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The whole world is watching this incident, so it is not surprising that ScubaBoard is watching it and commenting upon it.
I wrote many words but still missed the main points I suppose...@MikeyIdea I think you are reading too much into what I wrote. My only point was that it did not appear that the Thai Navy SEALS were cave divers, and that there were very experienced cave divers and rescuers on scene, so hoped that they would take their experience into consideration. THAT'S IT! If you think I said anything other than that, that's on you, not me.
It is good that "...Chiang Rai governor Narongsak Osottanakorn... also navigated the very same cave all the way to the end already 25 years ago, during the dry season." I'm sure that is very admirable, but did that make him an experienced cave diver and rescuer?
It is also good that "he's got 4! bachelor degrees and a master degree from the US". I have 2 bachelor's and 2 master's degrees. So what? I'd suggest to you that neither of us are any better qualified to rescue those boys based on our degrees.
From what I have read, two of the reasons that drilling isn’t the first option is that (1) the heavy equipment needs something strong, flat and stable to stand on to work, so they’d need to build a concrete road or platform to put it on, (2) the chamber where the boys are is very small and not safe to drill into (my guess is they’re afraid of collapse).
There have not been that many successful cave rescues. Not sure there have been any that are as complex as this situation with the number of people, the multiple sumps, the ongoing flooding, etc. it pretty amazing they were found alive at all.The people who know the most about cave rescues seem to be the most reluctant to speculate.
Actually those are the ones who's comments get dismissed and ignored amongst a flood of well intended silly ideas from folks with no ideas about the logistics of their 'simple' solutions.The people who know the most about cave rescues seem to be the most reluctant to speculate.
There are so many new articles in newspapers all around the world, so you don't know which one is right and which one just one to have a "breaking Fake story". Anyway, a belgian newspaper states that the boys are running out of oxygen and they are below 15%. O2 bottles would be brought in for help.