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Originally Posted by OmgGlutten!
The Thai cave story is just brutal. Really hoping they get them out of there and it does not take 4 months to wait for the rainy season to end. How can they mentally survive on a 15 foot strip of sand for 4 months and what if the flooding is worse than expected?
They are in a land locked region and apparently most of them can't swim. It is a very difficult swim out with no visibility in fast moving muddy water that takes hours to be made by pros. But what I am wondering is how frequently they can take breaks and stretch the dive out? Also, the kids are so tiny, can't they just have four experienced divers basically drag them out?
Underwater with no visibility is a really panicky situation. Add never swimming or diving in your life and it's ripe for disaster. If a kid panics in the middle and tries to swim up into a cavity - where there's no air - it could be disastrous for everyone.
Really weird problem. Maybe they can bore in from some direction.