Posted on 07/10/2018 6:36:16 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
An elite team of Thai Navy SEALs and foreign rescue divers brought out the final four boys and their soccer coach from a flooded cave near the Thai-Myanmar border, extracting the team through a labyrinth of tight passages after they spent two weeks trapped in darkness.
The operation on Tuesday moved quickly, raising hopes that all 12 boys and their adult coach from the Wild Boars soccer team would be at the surface by the end of the day.
"We are not sure if this is a miracle, a science, or what. All the thirteen Wild Boars are now out of the cave," the Thai navy SEALs, which is helping to lead the operation, said on its Facebook page.
Earlier, the unit had written, "Today, the boar's pack will be reunited again."
One by one, the last of the remaining four boys were carried to ambulances that whisked them to evacuation helicopters and finally, on to the hospital.
BREAKING: Everyone at the press centre - volunteers and media - near the cave site just applauded and cheered as a helicopter flew overhead - flying one or more of the boys to the hospital in Chiang Rai? #ThaiCaveRescue @AFP
— Richard Sargent (@rsargent79) July 10, 2018 Still to emerge from the cave: a doctor who has treated the 13 stranded people after they were found last Monday, and three Thai Navy SEAL divers who helped with the complicated and precarious rescue operation.
The boys, ranging in age from 11 to 16, and their coach, 25, set out to explore the Tham Luang Nang Non cave system on June 23, but they became trapped after heavy rains quickly flooded passages. Divers finally located them on July 2, allowing emergency crews to send them food and supplies.
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its okay Theo...I only read about the coach yesterday...
“Keep the cave open, advertise it as a tourist attraction”
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It already IS a tourist attraction,and has been for many years, There are many hotels in the area because of the caves.
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The kids went on their own. The coach went to look for them and stayed with the kids.
The children should not be punished
The criminal perpetrator is the “coach”
he should be held on criminal negligence and attempted murder
The man must be removed from all future contact with these victims
He should be identified as a criminal felon
Very true. I heard the coach taught them to meditate to help them thru the days.
The children should not be punished
The criminal perpetrator is the “coach”
he should be held on criminal negligence and attempted murder
The man must be removed from all future contact with these victims
He should be identified as a criminal felon
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Oh, no. Not another one...
Theo admitted they were wrong. Maybe you should do some reading up on this as well before spouting such nonsense (this thread will provide all the information you need, by the way).
Why are you so judgements. First accusing the coach of being a molester and now judging Musk of self promoting? Bad day? Hope that’s all it is.
Great news... Prayers for the Thai Seal who was killed, but I’ve read that the coach was trying to use the cave as a team building trip...the storm came up without warning...
If this is the first times the caves flooded during monsoon season then I would agree.
So not true from all the reports out there. Can you post where you heard this.
The kids went in on their own as they frequently did. The parents asked the coach to look for them when they did not come home. The coach found them and stayed.
When the actual operation started, they kicked the media out of the area. I haven’t kept up much since then, but that might be why.
From post 17:
1. The Thai soccer coach did NOT lead the boys into the cave, he found their bicycles and went into the cave seeking them out. His presence was heroic as he helped calm them, rationed food, and led them in prayer.
2. The boys and the coach were driven further into the cave by waters rushing in from Monsoon rains. The boys did not know how to swim. Their only reaction was to run away. They ended up several miles deep into the cave from the entrance.
And from another post today:
How Buddhist meditation kept the Thai boys calm in the cave Vox ^ | 07/10/18 | Eliza Barclay
Posted on 7/10/2018, 8:59:18 AM by Simon Green
When the 12 Thai boys who were trapped in a cave and were rescued one by one were first discovered by British divers a week ago, they were reportedly meditating.
“Look at how calm they were sitting there waiting. No one was crying or anything. It was astonishing,” the mother of one of the boys told the AP, referring to a widely shared video of the moment the boys were found.
Turns out that their coach, Ekapol Chanthawong, who led them on a hike into the cave when it flooded on June 23, trained in meditation as a Buddhist monk for a decade before becoming a soccer coach. According to multiple news sources, he taught the boys, ages 11 to 16, to meditate in the cave to keep them calm and preserve their energy through their two-week ordeal.
“He could meditate up to an hour,” Ekapol’s aunt, Tham Chanthawong, told the AP. “It has definitely helped him and probably helps the boys to stay calm.”
Ekapol, 25, went to live in a monastery at age 12 after he was orphaned. According the Straits Times, he trained to be a monk for 10 years at a monastery in Mae Sai, Thailand, but left to care for a sick grandmother. He then was hired to be the assistant coach of the team, known as the Wild Boars.
Coach Ake, as he is known, still maintains close contacts at the monastery. The abbot there told the Wall Street Journal he’s “a responsible young man who meditates regularly.”
Please read Post #17 above before condemning the coach.
If my boys were trapped in a cave I’d hope a Ekapol Chanthawong was with them. And if my boys were rescued at 15, 16 or 17 years of age, after I held them close i would shake them asking what were you thinking? You let an 11 year old follow you? You should have known better!
May God be PRAISED!!!!!!!!!
You’re obviously uninformed.
Thank Gd and all those involved!!! So happy for the kids and parents and coach!
I posted in an earlier thread:
Humans do stupid things.
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Great post. That coach may have saved lives himself, and he is only 25!! He was orphaned, and training to be a monk.
I think I understand the confusion with who and why the kids were with.
It was the Assistant coach who took them. It was the head coach that was alerted by parents that the kids were missing.
Nopparat - head coach
Ekapol - assistant coach
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