Anyone know how they got there?
Anyone know how they got there?
I heard they had been found a couple days ago, and I assumed that was the end of it. It wasn’t until today that I heard they were still trying to figure out how to get them out. Those poor boys!
DS: Raising heck since 12/09
While that may be true, I heard about this last week, well before they were found. It was a pretty big story. I have been obsessed!!
Yes, to all who said they have kids the same age who play competitive soccer.
Sent from my iPhone using Baby Bargains
I can’t imagine what the families are going through hearing that one of the options is for them to stay there for four months until the water levels recede.
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I’ve been obsessed with this story too. My DS is a 13 year old soccer player whose best friends are all his soccer teammates. They’re dressed just like all my DS’s friends. Breaks my heart and leaves me choked up every time I check up on the story and I’m terrified they aren’t all going to make it as none of the options sound fail proof.
The dive sounds treacherous for the most expert of divers and none of those boys can even swim. I just don’t think the odds are good for getting all 13 out without any problems.
One thing that I haven’t heard much about is if the rescuers have any reason to be confident that this cavern they’re in won’t flood during monsoon season. Do they really know if it will stay dry?
I’ve also heard that the monsoon season might make the cavern totally inaccessible for supply runs and communications for months, but I don’t quite get how it changes to being inaccessible if they’re already having to scuba dive in.
On a very trivial note, I feel bad they’re missing the World Cup! If they have to stay, maybe they can bring in videos of all the games to help pass the time.
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Typically divers can fix problems under water, you don’t want to go up as that causes other problems. A good friend is an instructor and DH would dive with him as his assistant. This friend has a death stare, eye to eye and slows your breathing down, so you stop panicking and fixes the problem. He had to do it to me once when I first started diving.
Issue with the cave is lack of visibility and narrow space to dive in. Leaving them there doesn’t sound like an option either though
I have been following the story. Amazing and a relief that they were able to survive just with water for 10 days.
Also, obviously survival is the most important thing to the kids, but I was thinking that it must be really exhausting in terms of being uncomfortable and monotonous for the kids to just sit there waiting.
And finally, I watched the video of the rescuer talking to the boys and they seem so different than I would imagine a group of kids huddled and fearful to appear - the kids seemed relatively quiet when the rescuer appeared (not saying that they weren't, just that their body language wasn't jumping up and energetic). When the rescuer came out of the water, he would have been a complete surprise for the kids and up to that moment, they would have increasingly feared the worst. I am not judging at all, obviously, just curious.
I wondered whether it's just that they are so exhausted and psychologically shocked that they responded to the rescuers that way; of maybe it's cultural?; or maybe the video wasn't good because it didn't capture the first moments the rescuer came out (if it didn't); or maybe if we could listen to the exchange in the children's language, we could pick up on more.
Last edited by magnoliaparadise; 07-05-2018 at 03:44 AM.