Thai soccer team found
For some reason, 11 days ago, a soccer coach took his 12 boys into a cave. Their ages range from 11 to 16, and their 25-year-old coach. Torrential rains flooded the cave. Rescue crews from the US and the UK as well as Thai SEALs have penetrated the dark, dank depths of the cave in hopes of saving the boys.
Yesterday, their efforts were rewarded when the crews located the team three miles beneath the surface of the Earth. However, search efforts have switched to rescue efforts as crews try to determine the safest way to extract the boys from the flooded portions of their escape route, according to Stars & Stripes;
When the group will be able to leave the cave isn’t known due to flooding and other factors that could make their extraction dangerous. Experts have said it could be safer to simply supply them where they are for now. Thailand’s rainy season typically lasts through October.
Family members of the missing hugged each other and cheered as they heard they had been found.
Rescue crews took enough food to last the the boys for four months in the event that it takes that long to safely extract them from the cave.
Experts in cave rescues from around the world had gathered at the site. An official Australian group has followed a U.S. military team, British cave experts, Chinese lifesaving responders and several other volunteer groups from various countries.
“These are challenging conditions and there’s a lot of consideration for safety as well as, the environment outside is contributing to the environment inside,” said U.S. Air Force Capt. Jessica Tait, part of a 30-member U.S. military team assisting in the search, referring to the rain that has been flooding the cave. “So I’d say, yeah, it’s an accurate statement that it’s challenging.”
They only have to rescue the boys. Let that dumbass coach find his own way out.
Category: Air Force
still, “rescue” is far better than “recovery”
What a dumbass to take those boys in a cave, I understand most of them can’t even swim! Always be aware of your surroundings and your abilities! They had no business going in that cave! I pray all the children will be rescued. Piss on the coach, leave that moron to get out on his own!!
It will be live streamed and become a reality production. Profits will keep them there for many seasons. They will grow old, marry and have children over the course of the show.
Years later there will be a reuinion show titled “where are they now?”
I feel a movie coming on!
Yep.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/thailand-cave-rescue-turned-hollywood-movie-003908190.html
Next up….”I was there”. Fake dive medals and associated bling.
I’m glad everyone is safe, but I also wonder why a 25 year old coach in Thailand takes a group of young boys into a cave…none of whom are swimmers or spelunkers…it’s all very sketchy from here.
Here’s hoping for a prompt rescue going forward and a full accounting of just what the hell was going on there.
The coach’s nickname, I hear, is Butterbar. Unfortunately, there was no Top Shirt to save his ass from bad decision making.
I think I saw some USAF people on the news over there, discussing it.
I, too, wonder why that coach took this bunch of kids spelunking. I agree, he should be the last to leave, but the parents deserve some time giving him a piece of their minds over this.
The British Cave Rescue Council, which has members taking part in the rescue operation, estimates that the group are around 1.2 miles into the cave and around 0.6 miles below the surface. But other estimates put the boys as far as 2.5 miles into the caves. Police in Thailand said on Tuesday they will look into whether the coach could be faced with legal action for leading them into the cave.
My wife is Thai. Based upon personal experience, if I was that coach, and looking at the prospect of facing twelve angry Thai moms, I might prefer just to stay in the cave…
Yep, lets put dresses on young men and let them play video games in the safety of their mommy’s home.
Lets teach them that there are no risks in life, everything is up to or the fault of someone else.
Sounds like these young men learned a thing or two about survival. Having too much experience in such matters my opinion is the Rescue Teams are now fighting over who will get credit for “saving” a group of young men who were waiting out the storm.
We all die, try not to be a pussy while you live.
Damn skippy.
Sure we all die, ideally we don’t get a dozen kids killed showing them how fucking stupid and unprepared we are for the trip we planned.
Kid’s playing soccer aren’t sitting around in dresses in mommy’s house they are outdoors being fit. They could have hiked on top of the mountain for the day to build fitness for their sport instead of being trapped underwater when most of them can’t swim.
I’ve no quarrel teaching kids to do anything or taking them on trips that are out of the ordinary. My kids can tell you their versions of dad’s great outdoor adventures, but just like taking troops outside you don’t go unprepared and untrained and hope for the best. Especially when you’re responsible for those other lives….only fucktards do that.
Come on…you know soccer is for Euro trash and fags. Join the team…be American.
Taking kids on caving adventures has been going on for a long long time. Hiking to the little hill top might be loads of fun for kids that are being taught to prance through life, I taught mine to use guns, box, REAL Football, and yes I even took them and others caving.
I am a proud Fucktard that has been teaching kids that life is an adventure to be experienced not observed from some hill top.
Are you sure you are not a closet Jesus freak? Next thing I know you will be talking about the joy of forgiveness and shit.
Come on…have a shave, get a hair cut, put on some pressed pants and at least act American.
How many times did you get lost and stranded in the cave? Without food and water?
How many times did you get lost in the woods with your kids without food and water?
I took my kids skydiving, I built my daughter a race car and my son and daughter both served this nation…no whiny fags here, just responsible assholes tired of seeing amateur hour in the woods and then good men and women being risked to rescue assclowns….
You can take your jeebus statue and sit on it…forgive? fuck not, but I’ll be damned if I’m gonna sympathize with a dipshit risking anyone but his own life due to stupidity.
It’s okay for the sheep to go check on the wolf, just don’t take the whole fucking herd with you when you do.
Well, lets see. I have been in caves all over the world, from Iceland to the Blue Hole.
Almost everyone that went into a cave with me came out alive. I was stuck in a cave trying to get a guy out for several days. He died…I lived.
I am unfamiliar with this particular cave but I will go with the odds and say that there is water and food stored in the cave. We have been putting emergency rations in caves for decades. I have personally put hundreds of MRE’s in plastic containers with water in caves all over the globe.
I get your point about risking the lives of other people, particularly young people. But, nothing ventured is nothing gained. This cave is most likely well known and the entrance/exit can flood in sudden rain. That has happened to me at least a half dozen times.
They are most likely just fine and nothing will do much good but time for the water level to drop.
Dave has a point. I’d venture that the current relative popularity of soccer is not only because it’s an international sport, but also because soccer moms everywhere see it as a safer alternative to, say, football.
There’s also an argument that if kids aren’t given an opportunity to engage in some risk, they’ll come up with such an activity on their own. Anybody who as a kid launched off a barn roof with a homemade hang glider knows what I’m talking about. If not, they’re probably a golfer.
Shh…you will spoil all my fun. If you go on they might find out there is more to being a Father than 5 minutes with a Mom.
But, I come from a time when Fathers were ashamed to find out their son liked dick more than Mom did.
Now its a badge of honor. Just because I defend their right to like dick, does not mean I have to agree with it.
Betcha there would be a lost less Man Buns in the world if the sperm donor actually hung around and at least attempted to man up.
5 MINUTES? You are a super-stud and my hero
Prayers for a successful rescue. Four months of food? I would think one of the first things to do would be to figure out how to pump out water in case the water where they are begins to rise toward the top of the area where they are. Saw on TV that some of the passages they had to go through were quite narrow.
I imagine the medical personnel have sent in drugs to help with anxiety?
Read on the news they have already tried sumping some of the areas and it wasn’t proving beneficial. Now the search is for some surface fissures to back door to these kids. Who knows?
I’m thinking the coach took them into the cave to try to back door the kids in the first place.
My understanding of Thailand is that “Monsoon” is an inadequate word for their rainy season.
Moses would have to be summoned to part those cave waters.