It’s a wrap!
They will likely be in quarantine for a week, some have lung infections, they’ve all been exposed to fungus and bat guano, so an abundance of caution. No one can go to the World Cup, of course. But it looks like a big tv and a live feed are in the works for their hospital stay! :D:D
Interesting behind the scenes correspondence between Elon Musk and dive rescue leader Richard Stanton. While I do think that Musk has been generally a good guy in his off-to-the-side role, it appears his ego was stoked here by the Thai acting governor’s summary dismissal.
Very nice!
Ale, that is an amazing work already – I find it uncommonly evocative.
Ale, that’s great! To me, you well convey the metaphorical weight (of relentless nature, of imperfect human technology…) pulling down the rescuer, constrasting with the lightness of the child — a lightness clearly only made possible by the rescuer’s sacrifice.
Great slideshow (although most of the pictures seem to be very low pixel) but terrible music; thanks for the link!
I don’t know when they will make the movie, but what a joyous ending to what could have been such a tragic story. I have no idea who any of the boys are, who the coach is, or any of the divers and yet, I felt such a profound sense of relief and happiness when I read the headline, They are All Out. Hopefully, they all feel well enough to watch the final World Cup games 
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Did the doctor and three Seals get transported to the hospital?
They’ve been livng in the same bat poop as the kids. They may require the same quarantine.
It’s so amazing that a rescue this large and complicated was successful. The one fatality occurred while staging supplies for the rescue.
There were so many things that could go terribly wrong. Now the kids can get treatment and resume their lives. Soccer practice in a couple months. 
He had a name. Saman Gunan, Sergeant Major, Royal Thai Navy (retired), age 38.
Remarkable! Incredible! I could not be more happy for all these people, team, coach and divers.
I’m really anxious to see if everyone is medically okay and hope they all go out and eat the biggest meal of their lives.
Maybe someone who has seen the Chilean miner movie can tell me, but how do movie directors show scenes that are in total darkness? Any light would be unrealistic, yet audiences might not like total darkness for long.
I hope a book is written about the rescue team. How it was assembled and profiles of the men.
This had to be one of the largest teams of international cave divers ever assembled.
Plus they had a large team of very proficient Thai Seal divers.
I would guess the internet diving boards played a part in recruiting so many international cave divers. Did they pay their own way to Thailand?
It’s a general commentary about the rescue procedure, esecially the technical aspects. I think it’s a generic documentary or training video. I also suspect it’s quite old (the voice-over, tone of voice, etc… is remeniscent of documentaries from, say, 40 years ago).
I’m quite certain it’s not a video of the rescue. On top of it, I doubt they would have wasted energy on filming, especially this quality of filming. Note how the water is crystal clear, the lightning perfect…
I wouldn’t. Would you be willing to risk your life or someone else’s to an unknown name on a forum? Instead I expect Thai officials contacted Thai cave divers who knew one or more top cave diving experts in Britain. And these knew other expert cave divers. And this connected personal knowledge generated the large group of volunteers.
I suspect the world of cave dive rescue is so small that once somebody has googled and found Rick Stanton then the rest falls into place very quickly.
Regarding the coach’s culpability one way or the other … here’s an article someone linked to on another board. Can any Australian Dopers vouch for for the journalistic integrity of the Perth Sunday Times tabloid?
It was probably fortuitous that Thailand is a mecca of both diving and spelunking. Seems there were especially a lot of ex-pat diving professionals living in Thailand.
Now that I think about it, it seems unlikely that the coach went in after them. If the kids went in by themselves and became trapped by floodwaters, then how could the coach have gotten to them?
Not saying this article was dead-wrong; afterall, it’s possible the coach swam through some mildly flooded passes and reached the trapped kids, after which time the flooding got worse and worse and drove them farther back in to the cave.
All still too premature to assign/absolve blame. Now that everyone is out, the kids and the coach will all tell their stories first-hand, and then we’ll know with much more confidence what really happened.