"It's a very cerebral sport," says Dr. Richard Harris. If we brought them out, there was a chance some might survive. The boys range in age from 11 to 16, and their coach is … But it was deemed too complicated and too dangerous. One plan involved drilling a tunnel into the cavern similar to the one that saved the Chilean miners in 2010. ‘It’s a big mental hurdle to get over… I don’t have to explain what it feels like to push a child underwater when they’re unconscious, it feels pretty wrong on every level.’. An ambulance transporting members of the children's football team approaches the hospital in the northern Thai city of Chiang Rai. A group of ambulances go in to Tham Luang cave complex. CHIANG RAI, Thailand (Reuters) -- Rescuers freed the last four of 12 Thai boys and their soccer coach from deep inside a flooded cave on Tuesday, a successful end to an extraordinarily perilous mission that gripped the world for more than two weeks. An ambulance carrying one of the rescued boys heads towards the hospital. An image from the Royal Thai Navy Facebook page shows rescuers' hands locked with a caption reading "We Thai and the international teams join forces to bring the young Wild Boars home.". All 12 boys and their coach have now been freed after a dramatic three-day rescue operation. Retired vet and cave-diving expert, Craig Challen, alongside Adelaide anaesthetist and diving enthusiast Richard ‘Harry’ Harris, played a key role in freeing the 12 boys and their coach over three days in June last year. Diver’s lucky escape as shark attacks his GoPro camera, Porn-hooked son 'murdered parents and brother after stealing £160k to send to Bulgarian webcam girl', Deputy fired after stopping black shoppers for ‘acting suspicious’, Tyler Cameron Cramps Up Running the New York City Marathon, Graduate is scarred for life by laser hair removal treatment on leg. The phone calls were short and to the point, no time for long debriefings. Taxi drivers shuttled volunteers back and forth from the airport for free. It took eight hours for the 13 to be rescued by a team of divers led by Thai navy SEALS.
Retired vet and cave-diving expert, Craig Challen, alongside Adelaide anaesthetist and diving enthusiast Richard ‘Harry’ Harris, played a key role in … – Friday, July 6 – Tragedy strikes: a diver helping to establish an air line to the boys dies after passing out while returning from the chamber, raising serious doubts over the safety of attempting a rescue. {{numberArticlesLeft}} free article{{numberArticlesLeft-plural}}. All of them are strong. One by one out they came, and were quickly evacuated to a hospital in Chiang Rai, where they were found to be in good health. – Thursday, June 28 – Downpours create fast-moving floods inside the cave forcing a suspension of the rescue.
‘When I came out the first day the US Air Force Pararescue guys were there and they pat us on the shoulder and said “four out of four doc”,’ Dr Harris said. The boys had to be sedated amid fears they could have killed themselves and their assigned diver if they panicked.
Officials did not comment on the rescue mission as it took place, so details of the final day of the rescue and the condition of the last five to be brought out were not immediately known. Shortly afterwards, heavy rains partially flooded the cave, blocking their way out. All the thirteen Wild Boars are now out of the cave," the Navy SEAL unit, which led the rescue, said on its Facebook page, adding all were safe. The whole idea is to be very relaxed, calm and smooth in the water. He dropped the guide line while shifting his human package from one hand to the other and couldn't find it.
Since most of them didn't know how to swim, they were sedated before divers brought them to safety through the flooded passages in the cave complex. A letter handed to British divers reads "the kids say don't be worried about them. ‘Once I had dived the cave myself I could see that it would be impossible to dive the kids out in any other way except asleep, because it was a pretty tricky cave, was pretty tight, zero visibility a lot of the time,’ Dr Harris said. Ten days later, the children had still not been found. Relieved relatives of the missing share photos after all 12 boys and their coach were found alive on July 2, 10 days after they'd been trapped in the cave. Thai soldiers relay an electrical cable deep into the Tham Luang cave at the Khun Nam Nang Non Forest Park.
