Found Deceased CA - Jie Song & Yinan Wang, 31, Sequoia National Park, 6 Aug 2017

[GigTu]

Posted this morning: they will be hopefully recovering the bodies from the red car also in the Kings River (Bhakapon Chairatanathongporn and Thiwadee Saengsuriyarit). The article mentions Yinan Wang and Jie Song but doesn't say anything about recovery of their vehicle unfortunately.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-thai-students-recovery-20170901-story.html

They are retrieving the vehicle and couple right now, as we speak. From the article:

The car, a red Hyundai Sonata, had plowed through a guard rail near Convict Flat and Horseshoe Bend on July 26, authorities say.

Authorities say that aerial photos show two bodies in the car. However, their identities will not be determined until autopsies are performed.

 

[GigTu]

http://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article170734067.html#emlnl=Breaking_Newsletter

Aided by a California Highway Patrol helicopter and special equipment obtained in Southern California, the Fresno County Search and Rescue Team has partially recovered a car carrying two Thai students that plunged off a cliff and into the Kings River in July.

Sheriff Margaret Mims said the helicopter lifted members of the team to the riverbank near the car, then used a hoist to pull the car to the side of the river. From there, Mims said, the recovery team hopes to be able to remove the bodies from the vehicle for identification.

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-st...alifornia-sheriff-pulls-car-from-raging-river

California authorities say they've recovered a car stranded in a raging river for more than a month believed to hold the bodies of two exchange students from Thailand.

Families of the two victims are at scene. Mims said a second car that plunged into the river nearby has been checked by deputies. However, that car is in a deep hole in the river, and removal of the car will come at a later date because of the difficulties involved, she said.

 

[Elainera]

Finally two families will get their loved ones back and can give them a proper funeral.

From GigTu's link:

a recovery team used a hoist to drag the car ashore.

Mims says a helicopter lowered the team members, who pulled the car 100 feet (30 meters) from the middle of the river.

The other car (with Jie Song and Yinan Wang) will be more difficult to retrieve I would imagine because it is completely submerged. Will they have to dive under the car to attach ropes to it, or how will they do it?

 

[GigTu]

It probably depends on if it's wedged or loose in the hole, and how deep it is. I think the depth is deceiving to the naked eye. If loose, my brain thinks that they could use a magnet or grabber to at least get it to the surface. Getting a tool of that nature to the site would probably require some construction first though, and I don't even really know if they do that sort of thing.

 

[Elainera]

Wouldn't it be easier if divers just get the bodies out? Now that the water is "calmer" it might be possible?

 

[GigTu]

Wouldn't it be easier if divers just get the bodies out? Now that the water is "calmer" it might be possible?

That seems like a very dangerous proposition but a great idea. I have no idea which route is the best to take in a case like this.

 

[dulcinea]

It makes my stomach turn thinking what both of these couples experienced. I am very familiar with this area as my family visits Sequoia/Kings Canyon National Parks every summer. We stay at the bottom of Kings Canyon. Each time we drive into the canyon my anxiety shoots through the roof. The drive is definitely not for the feint of heart. We were there about two weeks prior to these incidents occurring and the spot they seemed to have gone over is terrifying, yet absolutely stunning. I'm not surprised they are hesitant to recover the vehicles. I've never seen that river so high and angry and raging. I can't even begin to fathom how they will go about the recovery process.

 

[Gardener1850]

FRESNO (AP) — A recovery team using a helicopter and a winch on Friday dragged a car from the middle of a dangerous California river where it had been stranded for more than a month and freed two bodies inside believed to be a pair of exchange students from Thailand.

Friday’s recovery effort did not include a second car in the same stretch of the river believed to hold a missing couple from China. Publicity of the first stranded car and the trail of wreckage led investigators to the white car submerged nearby.

Authorities have linked it with married couple Yinan Wang, 31, and Jie Song 30, missing seen since early August. The river’s flow has to drop even more before it’s safe for the second recovery, officials said.

http://fox40.com/2017/09/01/sheriff-2-bodies-pulled-from-kings-river-gorge/

 

[Gardener1850]

This Thai video has footage from the recovery effort and after the bodies are pulled up to the road they are on stretchers (completely covered) in front of memorials. There is a monk speaking and people praying (I assume) in Thai over the bodies:
[video=youtube;x0CGUXIBjFI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0CGUXIBjFI[/video]

Very heartbreaking but touching to see that the authorities allowed a service like this before taking away the bodies. RIP Golf and Min.

 

[Elainera]

http://fox40.com/2017/09/01/sheriff-2-bodies-pulled-from-kings-river-gorge/

This looks dangerous. I wouldn't want to be the helicopter pilot! They did a great job.

