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Risky Thailand Cave Rescue Relied On Talent, Luck—And On Sticking To The Rules

posted by mrpg on Monday July 23 2018, @11:33AM   Printer-friendly
from the H2O dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Last week, the world was riveted by the successful rescue of a youth soccer team as they and their coach were pulled out of a flooded cave in Thailand. The team had been stranded on a narrow rock shelf in the dark for two weeks, the way out blocked by turbid stormwater. The rescue involved far more than a few divers putting on gear and heading into the cave—it required a tremendous amount of technical skill and posed extreme danger.

But why, exactly, was it so dangerous? And what would it feel like to dive in those kinds of conditions?

But to answer the second question, I decided to open my logbook and go back to a dive from many years ago—well before I was diving professionally. As a few select passages below highlight, this was a dive where things almost went fatally wrong.

-- submitted from IRC

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  • (Score: 2) by PiMuNu on Monday July 23 2018, @12:30PM (6 children)

    by PiMuNu (3823) on Monday July 23 2018, @12:30PM (#711185)

    It's a nice story and quite believable. I knew a very experienced cave diver who drowned. The recovery team found nothing wrong with his gear, he was on the line, he simply ran out of air.

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  • (Score: 3, Touché) by takyon on Monday July 23 2018, @01:15PM (5 children)

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Monday July 23 2018, @01:15PM (#711198) Journal

    The one question to ask about any cave diver: are they a pedo guy/gal [newsweek.com]?

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    • (Score: 4, Informative) by rleigh on Monday July 23 2018, @04:02PM (4 children)

      by rleigh (4887) on Monday July 23 2018, @04:02PM (#711280) Homepage

      My respect for Musk plummeted after these remarks. Being a billionaire doesn't give you the right to libel people by making baseless accusations, particularly ones with potentially lethal consequences. I hope he gets sued successfully for his petulant tantrum.

      • (Score: 1, Offtopic) by takyon on Monday July 23 2018, @05:14PM (2 children)

        by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Monday July 23 2018, @05:14PM (#711318) Journal

        He doesn't need to be respected. He just needs to deliver (on BFR), and stay quiet if his tongue or tweets are going to cause any irreversible harm.

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        • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 23 2018, @09:11PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 23 2018, @09:11PM (#711442)

          Papa John's SJW PR agency should go and entrap and eject Musk from his own company.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 24 2018, @05:29AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 24 2018, @05:29AM (#711597)

          The President disagrees.

      • (Score: 2) by legont on Tuesday July 24 2018, @02:32AM

        by legont (4179) on Tuesday July 24 2018, @02:32AM (#711527)

        Typically people blame others for their hidden sins. Hereby I declare Musk a pedophile and commit to always refer to him as such: "Musk the pedophile".

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