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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?
sounds like they're worried they will run out of oxygen in the chamber and that the rising waters in the next few days will threaten to inundate their location. They're going to try to swim them out in the next few days.
Also it looks like it would be three different dives separated by long stretches of scrambling/climbing. And they're trying to pump the water down so that the kids mostly have air above their heads. But it isn't just stagnant water, it's a goddamn underground river, that's why they can't really pump it out completely. Or rather, it's like three different underground rivers, so pumping out the base doesn't do anything for the most treacherous parts.
As far as divers dragging panicy kids along, an experienced diver died the other day when he was just responsible for himself. Sounds like its hard enough to take care of just yourself. And that "narrow flooded passage" is 70 cm wide. And these kids didn't know how to swim. Jesus christ.