 

[LisaWL7TR]

Bodies recovered from Kings River confirmed to be those of missing Thai students

The bodies of University of South Florida exchange students Pakapol Chairatnathrongporn, 28, and Thiwadee Saengsuriyarit, 24, were recovered Friday and identified through fingerprints over the long weekend, said sheriff’s spokesman Tony Botti.


http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-missing-thai-students-kings-river-20170905-story.html

 

[whitelilac]

Seeing the "deceased" change, I thought they had also confirmed the deaths of Yie Song and Yinan Wang, the couple in the white car that I thought to be still submerged.
I don't believe they have retrieved that car yet, have they?

As for the two Thai students Pakapol and Thiwadee, my heart goes out to their poor families. They were so young, their whole lives ahead of them. So very tragic.

 

[Elainera]

Seeing the "deceased" change, I thought they had also confirmed the deaths of Yie Song and Yinan Wang, the couple in the white car that I thought to be still submerged.
I don't believe they have retrieved that car yet, have they?

As for the two Thai students Pakapol and Thiwadee, my heart goes out to their poor families. They were so young, their whole lives ahead of them. So very tragic.

You're right. The thread title should not be changed yet. I will alert a mod.

 

[GigTu]

Bodies recovered from Kings River confirmed to be those of missing Thai students

The bodies of University of South Florida exchange students Pakapol Chairatnathrongporn, 28, and Thiwadee Saengsuriyarit, 24, were recovered Friday and identified through fingerprints over the long weekend, said sheriff’s spokesman Tony Botti.


http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-missing-thai-students-kings-river-20170905-story.html

Pakapol Chairatnathrongporn :rose:
Thiwadee Saengsuriyarit :rose:

Still unrecovered: Yie Song and Yinan Wang

 

[LisaWL7TR]

Bodies recovered from Kings River confirmed to be those of missing Thai students

The bodies of University of South Florida exchange students Pakapol Chairatnathrongporn, 28, and Thiwadee Saengsuriyarit, 24, were recovered Friday and identified through fingerprints over the long weekend, said sheriff’s spokesman Tony Botti.


http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-missing-thai-students-kings-river-20170905-story.html

Ooops I am so very sorry....
O/T I came on here last night to escape from news I learned about an ex boyfriend/friend that was a cop. Abuse of his role and now he is locked up. I couldn't understand why I hadn't heard from him....sigh.
Again sorry for not paying better attention. My brain was in a fog.

 

[Lilibet]

Ooops I am so very sorry....
O/T I came on here last night to escape from news I learned about an ex boyfriend/friend that was a cop. Abuse of his role and now he is locked up. I couldn't understand why I hadn't heard from him....sigh.
Again sorry for not paying better attention. My brain was in a fog.

Hugs to you Lisa. :heartbeat:

 

[LisaWL7TR]

Hugs to you Lisa. [emoji813]beat:

Thank You, Lilibet! [emoji179]
I am pretty good today I just had to process it.

 

[GigTu]

Lisa.... :grouphug:

 

[LisaWL7TR]

Lisa.... :grouphug:

Thank You, GigTu[emoji179]

 

[GigTu]

http://www.kusi.com/story/36349800/...to-contain-bodies-of-missing-san-diego-couple

Nearly two weeks after pulling a pair of bodies out of a car stuck in the swollen Kings River east of Fresno, a sheriff's official said Tuesday there's "definitely a chance" recovery crews won't be able to gain access this year to a second car that's submerged in the river and believed to contain the bodies of a San Diego couple.

"There's not much we can do. This winter was like no other and there's water flowing a lot longer into later months than in past years," Fresno County Sheriff's public information officer Tony Botti told City News Service.

The bodies of the San Diego couple &#8212; Yinan Wang, 31, and his wife, 30-year-old Jie Song &#8212; are believed to still be trapped inside the Focus <snipped> ... the San Diego couple's car, and likely their bodies, remain under water.

"Since the wreckage is submerged, we have to wait for the river to go down considerably more," Botti said. "The goal is to try to get it out, or at least the people anyway. We're assuming they're in the car because nobody has been their bodies." But to reach the Focus and Wang and Song's remains, officials need the water to drop below a certain flow rate. Because of last winter's heavy snowfall and continued runoff, the river may not recede that much this year.

"The flow rate there is about 380 (cubic feet per second),'' Botti said. "It would almost have to go close to zero for us to reach them. If it gets to 100, we'll have a chance." Botti said deputies are regularly monitoring the river, but there's "definitely a chance'' they won't be able to make a recovery attempt this year. "If we get more storms, that will push us back,'' Botti said. "If it slows down, that favors us.''