Rescuing 13 Trapped In Cave, Thailand - Page 6

foxwagon · 10-07-2018, 11:40 AM

Rescue operation for remaining resumes
Hope by tonight everyone will be accounted for

lenghan · 10-07-2018, 11:44 AM

Final push for the final 5 members. Pray that mother nature will be kind to allow a safe rescue for these 5 members plus all the wonderful divers and all involved in this risky operations.

streetsmart73 · 10-07-2018, 01:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lenghan

Final push for the final 5 members. Pray that mother nature will be kind to allow a safe rescue for these 5 members plus all the wonderful divers and all involved in this risky operations.

Hear hear. Lets pray

globalcookie · 10-07-2018, 04:59 PM

Backtrack a bit.... The Doctor in the cave is a Thai NavySEAL trained doctor. Someone told me the doctor in the cave with the boys, is Australian doctor. But when I search, it mentioned Thai NavySEAL trained doctor, Dr Pak Loharnshoon.

Respect!

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CHIANG RAI - A team of medical personnel from the Thai army, including a military doctor and a nurse, are by the side of the 13 footballers who have been trapped for more than 10 days inside a flooded cave where rescuers are racing against time to get them out before the onset of monsoon rains.

A clip posted on "ThaiSEAL" Facebook page on Wednesday (July 4) morning showed the footballers and their coach on a small mound inside Tham Luang cave.

The clip shows Dr Pak Loharnshoon, who is from the Thai army, applying medicine to minor wounds suffered by some of the boys.

They were able to communicate clearly with the doctors and seemed to be in good health.

The team of medical personnel arrived at the mound at 11am on Tuesday (July 3) after making a six-hour dive-and-trek perilous journey via the cave entrance.

The team consist of Dr Pak, who had graduated from the Seal training course, a nurse from the Royal Thai Navy's underwater and hyperbaric medicine unit, and seven members of the Thai navy Seals.

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BANGKOK - An Australian doctor is one of the international dive experts at the centre of the effort to rescue a group of Thai boys and their football coach trapped in a cave in Chiang Rai.

Dr Richard Harris, an anaesthetist from Adelaide, undertook the dangerous dive to the boys and their coach on Saturday (July 7), reported The Sydney Morning Herald.

He gave the final review on the boys' health, paving the way for the rescue attempt on Sunday that led to four boys being extracted.

It is understood that British divers participating in the rescue specifically asked for Dr Harris' expertise, and that he went back into the cave to assist in the operation.

Mr David Strike, a dive event organiser who has known Dr Harris for more than a decade, said Dr Harris had all the characteristics needed for the dangerous mission.

"He's been diving for over 30 years, and readily embraced advances in diving technology to better help him explore and photograph caves in Australia and overseas," Mr Strike told Fairfax Media.

globalcookie · 10-07-2018, 05:29 PM

The Assistant Coach

MAE SAI, Thailand — The head coach of the Thai soccer team spent the morning of June 23 preparing his young assistant for an important task: looking out for the boys by himself.

Nopparat Khanthavong, the 37-year-old head coach of the Moo Pa (Wild Boars) soccer team, had an appointment that morning. Ekapol Chanthawong, his assistant, was to take the younger boys to a soccer field nestled by the Doi Nang Non mountain range, a formation with numerous waterfalls and caves that straddles the Thai-Myanmar border.

“Make sure you ride your bicycle behind them when you are traveling around, so you can keep a lookout,” he wrote in a Facebook message he shared with The Washington Post. Ekapol coaches the younger boys, so Nopparat told him to bring some of the boys from the older team for additional eyes.

“Take care,” he wrote.

The hours that followed kicked off a chain of events that has riveted the world: a dramatic search and rescue that found the boys alive nine days later, huddled on a small, muddy patch surrounded by floodwaters. Attention has focused on the only adult, 25-year-old former novice monk Ekapol, and the role he has played in both their predicament and their survival.
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As the rush to figure out how to rescue the group continues, some have chided Ekapol for leading the team into the cave. A large warning sign at the cave’s entrance raises the risk of entering so close to the monsoon season, they say, and he should have known better.

But for many in Thailand, Ekapol, who left his life in the monkhood three years ago and joined the Wild Boars as an assistant coach soon after, is an almost divine force, sent to protect the boys as they go through this ordeal. A widely shared cartoon drawing of Ekapol shows him sitting cross-legged, as a monk does in meditation, with 12 little wild boars in his arms.

According to rescue officials, he is among the weakest in the group, in part because he gave the boys his share of the limited food and water they had with them in the early days. He also taught the boys how to meditate and how to conserve as much energy as possible until they were found.

“If he didn’t go with them, what would have happened to my child?” said the mother of Pornchai Khamluang, one of the boys in the cave, in an interview with a Thai television network. “When he comes out, we have to heal his heart. My dear Ek, I would never blame you.”

