All the divers comments were said BEFORE Musk responded with that hideous comments.
Yes, but he was answering a question posed by the press and was responding to Musk's previous comments criticizing the Thailand officials and divers for not using his submarine. Here is the order of events:
1. Musk's submarine was NOT used. The boys and coach were all rescued without it. When asked why by the BBC the man who was the main Thai official co-coordinating the effort and giving media updates about the rescue said this:
Mr Musk's plan was reported to have been called "not practical" by Narongsak Osatanakorn, who has been co-ordinating the mission. That report came after some criticism of the plan from people who argued that the relatively large submarine would not be able to fit around the tight cave network the boys had to navigate.
“Even though their equipment is technologically sophisticated, it doesn’t fit with our mission to go in the cave,” Mr Osatanakorn told the BBC.
Elon Musk finally responds to claims his Thai rescue effort was useless
2. Musk was upset at the Thai official's comments, insisted it would have worked, and responded on Twitter essentially saying Osatanakorn didn't know what he was talking about and wasn't the real one in charge. And EM revealed private emails between himself and one of the British Divers (very unprofessional behavior, IMO):
"The former Thai provincial governor (described inaccurately as 'rescue chief') is not the subject matter expert," Mr Musk wrote. "That would be Dick Stanton, who co-led the dive rescue team."
Elon Musk finally responds to claims his Thai rescue effort was useless
3. The press asked Vernon Unsworth, who has spent a decade mapping the cave, was among the first on the scene and ultimately brought in the top UK divers responsible for rescuing the boys, for his take on EM's "submarine" and why it wasn't used. Unsworth gave his assessment of why it would not work and his opinion that EM was only after PR.
Here's video of Unsworth being asked about it and his response:
Elon Musk can 'stick his submarine where it hurts', says Thai cave rescuer diver
Quote from the above link:
A British diver who was instrumental in rescuing a schoolboy football team from a flooded cave in Thailand has told
Elon Musk to “stick his submarine where it hurts”, describing the entrepreneur’s offer to help the mission with a miniature submersible a “PR stunt”.
Vern Unsworth said a six-foot submarine the SpaceX boss invented and handed to the rescue team “had absolutely no chance of working” because the billionaire inventor “had no conception of what the cave passage was like”.
4. Elon Musk THEN lashed out by calling Unsworth a pedo on Twitter. An accusation with no evidence against a man he has never met. IMO, he also insulted the country of Thailand by making the accusation that anyone who is an Ex-pat living there must be "sus" and a pedo.
5. Unsworth has now said he may pursue legal action against Musk for the slur. And Musk deleted his Twitter comments.
--I promised myself I wouldn't get into this argument and I really don't want to argue anymore after this post about it but the differences between the two people supposedly flinging insults should be clear, IMO. One of them was actually deeply involved in the rescue operation and knew what he was talking about and the other one had not been past the entrance of the cave. One of them gave advice and resources that were actually used to get the boys out safe and one offered a "plan b" that was not used. When more than one person actually involved in the rescue says the submarine didn't fit and wouldn't have worked in the cave I think we should believe the people who were involved over the one throwing vile insults because his plan wasn't used. There were countless others who tried various plans to rescue the boys and coach-- people tried drilling, searching for other entrances, dropping care packages down from above in hopes they would somehow reach the boy's cavern. None of those other people whose efforts were fruitless are lashing out at the rescuers who made it happen. Had Musk simply congratulated the hundreds of people involved in the rescue for a job well done and celebrated the fact that the boys all got out safe he might have earned more good will. His reactions reveal his intent, MOO.
