Thailand - FOUND ALIVE - 12 Boys And Coach Rescued from Cave, 23 June 2018 #6

[Gardenista]

On the news right now, they are saying that one of the Thailand cave divers is lost in a cave in Tennessee and they are calling people throughout the United States to help rescue him. They did not name the diver. Just that he was one of the ones that went to Thailand to help with the boys rescue.

ETA

Rescuers rush to locate diver who disappeared inside underwater cave

The missing diver is Josh Bratchley, a British member of the elite international team that helped rescue 12 soccer players and their coach from a Thailand cave in July, ABC News has learned.

Tennessee cave rescue: Diver who helped free Thai soccer team now missing in Tenn. cave

I think he is the one who got banned from the Thai rescue. I can't remember why now, it's somewhere in these threads.

 

[dixiegirl1035]

I think he is the one who got banned from the Thai rescue. I can't remember why now, it's somewhere in these threads.

The only one I recall was the Belgian diver. I found some quotes on previous threads about it.

"Ben Reymenants, a Belgian cave diver who operates a dive shop in Thailand....



Thailand - FOUND ALIVE - 12 Boys And Coach Still Trapped In Cave , 23 June 2018 #2

Piriyathep K‏ @PKinbangkok

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A Belgian diving instructor, based in Phuket, has been banned from the rescue operations at #ThamLuang for spreading distortions and sowing confusion (amongst the press and rescuers).

Before Divers Could Rescue the Thai Team, They Had To Find Them

 

[Gardener1850]

Just love it when I get this particular error message:

Our European visitors are important to us. This site is currently unavailable to visitors from the European Economic Area...

Sorry! It's a video from the diver's body cam showing part of the rescue. Hopefully it will be on youtube soon so ALL can see it.

ETA: Here you go:

 

[CoverMeCagney]

Sorry! It's a video from the diver's body cam showing part of the rescue. Hopefully it will be on youtube soon so ALL can see it.

ETA: Here you go:

Haha, thank yooou!

 

[Pi Thoughts]

Two Australian doctors were given royal honours in Thailand on Friday for helping rescue a boys soccer team from a flooded cave and said they are looking forward to a reunion with the youngsters they helped save.

Richard Harris and Craig Challen were given the award at a ceremony presided over by Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha.

Four Australian officials involved with the rescue effort were also honoured.

Aussie doctors given Thai royal honours for cave rescue

 

[they'll get you]

Australian rescuers revisit Thai cave
Two Australian doctors who helped rescue a children's soccer team trapped in a flooded cave in Thailand have returned to the spot for the first time since then.

Richard Harris and Craig Challen, honoured by the Thai government last week, were part of the international operation to save the lives of 12 members of the Wild Boars soccer team and their coach.

The two divers met the Wild Boars privately on Monday, and also briefly entered the cave, which has become a tourist attraction although access to the interior is restricted.

Harris and Challen paid their respects at the statue of Thai Navy Seal diver Saman Kunan, who died during the rescue operation.

Australian rescuers revisit Thai cave

 

[CoverMeCagney]

Australian rescuers revisit Thai cave
Two Australian doctors who helped rescue a children's soccer team trapped in a flooded cave in Thailand have returned to the spot for the first time since then.

Richard Harris and Craig Challen, honoured by the Thai government last week, were part of the international operation to save the lives of 12 members of the Wild Boars soccer team and their coach.

The two divers met the Wild Boars privately on Monday, and also briefly entered the cave, which has become a tourist attraction although access to the interior is restricted.

Harris and Challen paid their respects at the statue of Thai Navy Seal diver Saman Kunan, who died during the rescue operation.

Australian rescuers revisit Thai cave

Brilliant! Well deserved and what a nice pair of guys (my friend works with Dr Harris and says he's wonderful!)

 

[MsFacetious]

Elon Musk WILL face in court the British diver he called 'pedo guy' on Twitter during the Thailand cave rescue after a California judge refuses to dismiss a defamation case against the SpaceX CEO

Elon Musk must face British diver he called a 'pedo' on Twitter during Thai cave rescue | Daily Mail Online

 

[they'll get you]

Elon will have his hands full with this and is wife’s legalities with Johnny Depp.

 

[Legally Bland]

One year on.
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To the divers' knowledge, there are only three people in the world who are both elite cave divers and anaesthetists – one in the UK, one in the US, and one in Australia.

The British team got in touch with the Australian, Richard "Harry" Harris.

"Doc Harry said: 'It won't work'. He said 'it just won't work'," Vernon recalls.