Ekapol was an orphan who lost his parents at age 10, friends say. He then trained to be a monk but left the monastery to care for his ailing grandmother in Mae Sai in northern Thailand. There, he split his time between working as a temple hand at a monastery and training the newly established Moo Pa team. He found kindred spirits in the boys, many of whom had grown up poor or were stateless ethnic minorities, common in this border area between Myanmar and Thailand.

“He loved them more than himself,” said Joy Khampai, a longtime friend of Ekapol’s who works at a coffee stand in the Mae Sai monastery. “He doesn’t drink, he doesn’t smoke. He was the kind of person who looked after himself and who taught the kids to do the same.”

He helped Nopparat, the head coach, devise a system where the boys’ passion for soccer would motivate them to excel academically. If they got certain grades in school, they would be rewarded with soccer gear, such as fresh studs for their cleats or a new pair of shorts. The two spent time looking for sponsors and used the Moo Pa team to prove to the boys that they could become something more than their small town would suggest — even professional *athletes.

“He gave a lot of himself to them,” Nopparat said. He would ferry the boys to and from home when their parents could not and took responsibility for them as if they were his own family.

He also kept the boys on a strict training schedule, according to physical education teachers at the school field where they practiced. That included biking across the hills that surround Mae Sai.

On that Saturday two weeks ago, Nopparat did not know where Ekapol would be bringing the young soccer team but thought it would be a learning experience for him to manage them on his own.

The older Wild Boars were having a match in the evening, he said, so he put his phone away. When he checked it at 7 p.m., there were at least 20 calls from worried parents, none of whose sons had come home. He frantically dialed Ekapol and a number of the boys in quick succession but reached only Songpol Kanthawong, a 13-year old member of the team whose mother picked him up after training. He told Nopparat that the team had gone exploring in the Tham Luang caves. The coach raced up there, only to find abandoned bicycles and bags at its entrance and water seeping out the muddy pathway.

“I screamed — ‘Ek! Ek! Ek!’ ” he said. “My body went completely cold.”

Information had slowly started to come outabout the boys’ nine-day ordeal before they were eventually found on Monday night, through letters and limited communication between the coach, the team and the rescuers who have been with them in a small cave chamber.

The rush of euphoria that ran through the town of Mae Sai and across the world when the group was found has settled into a grim reality that neither Ekapol nor the 12 in his care may see daylight for days or even weeks. Officials said Saturday that they have a three- to four-day window in which conditions will be “most favorable” for the boys to attempt to dive out before monsoon rains hit and continue for months.

Friends, meanwhile, grow worried for Ekapol. He had the boys’ complete trust, and it is unlikely that they would have set off *exploring in the cave’s chambers without him.

“I know him, and I know he will blame himself,” said Joy, his friend at the monastery.

On Saturday morning, the Thai Navy posted photos of letters that the group had written to their family and the outside world. Ekapol’s, scribbled on a yellow-stained piece of paper, torn out from a notebook, was brief, but included a promise and an apology.

“I promise to take the very best care of the kids,” he wrote. “I want to say thanks for all the support, and I want to apologize.”

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Hope he will be able to manage his psychological well-being and not blame himself.

richardg · 10-07-2018, 08:31 PM

JUST IN: An 11th person has been carried out of #ThamLuang cave complex on stretcher, Reuters reports, citing a witness.

loveikan · 10-07-2018, 08:34 PM

Yup
Live in CNA a min ago showing the ambulance enter the hospital.

Twelveth person in chamber 2.

loveikan · 10-07-2018, 09:02 PM

12 boys and coach rescued.

**Ong88** · 10-07-2018, 09:29 PM

All out

Congrats

bedoklist · 10-07-2018, 10:15 PM

Great....really is mission impossible become possible.

