Comments on: Thai Cave Rescue Considered Beyond Risky

By: Wil

Wil — Fri, 06 Jul 2018 17:33:56 +0000

Elon Musk has offered his boring expertise to help rescue a party of schoolboys trapped in a flooded cave in Thailand.

Twelve boys and their football team coach were visiting the Tham Luang cave system in Northern Thailand when they were stranded by floodwaters 10 days ago. More heavy rain is expected to flood the caves further, and sections of the passages out are too narrow to wear scuba tanks. Former navy diver Saman Gunan died after delivering oxygen to the children on Thursday, demonstrating how dangerous the escape from the caves would be.

Boring Co has advanced ground penetrating radar & is pretty good at digging holes. Don’t know if pump rate is limited by electric power or pumps are too smal. If so, could dropship fully charged Powerpacks and pumps.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 5, 2018
Employees of the SpaceX and Boring companies founded by Musk are on their way to Thailand to offer assistance. The Boring Company was set up to drill traffic tunnels, and could employ ground-penetrating radar or air pumps.

Tesla founder Musk has also suggested running an inflatable tunnel through the irregular passageways of the cave that could form a walkway to safety.

By: Wil

Wil — Thu, 05 Jul 2018 22:09:01 +0000

CNN:
Chiang Rai, Thailand (CNN)A medical assessment of the 12 boys and their football coach stuck in a cave in Northern Thailand has concluded that it is too dangerous to try to move the group out Thursday, according to a member of the Thai Navy SEALs who is not authorized to speak to the media. The SEALs have also started to pump oxygen into the chamber.

Separately, a new doctor’s report highlighted that two of the boys and the coach were suffering with exhaustion from malnutrition.

Fresh details of the operation underway at the Tham Luang Nang Non to free the team were emerging on Thursday, as rescuers pushed ahead with multiple plans to extricate the group trapped underground for almost two weeks.
More rain is forecast this weekend, putting pressure on rescuers to formulate a plan to extract the boys before flood waters rise any higher.

By: Truthiz1

Truthiz1 — Thu, 05 Jul 2018 11:55:10 +0000

DJ, thanks for this. I was hoping you’d do a post covering this story …and you did.

What an incredible human-interest story. Honestly, I haven’t stopped praying for the group since the day the news broke. One can only imagine what their families of the team -along with their coach- are going through. But it’s truly miraculous that they were all found alive!

DJ:
“The options are not great, but unfortunately, these are the only options they’ve got. Will the world be able to come together and stage another successful heroic ending similar to the Peruvian miners’ rescue of 2010?”

I’m sure I’m not alone when I say that THAT is certainly my prayer.