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.
(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...
The Post isn't fake. So go ahead and post a link to a newer and more credible story o the coach, how he saved the boys lives, just happened on a whim to wander by the cave entrance and saw their bikes....
We are talking about the stupid assistant coach who led the boys into the cave. The head coach was not involved in taking the boys into the cave. All these comments are about the assistant coach who was in the cave.
The coach the Fist sentence is referring to is OBVIOUSLY the assistant coach, who was the coach who brought the kids into the cave - no hero - could have killed them all.
Actually if one isn't confused, the Post story is 100% accurate referring to the assistant coach who brought the kids into the cave.
How did they get trapped in there in the first place?
Actually the assistant coach took them in the cave. It was the head coach that located the bikes. Link at post 120.
It started raining while they were in there and it was too flooded in areas to get out.
Sorry, I read further down that you’re on the up and up.
Awesome!!
Yes, that's what it sounds like.
Above is a good article with some background. They say the parents became concerned about the boys not coming home as it got later in the day. They reached out to the coach (assistant coach actually) - and he found their bikes at the cave and went in after them.
Although that begs the question on why they weren’t found for another 9 days. Did the coach not tell anybody where he was going? Perhaps he knew of their plans and figured “I’ll just go and get them.”
It was the assistant coach in the cave. The head coach was alerted by the parents.
Yes - it IS confusing! I have to remember though - this is the press. The few times that I have been involved in something and it got written about I think “But that’s not the way it happened!”
Between the possible language problems and the rush to be the first one out with the story I suppose? Regardless, it sounds like people going into the cave was very common. Some bigshot (governor?) of the area said something like “The boys in the city sit on their couches, the mountain boys explore caves and play in the forest - that is what they do.”
The more I read, it sounds like they take great pride in being hill country people. Like their team name - “Wild Boars” - I think I read it was also translated as “Hill Pig” or something!
Get the facts is always a better way before stating an opinion. The Coach is hailed as a hero to the parents of the kids and Thai citizens for saving their life.
He did not lead them off the soccer field nor into the cave...Don’t know where you’re getting this stuff but it’s wrong.
I believe the assistant coach is just 16 who took the boys into the cave.
I believe the assistant coach is just 16 who took the boys into the cave.
I agree that it sounds like it’s what the kids do there, similar to exploring the woods to kids here in the US.
From that paper I had read (Perth, Australia):
“Family members raised the alarm later that day. Where were they?
Their parents’ concern drove their coach 25-year-old Ekapol Jantawong, a stateless orphan who shared their love of football, to the cave. Near the entrance, he found their bikes, a discovery that meant he had to go deep inside to try to locate them and bring them back.”
Who knows? Perhaps the parents told them “their coach went”, and the reporter added the part about Ekapol, and not realizing he was the assistant coach?
It seems odd that if they new they were in the cave, why did it take 9 days to finally get to them? Although I’m sure there are all sorts of different pathways in that cave system to search.
I thought I saw 23-25 and the head coach was around 29
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