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The coach and 12 boys from the Thai youth soccer team that spent 17 nights trapped in a cave before being rescued this summer spoke with Ellen DeGeneres about how they survived an ordeal that gripped the world. Military personnel carry surface supply diving cables out from the cave complex. Talking to Channel Seven’s Sunday Night, the men said they hoped that sedating the boys and dragging them out of the cave was the last option on a long list. Some of the sumps were more than 50 feet deep. The Daring Rescue that Saved the Thai Soccer Team A group of the world's best cave divers joined to help save the 12 boys and their coach in one of the most dangerous missions of its kind In June and July 2018, a widely publicised cave rescue saved the lives of members of a junior football team who were trapped inside the Tham Luang Nang Non cave in Chiang Rai Province, Thailand. Why anyone would choose to do it for fun remains a bit baffling. The joy that greeted the emergence of the last of the team on July 10 – after 18 days underground – rippled around the world. This content was commissioned by Nikkei's Global Business Bureau.
A team of SEAL divers inspect the water-filled tunnel in the cave. Family members near the cave celebrate the news that the team and their coach were found alive. I felt like he was one of my own children and I wanted him to come home.". Mr Bratchley is an experienced diver, and had been in the Mill Pond Cave before.
", SubscribePrivacy Policy(UPDATED)Terms of ServiceCookie PolicyPolicies & ProceduresContact InformationWhere to WatchConsent ManagementCookie Settings. Four players had birthdays during the period when they were trapped, but they didn't celebrate them. The last five were brought out of the cave on stretchers, one by one over the course of Tuesday, and taken by helicopter to hospital. Parents of the four boys rescued on Sunday were allowed to see them through a glass window at the hospital, public health officials said on Tuesday, but they will be quarantined for the time being. The only way to reach them was by navigating dark and tight passageways filled with muddy water and strong currents. I put their odds of survival at zero.". "Even if you've never been in a cave before, it was something everyone in the world could relate to. The operation was rendered almost impossible by a choke point of just 38cm – the narrowest part of the journey out of the cave. The unconscious boys were then swam by British divers where Mr Challen was waiting in the next chamber 300metres away. After pondering for days how to get the 13 out, a rescue operation was launched on Sunday when four of the boys were brought out, tethered to rescue divers. Coach of Thai soccer team saved from cave tells Ellen DeGeneres: 'They weren't scared' The coach and 12 boys from the Thai soccer team rescued in … Classmates of Adul, one of the boys trapped in the cave, visit a tribute to the Wild Boars soccer team at the entrance of Ban Waingphan school.
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He was in an air bell when found. Brilliant!". When they weren’t able to find him, they came out and they raised the alarm.”. Tuesday, 5 March 2019 By Joel K. Bourne, Jr. But they were quick to demur any heroism and heaped praise on the boys and the entire volunteer army that turned out to save them.
He warns the window of opportunity to free the youngsters is ‘limited’. He took the child the rest of the way out. It's very much a meditative state of mind. Cookie Policy Watch TODAY All Day! The boys were in the ninth cavern. Read: Cave rescue operation ends as all trapped Thai boys are freed, found in the dark, partially flooded cave, Eight boys now rescued from flooded Thai cave complex, Cave rescue operation ends as all trapped Thai boys are freed. "I expected the first two kids to drown and then we'd have to do something different. For the next four days the international divers and the Seals worked 12 to 14 hours in the cave inching their way forward a metre at a time in total darkness, surfacing in each cavern to check for the boys. Chantawong said none of them remembered actually being rescued after being sedated. "I've received thousands of messages from around the globe, thanking us for not just saving the kids, but for getting the world together and setting an example for mankind," says Karadzic. "I remember all of their faces, especially the youngest one. – Tuesday, July 3 – Much-needed food and medical supplies – including high-calorie gels and paracetamol – reach the boys as rescuers prepare for the possibility that they may remain in the cave for some time. Lieutenant Brian Krebs, from Chattanooga Hamilton County Rescue Services, told America’s ABC News that specialty divers were being flown in to help find Mr Bratchley. Having been flown out to Thailand at short notice, the two Australian divers assessed the options for guiding them through over a kilometre of flooded and narrow passages in the cave system. Mr Bratchley had travelled to the US with a group from Britain specifically to explore the cave, which is reachable only under water. ‘That first day was pretty harrowing – testing whether the mask was going to fill up with water. A team of British cave divers explores an opening in a mountain near Chiang Rai, Thailand, hoping to find a new passage into Tham Luang cave during the 2018 rescue operation for a missing boy's soccer team and their coach. John Volantan swam three kids out, and the last one got tangled in telephone wires that had been laid down before the cave flooded. At cavern three the boys would be given a medical check by the U.S. military team and passed along to a hundred or so rescuers from a half dozen nations who gently passed them along on a rescue sled.