Thailand - FOUND ALIVE - Officials Believe 12 Boys And Coach Trapped In Cave , 23 June 2018

[creepcrusher]

Rajprasong_News Analysis on Twitter

front: 3rd Army/US team discovers new 3rd fissure of 300 mtr depth & are exploring way to set comm gears to bring food to the trapped footballers, previous effort was not acknowledged. Army helicopter brings a small backhoe to work. "Ch3

 

[Hazelnutty]

Praying for the boys and their rescuers.

 

[creepcrusher]

Bad news. Dive team faces a new challenge.
Thanyarat Doksone on Twitter

 

[margarita25]

Bad news. Dive team faces a new challenge.
Thanyarat Doksone on Twitter

"Thanyarat Doksone
@8td

Although Pattaya Beach is less than 1k away from the junction inside #Thamluang cave, the Chiang Rai governor said they've got a big challenge: a tunnel they have to expand before getting through."

 

[katydid23]

"Thanyarat Doksone
@8td

Although Pattaya Beach is less than 1k away from the junction inside #Thamluang cave, the Chiang Rai governor said they've got a big challenge: a tunnel they have to expand before getting through."

OK...but how would the coach and the 12 boys get through? Did it get smaller somehow? UGH...

 

[creepcrusher]

OK...but how would the coach and the 12 boys get through? Did it get smaller somehow? UGH...

Because they didn't have oxygen tanks on their backs and weren't navy SEALS. Here are a few tweets just posted. One said they found a new route to try that will shorten the distance to 500M. Another said they are going to use smaller divers to try and squeeze through the tunnel. They obviously contradict each other. Hoping one is true at least.

Hathai Pia on Twitter
Piriyathep K on Twitter
Thaivisa on Twitter

 

[Elainera]

As I understand it the narrow tunnel is filled with mud and needs to be cleared out. Was probably wider when they boys went in.

 

[Elainera]

Jonathan Head‏ @pakhead

Divers at #thamluangcave have yet to reach 400m of high ground they got to last week, to be driven back by rising water. After that they have a few hundred m underwater, with a sharp turn, to reach Pattaya Beach. Need to clear mud from narrow tunnel to reach 1st high ground.

Jonathan Head on Twitter

bbm

 

[Elainera]

More rain. Posted 20m ago.

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Replying to @mthai

14.38 it’s raining right now, quite a downpour. the media has separated #ถ้ำหลวง #thamluang #thamluangcave

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[Elainera]

I think they are now about where it says "The depth of the water is 5m" in this map, or a little further?

patrice simondi on Twitter

 

[*Verdigris]

More rain. Posted 20m ago.
(snip)
14.38 it’s raining right now, quite a downpour. the media has separated #ถ้ำหลวง #thamluang #thamluangcave

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Noooo! I was so hoping that they were going to reach the group before it started raining again. Oh this just really sucks. Sorry for the crude language, but I'm ready to start pounding the walls and throwing things!
No more set-backs, please! Aaarrghhhh!

#MaeSaiMiracle !!!

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[*Verdigris]

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I wonder how the parents of the young coach are dealing with this. Not only worrying for their son, but they have the added burden of it being his responsibility, that all 12 boys are also in grave danger. That must be so very difficult for them. I wonder how they are being treated by the boys' families. I hope they aren't being shunned, or ridiculed in any way.
This is just so terribly, unbearably tragic.

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[Elainera]

Noooo! I was so hoping that they were going to reach the group before it started raining again. Oh this just really sucks. Sorry for the crude language, but I'm ready to start pounding the walls and throwing things!
No more set-backs, please! Aaarrghhhh!

#MaeSaiMiracle !!!

。。。

And the rain has stopped again

 

[KaaBoom]

CHIANG RAI: Navy Seal divers in flooded Tham Luang cave were on Monday afternoon within 500 metres of a chamber containing an elevated rock mound, nicknamed "Pattaya Beach" by cavers, which could have provided a refuge to 12 boys and their football coach trapped in flooded Tham Luang cave for more than a week when heavy rains flooded the cave, blocking the way out.

Progress has been slowed as divers need to widen parts of a narrow 100 metre stretch -- with sharp bends -- that they were unable to pass through without their air cylinders becoming jammed.

Chiang Rai governor Narongsak Osotthanakorn earlier said rescuers had managed to reach the "Sam Yak" three-way junction - and now the most critical section of the murky underground labrynth lies ahead.

