Note the caption: “The boys were brought out like that.”
My French isn’t very good, but I don’t think this is footage from this rescue operation.
For one thing, reports are that 2 divers accompany each kid and that video shows 3-4 escorting the prone person. For another, look at the visibility: there’s no silt in the water at all.
ETA: I sure am glad to see that everybody got out!
There’s a fat guide rope shown with about 28 seconds left in the video. I had read earlier on that the line cave divers use to mark passages is thin like fishing line, and that threading through a fat rope (meant for people pulling themselves) was unusual. When I saw the rope, it made me think that the video could be of the recent rescues. But then, I’m sure the fat guide rope thing has been done before, even if it is not typical.
I saw that caption and assumed it was imprecise English.
But you’re probably right- I wasn’t sure myself initially and I haven’t found confirmation., so now I doubt it.
Wonder what it is though!
I’m guessing less than 2 years.
Amazing job by a very skilled team of divers and rescue personnel.
Very happy that the entire team and coach are safe.
Hopefully the doctor and Thai Seals will emerge soon.
French narration on that video, so maybe a francophone Doper can translate a bit.
From looking at the equipment on the divers in the video it looks consistent with what we know about the Thai rescue. The person on the stretcher is breathing through a full face mask, for example. And the person posting the video to Facebook has several more videos that seem to be of the Thai rescuers doing their work above water.
The British team of divers were literally out of line and preparing to turn around when they initially found the trapped kids. Both the divers and the kids could be said to have been at the end of their rope.
As I mentioned earlier in the thread, I suspect people started working on screenplays days ago.
The last rescue divers and medics are now also out of the cave.
What I wouldn’t give to be at the party that’s going to follow!
CNN, and it could not have been said better.
Great news! Saw/heard this on broadcast media, or online?
I can’t believe how happy I am to have been wrong at their prospects and how ignorant I was about the capabilities of the rescue team.
I thought there was no way. That the rains would come, the water level would rise and then game over.
What a heartbreak that one person did lose his life. I hope he gets a school named after him.
Where did you see that, I’m curious? All the boys and the coach were out a little bit ago, but I thought we were still waiting on the dive team.
That’d be such great news.
What great news. True heroes there.
The video is from some different rescue. Here’s the original, which is at least eight years old. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIBoZylISbg
Thanks for finding that!
Amazing video, if not relevant to this rescue.
Channel News Asia, Rescue day three, as it happens
9:15 Thai time, last four navy seals and the army Dr emerged from the cave.
The clean up at the site have begun.
As has the rejoicing!
Fantastic!!!
Amazing.
Also you can watch the rescuers press conference on the live feed, streams free.
It wasn’t so much doubt about their capabilities as it was concern about the magnitude of the problem. Those kids were really deep in that cave, weakened by starvation, and the monsoon rains were coming; when they were first found, it surely didn’t seem realistic to expect that they’d all make it out, even with the best resources available. Glad they took their time sorting it all out; careful planning and staging of rescuers and supplies along the route likely played a huge factor.
Today me and a flu left work early, so I had time to do this, still a work in progress but looking OK so far.