# Missing Soccer Team Found Alive in Cave **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 2, 2018, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-soccer-team-found-alive-in-cave/817173 "2018-07-02T17:03:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 18
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2018, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-soccer-team-found-alive-in-cave/817173/341 "2018-07-10T11:06:26Z")
So, once this is all over, do they leave the cave alone, or do they dynamite the entrance? ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2018, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-soccer-team-found-alive-in-cave/817173/342 "2018-07-10T11:14:26Z")
I think more typically for seasonally dangerous caves they put a locked gate across the entrance. If it’s safe you can get permission, if not you can’t get it. But that’s going to vary by location and local feelings on the matter. ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2018, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-soccer-team-found-alive-in-cave/817173/343 "2018-07-10T11:41:33Z")
> [@Ale](#): > > Last two on the way out, then wait for all the rescuers to get out safely and boy it’s going to be party time over there. I think the results so far have exceeded everyone’s early expectations, and are worth celebrating - but it’ll be a bittersweet celebration, given that one SEAL died during the rescue effort. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2018, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-soccer-team-found-alive-in-cave/817173/344 "2018-07-10T11:44:07Z")
> [@Ale](#): > > Last two on the way out, then wait for all the rescuers to get out safely and boy it’s going to be party time over there. Yeah, I’m sure they’ll tie one on. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2018, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-soccer-team-found-alive-in-cave/817173/345 "2018-07-10T11:56:36Z")
All out! Great job, rescue team! ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2018, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-soccer-team-found-alive-in-cave/817173/346 "2018-07-10T11:58:56Z")
Amazing news! Now just waiting for the rest of the dive team to emerge. What an accomplishment. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2018, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-soccer-team-found-alive-in-cave/817173/347 "2018-07-10T12:02:02Z")
Yay! Such good news! ---
**Author:** ![gracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8e7dd6/32.png) [@gracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gracer)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2018, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-soccer-team-found-alive-in-cave/817173/348 "2018-07-10T12:10:25Z")
We’re still waiting for the coach, no? I like him. You can’t live life not going into caves, not jumping into rivers, not climbing trees, not surfing the waves, not racing your bike down hill. All the fun has what-ifs and blame for the times the what-ifs happen. But when you look back you regret the times you didn’t go into the cave because you thought about all the bears and the floods and the dark. Edit: I see the coach is also out! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2018, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-soccer-team-found-alive-in-cave/817173/349 "2018-07-10T12:12:22Z")
No, the coach is out as well. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2018, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-soccer-team-found-alive-in-cave/817173/350 "2018-07-10T12:17:14Z")
I don’t know how to post my happiness in a way that’s not trite and dumb-sounding. But I am so happy they are all out safe. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2018, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-soccer-team-found-alive-in-cave/817173/351 "2018-07-10T12:19:57Z")
Wow. I never believed they would all make it. So glad. ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2018, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-soccer-team-found-alive-in-cave/817173/352 "2018-07-10T12:22:52Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > I don’t know how to post my happiness in a way that’s not trite and dumb-sounding. But I am so happy they are all out safe. Well said 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![thirdname](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@thirdname](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdname)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2018, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-soccer-team-found-alive-in-cave/817173/353 "2018-07-10T12:28:49Z")
I wonder what happens to all the equipment in the cave. Are they going to make trips to bring it out, or decide it’s not worth the risk and just leave it all there until the rainy season is over? ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2018, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-soccer-team-found-alive-in-cave/817173/354 "2018-07-10T12:32:17Z")
How long until this gets made into a movie? I have to admire the tenacity of the rescuers. One died a hero. The guy who first found him, suppose he had said “this is too far, I can’t make it back from here” and turned around? So much selfless bravery on the part of so many. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2018, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-soccer-team-found-alive-in-cave/817173/355 "2018-07-10T12:40:17Z")
Well done all! ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2018, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-soccer-team-found-alive-in-cave/817173/356 "2018-07-10T12:42:15Z")
> [@thirdname](#): > > I wonder what happens to all the equipment in the cave. Are they going to make trips to bring it out, or decide it’s not worth the risk and just leave it all there until the rainy season is over? The coursing water that carved these caves is prodigious in it’s volume and force. A long monsoon season is just beginning. I doubt very much they will leave stuff in the cave, it would be battered beyond useless, by the next dry season. More importantly it could/would clog an important drainage and runoff route, for a huge volume of water, which could cause enormous other problems when it reroutes itself as a result. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2018, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-soccer-team-found-alive-in-cave/817173/357 "2018-07-10T12:51:04Z")
My friend shared this video. Assuming it is actual footage, it’s remarkable. (Non Facebook folks should be able to see it) ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2018, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-soccer-team-found-alive-in-cave/817173/358 "2018-07-10T13:02:40Z")
Four rescuers as still inside the cave. Here’s hoping they all get out safely. ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2018, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-soccer-team-found-alive-in-cave/817173/359 "2018-07-10T13:08:00Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > My friend shared this video. Assuming it is actual footage, it’s remarkable. (Non Facebook folks should be able to see it) > > [Ko Aung Min](https://www.facebook.com/100003961716412/posts/1328667053942006/) If that is from the just-completed cave rescue: I hadn’t realized the team members were being carried through the passages on stretchers. The assumption had been that the kids were guiding themselves along with the guide rope, largely under their own power. That video would seem to mean that something was done to widen the 2’ x 2’ chokepoint and the U-trap part in the middle of the passage. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2018, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-soccer-team-found-alive-in-cave/817173/360 "2018-07-10T13:09:58Z")
> [@bordelond](#): > > If that is from the just-completed cave rescue: > > I hadn’t realized the team members were being carried through the passages on stretchers. The assumption had been that the kids were guiding themselves along with the guide rope, largely under their own power. > > That video would seem to mean that something was done to widen the 2’ x 2’ chokepoint and the U-trap part in the middle of the passage. I haven’t seen separate verification of the video (hence my disclaimer), but a Thai friend-of -a-friend posted it. I’m still trying to verify it though. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-soccer-team-found-alive-in-cave/817173.md?page=17) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-soccer-team-found-alive-in-cave/817173.md?page=19)