Thai cave rescue - One of the divers has died

Fantastic.

Fingers crossed for the remaining few. I imagine they will be the weakest swimmers, followed by the coach last.
 
The figure of 6 has been revised to 4 confirmed evacuated safety to hospital. Operations head has said rescuers need 10 hours before the next 4 come out
 
Good news. Hopefully the rest come out too. I wish I could see more technical coverage of the rescue operation via cameras. Would be interesting to see in more length. But the main focus at the moment is getting them.out safely

Colleague in work apparently knows of one of the British divers that found them.
 
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So in the end, they did the most simple thing, put the kids in some swimsuits, gave some basic lessons, gave them a oxygen tank, tied lines to them and swam and pulled them out and 4 in one go too.
 
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So in the end, they did the most simple thing, put the kids in some swimsuits, gave some basic lessons, gave them a oxygen tank, tied lines to them and swam and pulled them out and 4 in one go too.
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Aside from there is nothing simple about it and it is a highly dangerous operation that they've had to resort to due to the proximity of incoming weather which has been forecast as severe and could easily undo all the progress they've made so far - meaning even if rising water levels stop short of where they are still the oxygen/CO2 situation is likely to become fatal.

EDIT: This Sky article puts it a bit more realistically https://news.sky.com/story/thailand...r-divers-in-very-high-risk-operation-11430082 than the BBC one which kind of makes it look like a much easier operation.

"It's a highly dangerous operation - I can't stress that enough. If it goes wrong there's no way out. If they run out of air you have got a big problem, it's very, very dangerous - there's no second option really," said Mr Faulding

He added: "It's a major feat of physical endurance just to get the [air] cylinders through. The physical side will have a heavy effect on the rescuers - they have got to be very fit to do this."
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If you think it’s simple then I’d recommend doing some cave diving then when you’re experienced take a child with you, there’s very few divers in the world who would be brave enough and capable of this rescue

It’s easy to think these things are easy when sitting on whatever device but it really isn’t and was the riskiest move for both the kids and the divers, probably wouldn’t have even been attempted if it wasn’t for the potential for the cave to be completely submerged in the next few days.

The divers in this rescue are amazing and have put their lives at serious risk, I hope they receive some huge recognition as it’s well deserved



Edit: and just to add, diving is extremely exhausting , moving all that gear through water isn’t easy and it’s slow progress, you also have to carry it to all the entrance points etc

So along with the very technical side of it you need a lot of physical endurance
 
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