"The Seal unit last night reached the T-junction and today they will press ahead to the left, but one obstacle we've found is a very small hole which we need to widen so that people can go through," the governor told reporters on Monday.

"This is today's focus. The passage must be penetrated. It is very narrow... They have not yet reached 'the (Pattaya) beach'," Mr Narongsak said.

Turning left from Sam Yak, the passage ascends, drops steeply and then bends to the left - and is not yet accessible to foreign divers and their equipment, the governor said.

'Pattaya Beach' is about two kilometres from the divers' forward command centre in the sprawling cave network's third chamber -- a total of roughly five kilometres from the main entrance of the cave in the Tham Luang Khun Nam Nang Nong forest park in Thailand's northernmost district of Mae Sai.

Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwon said in Bangkok that rescuers hoped to reach 'Pattaya Beach' Monday -- but the strong water current in the narrow passage presents a major obstacle.

All-out efforts continued to drain water from the cave and prevent fresh water from flowing into it, further raising the water level.

Above the cave, officials and volunteers were searching for shafts that might provide a back door into the cave.

Rescuers hack through rock less than 500m from 'Pattaya beach'

 

[IceIce9]

Noooo! I was so hoping that they were going to reach the group before it started raining again. Oh this just really sucks. Sorry for the crude language, but I'm ready to start pounding the walls and throwing things!
No more set-backs, please! Aaarrghhhh!

#MaeSaiMiracle !!!

。。。

This story gives me the same feeling as watching the attempted recuse of the little italian boy who fell down the well back in the 80s. I just wanted to shout at the tv in frustration! One rescuer had even reached the boy but was unable to get the harness on him and he slid father down the well.

The entire attempted rescue was broadcast live on tv around the world. Everywhere I went people were tuned in, watching every attempt and hoping against hope that we would be hearing good news. The story and rescue attempts was the top story around the world for three days.

I worked at a newspaper at that time and it was announced on the radio just before noon that they had reached him but he was dead. Our paper had gone to press at noon and it was too late to change the story so we were putting out newspapers with the headline “Rescue Near for Boy In Well.” Standing in the pressroom we all knew he was dead yet the papers rolling thru the presses had the outdated headline. Those papers would be delivered to homes, newsstands and paper boxes. It was an awful feeling.

Off topic, I know, but I have the same feeling of being caught between optimism and dread.

 

[Elainera]

There was a presser just now. Lots of technical information and details. Many pumps (25?) are in operation. Water levels are falling by 1cm/hr unless more water pours in. They have stopped water pouring in from one direction (from a creek) as I understand it. Holes are being drilled on top of the mountain. Passages explored inside the cave. The narrow passage mentioned earlier that leads to Pattaya Beach is still being widened - apparently not only mud moved out but also rocks being broken away. Divers that are smaller in stature are sent in now.
They hope to reach Pattaya Beach today. I hope so too!

I wonder whether all the boys know how to swim or have dived before. I hope none of them is scared about being under water when they get taken out.

@IceIce, that is a heartbreaking story!

 

[Elainera]

From pc:

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Replying to @mthai

[pc] about the question whether we can transport the children: after 10 days, the body wont release gastric juice anymore and uses fat instead. ppl normally can live up to 30 days. if children dont move much, their muscles might have a problem #ถ้ำหลวง #thamluang #thamluangcave

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Replying to @mthai

[pc] so the doctor will dive in first to see if they can be moved. if not, they’ll be taken care of inside the cave first instead of immediately taken out #ถ้ำหลวง #thamluang #thamluangcave

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[KaaBoom]

There was a presser just now. Lots of technical information and details. Many pumps (25?) are in operation. Water levels are falling by 1cm/hr unless more water pours in.

That does not sound good. The reports are that the water is 5 meters deep. So at 1cm/h, it would take over 20 days to drain the water out of the cave. That is if no additional water enters the cave.

 

[mom2four717]

What a tremendous amount of team work to rescue the guys! The rescuers are literally up against the forces of nature.
Holding all involved in the light. It is heartening to know how much people care about one another.

 

[Elainera]

That does not sound good. The reports are that the water is 5 meters deep. So at 1cm/h, it would take over 20 days to drain the water out of the cave. That is if no additional water enters the cave.

I think it's only at one spot where the water is so deep. Another tweet said (from the pc) that the water used to be head-high and now only knee-high in places. I think what's important is that there is air between the water and the rock so that they can swim rather than having to dive, because there's no visibility in the murky water.