Posted on 07/09/2018 9:07:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Dive teams in Thailand rescued four more boys from a flooded jungle cave Monday and were confident they will also be able to save the remaining four boys and their adult soccer coach still trapped in the cavern.
Chiang Rai provincial Gov. Narongsak Osatanakorn, speaking as the second day of the rescue mission got underway, predicted that all 12 of the boys on the soccer team and the coach will be safely brought out of the labyrinth where they went missing 17 days ago.
"I insist that all 13 will be safe and sound," Osatanakorn said.
Rescuers are hustling to bring the Wild Boar soccer team members out of the Tham Luang Nang Non cave before a monsoon rainstorm that is forecast for the area strikes, which could flood the cave again.
After the first four boys were brought out of the cave to safety Sunday, rescuers had planned to take a 10- to 20-hour pause to replenish the cave holding the remaining boys with oxygen and give the team of 18 divers who have been leading the boys on a perilous journey to safety a chance to rest. However, the rescue effort resumed a few hours earlier than planned on Monday.
About six hours after the rescue effort started again Monday, divers emerged with the fifth rescued boys in tow about 5 p.m. local time.
Over the next three hours, they brought out three other boys, the source close to the operation told ABC News.
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A salute to the diver who lost his life in the rescue. Hopefully his will be the only life lost.
Keep praying...We’re almost there....
Prayers, prayers, and more prayers.
What an overwhelming task.
Am I the only one wondering why on earth the coach let the team go into this cave so deeply? And how did they get beyond the small curve that they are having so much trouble traveling now? Will the coach be charged with negligence?
It wasn’t full of water when they went through the choke point.
At 1 PM Eastern, it will be Tuesday in Thailand.
Yes!
I wonder how they would ever have known to go thru that choke point to begin with. If it had even a small amount of water in it, it would appear as a puddle to them, leading to an abyss if anything. I suppose the alternative towards where they came from looked as frightening as where they were about to go.
Good questions. I think the coach was negligent, but not sure if he’ll be charged for this. If anything he just made a dumb decision. It just had so much consequence for it.
It will be based on the reported realities, but (again, betcha) there will be a female of color who overcomes some major male-caused adversity to force a different rescue scheme on the rescue team; and...
(cough, cough) "Climate change" will be the overall culprit, and it will still be PDJT's fault.
No takers?
He probably won’t be charged, but he may end up wishing he was in police custody before its all over.
Prayers.
You forgot the tranny/lgbtqabcdefg part
He will be the last one out for sure.
But you have to ask what the parents were thinking too. Even expert spelunkers understand that going into caves is dangerous.
Plus, the coach is relatively inexperienced: he's only 25. The (front end of the) cave system is a very popular tourist and kids-adventure spot, and he might have thought it was safer than it turned out to be.
I suppose the coach's thinking was, "It's filling up with water behind us (from the sudden monsoon rain)--- the only way we can go is forward." Even if they're squirming through a passage as narrow as a coffin.
My God. Please Lord, keep the trapped people safe. Them, and their rescuers.
When liberals try to put today’s standards on things that were accepted 150 years ago we object. When traditions that go on in a third world country happen, we can’t apply our standards to them either.
Sounds like all you need to do is write a script. You probably got a winner on your hands.
Havent gone far enough.....
“...”Climate change” will be the overall culprit...”
The climate changed alright. From dry to wet! They have a narrow window of opportunity to get them out before all hell breaks loose.
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