Posted on 07/03/2018 12:24:45 PM PDT by sodpoodle
From the article “ That journey takes a healthy - and skilled - Navy SEAL diver about six hours.”
All the beaches they have in Thailand and these kids can’t swim? What the.......?
How wise is it to leave them where they are and cross your fingers hoping more rains don’t cause the water level to rise? The air supply is already so low that only 4 rescuers can be down there at a time. Imagine the bacterial levels after 4 months with them pooping and peeing. They’re all healthy with relatively minor injuries today so lets wait until those injuries get infected and kids start getting weak from sickness and fright and then try to get them out.
But you were kidding, right?
They don’t need a map. They now know the most direct route so send down a rope to lead the way out. There are places where they can float and relax before going back under the water. The tight space is near the entrance/exit of the cave so that’s a plus. But, it could be that just because grown men had to take off their tanks that little skinny kids may not have to or for less time.
Remember that 18-month-old girl Jessica that fell into a well in Midland, TX? The whole nation was riveted to that one. The well was only eight inches wide and the situation looked hopeless. But they got her out of there - I think it took about three days.
Now that makes me feel old. That was over 30 years ago and here is grown-up Jessica, in all her middle-aged glory.
The article also made it out that the kids became “rake thin” over 9 days time. The before pictures showed them already skinny. The msm always gives the straight facts, right?
I was not kidding. I’ll take the suggestions of the diving experts on the scene, over those of Pseudonymous Internet Dude.
I made sure my own children were confident swimming at an early age. I never gave them formal swimming lessons, I just made sure they were in the water quite a bit and they picked it up just fine.
How can you not teach your kids to swim? It's almost like giving them a delayed death sentence.
Wow. Thank you (/s) for making me feel old too.
Told my brother when he had babies he had just killed us all.
He’s like....whatcha mean?
Now we can see when a year has passed....and they are flying by.
I’ve got about 100 dives under my belt. Only had a couple of incidents but never anything really serious. Anything could have gone wrong and I would not be alive today. Had a friend who almost didn’t make it on a cave dive and that was enough for me to say I would not do it. Did a lake dive once to 80 ft and the visibility was so bad I had no idea were I was. Got vertigo and never did another lake dive.
Point is, when you are diving, ANYTHING can go wrong. Training children to get it right the first time is not something I would want to bet on. That said, I pray they make it. It’s in God’s hands now.
Thanks for posting that cross section, detailed graphic of where these boys are.
Prayers up.
Yes a 24 inch borebole down to the immediate area of where the boys are would expose them to potentially dangerous rock debris raining down upon them.
Point is, when you are diving, ANYTHING can go wrong. Training children to get it right the first time is not something I would want to bet on. That said, I pray they make it. It’s in God’s hands now.
I probably have over 1000 or more dives under my weight belt, and have dove everything from the Lake of The Ozarks, rivers, farm pond, and the Carribean. From ZERO visibility to over 100ft vis.
The worst thing that can happen is something goes wrong and you PANIC! Bad things happen unless someone who is trained is with you. I have trained 100s of divers over the years and can spot a panicked diver in a heartbeat.
The one thing that spokes a diver Especially a new diver is claustrophobia! Trying to teach those kids to swim then to dive that distance in a CAVE with near zero visibility would probably Kill most of them.
Could they not quickly acquire a slim one person capsule that would fit through the narrowest opening along the route. That way each kid wouldn’t have to learn to swim and use scuba gear, just lay back and breathe normally. Am I on to something?
I get that a capsule could induce claustrophobia, but like has been stated, the kids could be sedated. Git’r Done!
An oxygen supplied, water tight capsule just to be clear. I would hope someone in the operation is at least considering this.
I could see that working. As long there isn’t any tight corners to go around. Even if the kid panicked he would still be alright.
If you would breath pure oxygen below 33ft (one atmosphere) it would kill you. The pure oxygen will burn up or blow up your red blood cells in your system!
Right, compressed air. You could have removable weights to provide neutral buoyancy. At the dry part of the cave, you could remove the weights to enable “runners” to carry the capsule over the dry parts to the next submerged part where other divers would maneuver it on.
I’d say that’s the answer.
Coffer dam and pumps.
The kids would be able to walk out just like they walked in.
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