WichitaFalls
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A SEAL officer has died from lack of oxygen inside the cave.
Reports say he is a former Thai Navy SEAL. He died on the way back from bringing oxygen tanks inside the cave.
RIH Hero.
They are getting a fiber-optic cable installed so they can go online!
The Thai soccer players trapped in a cave are getting a fiber-optic cable installed so they can go online
Maybe some promising news?
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The chief engineer involved in the rescue mission has told the Guardian that he thinks a team may be able to drill down to where the boys are located and get them out that way.
Drilling was previously believed to be too dangerous an option, given the small space the boys and their coach are trapped in, and the fact that they are believed to be between 800m and 1km below the surface.
Schematic of where the boys are trapped.
Thai authorities are progressing several different plans at once to try to reach the boys – including drilling a hole from the top of the mountain to find them. Thanes Weerasin, the president of the Engineering Institute of Thailand, who is supervising a drilling crew currently in the jungle above the boys, told the Guardian he was exploring one particularly promising tunnel with with a large hole about 100m into it.
“It’s a big hole, about 1.2m by 1m,” he said. “You can go down using a rope … I think this place can lead to the children because after your foot touches the ground below, you can walk through using the compass and direct it to the tunnel [where the children are stuck].”
About 20m in the direction of the boys, Weerasin said he reached another hole that was obstructed by a boulder. He wedged a borescope through a gap and saw it extended up to another 10m.
He believes the hole could eventually lead to Nom Sao slope, the area past Pattaya Beach where the children and their coach are sheltering. “I think this hole is near there.”
You are a treasure Jax, and quick on the draw! Thank you!
Thank you. I had it copied already; knew someone would ask.
I'm sick over this situation. Screaming "pump, pump, pump" at the screen. And "STOP the rain" to the universe.
Margarita I totally understand what you mean by a punch in the gut. I came back to catch up and I feel like I'm going to puke now.
I can't even. I agree it's time to drill. I wish they'd already started. They could drill down in half the the monsoon season rather than waiting until after, pumping out the water and all of that.
We have to remember if they wait until after monsoon season is over, they will still likely have to drain MORE water unless they get the super pumps there. They will just be able to keep water from rising, they are unlikely to get ahead of it during monsoon season.
I don't think this is a good idea AT ALL. Let them talk to their parents sure. Get phone access into the cave so people can have communication, wonderful.
ONLINE?! FFS please don't let these boys read the dire circumstances and foretelling of their deaths. How in the world will that help? No, no no.... keep them off the internet.
Is somebody else in there now? Have they tried the smoke bomb idea? Have they tried making noise to see if they boys/divers can hear it in the other side? What are they doing to try and get through this. OMG.... this could be the best chance they have. Go, go go!
(Colorado is on fire. Send it here!!!)We need the rain on the west coast of the US. Send us all the rain. Man I sure wish that's how the universe worked!
Gonna head to bed but attach these here. Thank you all for being here.
(Colorado is on fire. Send it here!!!)