"Rick said to Harry: 'Well I'd like you to sleep on it overnight', and Harry said to Rick: 'What if I decide not to do it?'"

"And Rick said: 'They all die'."

Achieving the impossible: Thai cave rescue a year on

 

[CoverMeCagney]

"What if I decide not to do it?"

"They all die"

This story still makes me all emotional. Amazing teamwork, skill, dedication and courage

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Thai soccer team marks anniversary of cave ordeal with run

The cave and the town of Mae Sai in the mountainous province on the border with Myanmar are now flooded with curious tourists.

 

[Seattle1]

Thai soccer team marks anniversary of cave ordeal with run

Members of the "Wild Boars" football team and their coach pose before participating in a marathon at the visitor centre for the Tham Luang cave, where the 12 boys and their coach were trapped last year, in the Mae Sai district of Chiang Rai province.

June 23, 2019

MAE SAI, Thailand — A year after they became trapped in a flooded cave at the start of a two-week ordeal, some of the 12 young Thai soccer players and their coach marked the anniversary of the drama on Sunday that propelled them into celebrities.

Around 4,000 people took part in the marathon and biking event Sunday morning, organized by local authorities to raise funds to improve conditions at the now famous Tham Luang cave complex in northern Thailand.

[...]

Abbot Prayutjetiyanukarn, a monk in the local neighborhood who interacts with the team every week, told The Associated Press that some of the boys were wary of the media and try to avoid the press whenever they can.

"But they are fine, both physically and spiritually, there's nothing to worry about," he said.

 

[Seattle1]

Netflix announces deal for film about Thailand's cave boys

April 30, 2019, 7:51 AM PDT
By Associated Press


BANGKOK — Netflix announced Tuesday it is joining with the production company for the movie "Crazy Rich Asians" to make a film about last July's dramatic rescue of 12 village boys in northern Thailand who were trapped with their soccer coach in a flooded cave for more than two weeks.

Netflix and SK Global Entertainment said in Bangkok they have acquired the rights to the story from 13 Thumluang Co. Ltd, a company that Thailand's government helped establish to represent the interests of the boys and their coach, who attended the news conference for the announcement.

Thailand's Culture Ministry in March first unveiled the deal, announced as a miniseries. Deputy government spokesman Weerachon Sukoondhapatipakat was quoted then as saying that the families of the cave survivors would each be paid 3 million baht ($94,000).

 

[Keine Engel]

I so hope Musk is gonna be doing a cameo

 

[dixiegirl1035]

Elon Musk testified he worried Thai cave rescuer might be 'another Jeffrey Epstein'

In a court deposition released on Monday, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says he once worried that British cave diver Vernon Unsworth might be "another Jeffrey Epstein." The deposition came out as Musk and his lawyers asked a judge to dismiss the defamation case Unsworth brought against Musk for previous comments calling him a "pedo guy."

New court filings in Vernon Unsworth vs. Elon Musk reveal that Musk's family office spent tens of thousands on a private investigator to dig up details about the spelunker.

After calling him a "pedo guy," Elon Musk is facing a defamation lawsuit in the U.S. brought by the Thai cave rescue hero Vernon Unsworth.

The filings also reveal that Musk brought at least 50 "top engineers" from three of his companies, at an unknown cost, to try to figure out a way to rescue the soccer team stranded in the flooded Thai caves.

 

[gregjrichards]

What Musk did was an absolute disgrace and disgusting I hope he is forced to pay a significant sum of damages to the man he defamed.

 

[CoverMeCagney]

A bit off topic, but I love the word "spelunker"

 

[Jax49]

Elon Musk Assures Federal Court That “Pedo Guy” Does Not Actually Mean “Pedophile”

A good chunk of Musk's summary judgment motion reveals where this newfound reserve of vitriol came from: At some point after his apology, Musk quietly agreed to pay a private investigator more than $50,000 to look for dirt on Unsworth. This effort at conducting due diligence was not particularly successful. In an interview on Monday, Unsworth's attorney told Law.com's Ross Todd that although Musk dangled a $10,000 incentive for evidence of Unsworth's misconduct, the investigator still came up empty. A contemporaneous BuzzFeed News investigation found no evidence to corroborate Musk's allegations, and under oath, Unsworth has denied even traveling to Pattaya during his time in Thailand.

 

[Keine Engel]

Elon Musk Assures Federal Court That “Pedo Guy” Does Not Actually Mean “Pedophile”

Okay Elon...