3/17/2023 0 Comments Thailand cave story![]() “I still can’t believe it worked,” he said. Interviews with military personnel and officials detailed a rescue assembled from an amalgam of muscle and brainpower from around the world: 10,000 people participated, including 2,000 soldiers, 200 divers and representatives from 100 government agencies. ![]() “The whole world was watching, so we had to succeed,” said Kaew, a Thai navy SEAL who shook his head in amazement at how every one of the rescues worked. It was a frightening moment in what had been a surprisingly smooth rescue of the soccer team, the Wild Boars, who had survived the murky darkness of Thailand’s Tham Luang Cave, sometimes by licking water off the cold limestone walls. Slowly, he backtracked, going deeper into the cave to find the rope, before the rescue could resume.Īt last, the survivor got through, safely. With visibility near zero, he couldn’t find the line again. As the rescuers waited anxiously, a diver navigating the 11th teammate through the underwater maze lost hold of the guide rope. ![]() “Fish on,” the rescuers signalled, recalled Maj Charles Hodges of the US air force, mission commander for the US team on site. Rescuers inside an underground chamber felt a tug on the rope – the sign that one of the 12 boys and their coach would soon emerge from the flooded tunnels. ![]() But on trip number 11, to save one of the last soccer teammates stuck for 18 days deep inside the cave, something went dangerously wrong. Improbably enough, most of the escapes went flawlessly. ![]()
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