Re: Four boys resued
This video wraps it up perfectly.
Channel NewsAsia
Tham Luang Cave Rescue: Against the Elements
These are the Thai leaders and people telling their story in English subtitle translations that are excellent, clear and easy to read. The principal narrator of the rapidly moving developments is Navy Seal Captain Anon Surawan who was commander of the Luang Cave Forward Operations Base, Chamber 3. Governor and Overall Operations Commander Narongsak discusses every development of the emergency, his and his team's reaction, their discussions with foreign divers and leaders, and their choices -- step by step, point by point. Narongsak is easy to recognize as a classic and model crisis commander and strategist, decision maker, leader.
The timeline is complete, from the reporting of the boys missing to the hunt for 'em and finding them, to the rescue operation. Each step is presented. Each decision is discussed. The details are all here. We meet the both principal decision makers and the local citizens who threw themselves into it.
The owner of a local water pump sales company for instance drove 900km to get his three biggest pumps from the warehouse to haul 'em back with him to relieve the water problem in the cave so Thai Navy Seals could begin their diving.
A hundred and one rice farmers said no problem to flood their fields. The lady farm owner Sri Thammachoke put it this way,
"If the water reaches the children they will be dead. If the water reaches the fields we will replant the rice. I could not eat or sleep because I was worried about the children." Miss Sri cooked and cleaned at the cave site nights and mended her rice fields during the daytime.
A Thai geologist identified three points from which water was entering the cave and organized a diversion and blockage plan that stopped the constant flooding, to include the instant digging of an 800 meter canal.
"Nature is all powerful. We can only bargain with it sometimes with the help of science."
More than a hundred local food vendors moved in to set up and cook 5000 packets of food daily (without fiduciary compensation).
Two animations of the cave tunnels that illustrate the extraction of each boy show a breathtakingly dangerous and horrendously demanding rescue mission for the divers. It's revealed in the video that the rescuers had unrealistically expected each sedated boy to walk through the open areas in between being held and guided by divers through the tunnels and passageways. It seems the rescuers at all levels had thought their sedation of the boys could be turned on and off like a light switch. It could not. So each boy had to be placed in a stretcher and carried -- or sent by high rope -- through or above each open chamber or passageway. The first boy rescued was only semiconscious when they tried to stand him up to walk in the first open air area. So rescuers had to sedate him again to carry him and each of the other boys and coach to the next tunnel or passageway -- then finally out the mouth of the cave and to safety.
Live and learn.
Note: The video features the grandmother of the boy Dom through most of the runtime yet we never see Dom himself until the very end along with the team at the community center media spectacle. So here, and so we can see upfront who the grandlady is emoting about for forty minutes, is Dom, who is 13: