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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There is some ‘tradition’ of people going into the cave to sign their names. The further in they go, the more prestige it is.
Humans do stupid things.
“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?”
Go outside today, and then imagine that weather all year long. I suspect that caves are the only cool place in the country that kids can hike around, and also not get bit up.
Obviously what happened here will get a thorough review and who knows, maybe they’ll set up a drainage system so the caves can’t flood. In any case, had the kids not gotten caught there, they likely would have had great memories to last a lifetime...just bad luck this time.
Bad luck would have been had the coach not taken them to higher ground to escape the flash flooding....or they’d be having 13 funerals today! Those kids couldn’t swim!
We use to play in the roots of trees that were pushed over an embankment as it looked like a scene from Peter Pan in the yes of kids. It was well off the highway near a creek so we saw it as our private place to play. Never realized those trees could have fallen further into the creek by just playing and digging out the dirt four our tunnel city.
You must be clairvoyant...or, possibly a scriptwriter.
I read they were forced to go deeper to escape the flooding.
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Just to let you know you sound like an idiot.
You need to catch up. Try a search on cave to get to the earlier threads.
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If you really want to know, read the previous threads on subject !:(
My understanding is that it started innocently enough, but they became trapped by rising waters that blocked their return to the entrance, and as the waters rose ever higher they were forced back into the areas of the cave that remained unflooded. The waters continued to rise until they ended up where they were found. It was either back up into the recesses of the cave or be drowned.
If the coach is going to be charged with anything I imagine they'll wait until the rescue is complete. Personally, I don't think they'll charge him.
From what I’ve heard, this adventure is tradition for them. The team goes to a certain room in the caverns and the new players write their names on the wall.
I think that tradition will now end.
Actually, I knew that you were going to post that.
Same here
I think I’d leave the coach in there to find his own way out....just kidding. But what a freaking jerk this guy is.
I’ve had exactly the same thought.
If I was responsible for a dozen boys, there’s no way I would even consider leading them into such a dangerous environment. Cave exploration isn’t for amateurs,
That coach is going to have a lot of explaining to do.
that p-shop would make a nice poster.
LOL
You should see the moronic libs at Yahoo and how they slobber over that fraud.
They have to be Huff Po regulars.
....”Cave exploration isn’t for amateurs,That coach is going to have a lot of explaining to do”....
No he’s not.... Thai people understand their culture and way of life for their youngsters and this cave is part of what they do in their area. The parents and Thai people are grateful and thankful to the coach for ‘saving’ their kids life as he led them to escape the flash flooding waters to higher ground....none of these kids could swim.
“...If I was responsible for a dozen boys, there’s no way I would even consider leading them into such a dangerous environment. ...”
This is Thailand. Some of those kids have been riding motorbikes to school with 2 or 3 people aboard, with traffic zooming by. No helmets, no license. Not uncommon for even grade school kids. Getting into or on a vehicle in Thailand is far, far more dangerous than going into a cave the was dry at the time.
Thailand probably has the highest per capita rate of traffic fatalities. The numbers are skewed because they only include those who died right at the scene. Cops do not patrol the roads generally - no cruise cars.
I think in this case, some official(s) are just pounding their chests and saying what needs to be said politically, but not acted upon. Maybe they are ticked because part of the rescue money came out of their departmental budgets. That leaves less for corruption and makes for longer working hours.
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