward saving lives. The oxygen levels, food and potable water (2+ weeks trapped without resupply), no light or devices as batteries go dead.
Hard to imagine 2 weeks inside a mountain cave unable to see anything, miles from the entrance with no way to get out, not knowing how to swim (which is actually good because a swim could take going under water for more than a mile), not knowing if anyone knows where you are, not knowing if there is or ever will be a rescue.
Nightmare. And to think some of the kids are only 11 years old.
I can’t argue with that. I just don’t get into this stuff really, Even the Baby Jessica story was sort of a back burner thing that I didn’t pay attention to. The one thing I remember from that story is something we can all learn from:
The 15 minutes of fame for the fireman who’s photo holding her became viral ended up being fata. He killed himself.
That is the single aspect of the story I remember.
I’ll bet you 10 to 1 some of those kids are now destined to be Navy Seals, Physicians, or both.
Obviously I’ve not been following the story. When a faint spark of curiosity about it wells up in my head, it’s always the same question: How did they find themselves in that situation in the first place. But it is so faint I’ve not bothered to find out. I’m more concerned about Trumps SCOTUS pick and the shenanigans in Europe.
IIRC, their ages are from 11 to 16.
Very likely.....or movie stars as the after photos, media etc. are surely going to carry this through to the last drop of water is squeezed out of it!
.....”Obviously I’ve not been following the story”.....
Yes ..that’s obvious.
When a parent has a healthy smiling 11-year old that they love and guide and one day learns that their child is missing deep somewhere inside a mountain, perhaps dying of hunger or suffocating from a lack of oxygen, or perhaps impossible to rescue, a darkness descends on the soul.
And when such parents learn their child has been found but that rescue may be impossible, that oxygen levels are depleting, that monsoon rains that caused the nightmare to begin with, are starting again, a primal instinct takes over all adults involved.
To see how people come together to figure a way out of the predicament that has a potential for fatal consequences on both sides, both rescuer, and rescuee, this is a story of human survival against the odds.
It becomes gripping as it takes over our most basic emotions. Because it’s not simply a straight walk into a cave, it is an almost impossible path to rescue and yet here we see these hero divers and support people come together and achieve the impossible.
I think this must also be a visual story. I’m guessing that those that get TV news are seeing a lot of video, artists conceptions (I heard about the water level and shape of the caves) and other visual information increasing the drama.
Since I see none of that, and it’s halfway around the world, it just has a much smaller impact on me, so it is less of a news story for me, personally.
Now, if it turns out the cave is leaking radioactive material that could make its way to Puget Sound, where my daughter lives, I’m gonna be more interested.
To be fair, the details of the story were NOT well-described until some of the recent rescues in the last 48 hours started to focus on just what all these people were up against.
“Boys Trapped In A Cave”
is a headline that can race past the focus of most people.
“Some Boys Rescued By Hero Divers”
is a headline a little more interesting.
“Rescue By International Divers Underway For Boys Trapped Miles Deep In Dark Flooded Cave For Two Weeks”
is a headline that grabs more attention. Once some of the details emerge, the story goes viral.
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