10-07-2018, 04:59 PM	#54
globalcookie Dragon Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 1,446	Backtrack a bit.... The Doctor in the cave is a Thai NavySEAL trained doctor. Someone told me the doctor in the cave with the boys, is Australian doctor. But when I search, it mentioned Thai NavySEAL trained doctor, Dr Pak Loharnshoon. Respect! --------------------------------- CHIANG RAI - A team of medical personnel from the Thai army, including a military doctor and a nurse, are by the side of the 13 footballers who have been trapped for more than 10 days inside a flooded cave where rescuers are racing against time to get them out before the onset of monsoon rains. A clip posted on "ThaiSEAL" Facebook page on Wednesday (July 4) morning showed the footballers and their coach on a small mound inside Tham Luang cave. The clip shows Dr Pak Loharnshoon, who is from the Thai army, applying medicine to minor wounds suffered by some of the boys. They were able to communicate clearly with the doctors and seemed to be in good health. The team of medical personnel arrived at the mound at 11am on Tuesday (July 3) after making a six-hour dive-and-trek perilous journey via the cave entrance. The team consist of Dr Pak, who had graduated from the Seal training course, a nurse from the Royal Thai Navy's underwater and hyperbaric medicine unit, and seven members of the Thai navy Seals. ------------------------------------- BANGKOK - An Australian doctor is one of the international dive experts at the centre of the effort to rescue a group of Thai boys and their football coach trapped in a cave in Chiang Rai. Dr Richard Harris, an anaesthetist from Adelaide, undertook the dangerous dive to the boys and their coach on Saturday (July 7), reported The Sydney Morning Herald. He gave the final review on the boys' health, paving the way for the rescue attempt on Sunday that led to four boys being extracted. It is understood that British divers participating in the rescue specifically asked for Dr Harris' expertise, and that he went back into the cave to assist in the operation. Mr David Strike, a dive event organiser who has known Dr Harris for more than a decade, said Dr Harris had all the characteristics needed for the dangerous mission. "He's been diving for over 30 years, and readily embraced advances in diving technology to better help him explore and photograph caves in Australia and overseas," Mr Strike told Fairfax Media. Last edited by globalcookie; 10-07-2018 at 05:05 PM.

10-07-2018, 09:29 PM	#59
Ong88 Prof SK Ong Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 10,641	All out Congrats __________________ Just because it's a bad idea doesn't mean it won't be a good time. Use imgur for your photos sharing https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...m.imgur.mobile

10-07-2018, 11:40 AM	#51
foxwagon Dragon Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 1,181	Rescue operation for remaining resumes Hope by tonight everyone will be accounted for

10-07-2018, 11:44 AM	#52
lenghan Arofanatic Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 71	Final push for the final 5 members. Pray that mother nature will be kind to allow a safe rescue for these 5 members plus all the wonderful divers and all involved in this risky operations.

10-07-2018, 05:29 PM	#55
globalcookie Dragon Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 1,446	The Assistant Coach MAE SAI, Thailand — The head coach of the Thai soccer team spent the morning of June 23 preparing his young assistant for an important task: looking out for the boys by himself. Nopparat Khanthavong, the 37-year-old head coach of the Moo Pa (Wild Boars) soccer team, had an appointment that morning. Ekapol Chanthawong, his assistant, was to take the younger boys to a soccer field nestled by the Doi Nang Non mountain range, a formation with numerous waterfalls and caves that straddles the Thai-Myanmar border. “Make sure you ride your bicycle behind them when you are traveling around, so you can keep a lookout,” he wrote in a Facebook message he shared with The Washington Post. Ekapol coaches the younger boys, so Nopparat told him to bring some of the boys from the older team for additional eyes. “Take care,” he wrote. The hours that followed kicked off a chain of events that has riveted the world: a dramatic search and rescue that found the boys alive nine days later, huddled on a small, muddy patch surrounded by floodwaters. Attention has focused on the only adult, 25-year-old former novice monk Ekapol, and the role he has played in both their predicament and their survival. ... As the rush to figure out how to rescue the group continues, some have chided Ekapol for leading the team into the cave. A large warning sign at the cave’s entrance raises the risk of entering so close to the monsoon season, they say, and he should have known better. But for many in Thailand, Ekapol, who left his life in the monkhood three years ago and joined the Wild Boars as an assistant coach soon after, is an almost divine force, sent to protect the boys as they go through this ordeal. A widely shared cartoon drawing of Ekapol shows him sitting cross-legged, as a monk does in meditation, with 12 little wild boars in his arms. According to rescue officials, he is among the weakest in the group, in part because he gave the boys his share of the limited food and water they had with them in the early days. He also taught the boys how to meditate and how to conserve as much energy as possible until they were found. “If he didn’t go with them, what would have happened to my child?” said the mother of Pornchai Khamluang, one of the boys in the cave, in an interview with a Thai television network. “When he comes out, we have to heal his heart. My dear Ek, I would never blame you.” Ekapol was an orphan who lost his parents at age 10, friends say. He then trained to be a monk but left the monastery to care for his ailing grandmother in Mae Sai in northern Thailand. There, he split his time between working as a temple hand at a monastery and training the newly established Moo Pa team. He found kindred spirits in the boys, many of whom had grown up poor or were stateless ethnic minorities, common in this border area between Myanmar and Thailand. “He loved them more than himself,” said Joy Khampai, a longtime friend of Ekapol’s who works at a coffee stand in the Mae Sai monastery. “He doesn’t drink, he doesn’t smoke. He was the kind of person who looked after himself and who taught the kids to do the same.” He helped Nopparat, the head coach, devise a system where the boys’ passion for soccer would motivate them to excel academically. If they got certain grades in school, they would be rewarded with soccer gear, such as fresh studs for their cleats or a new pair of shorts. The two spent time looking for sponsors and used the Moo Pa team to prove to the boys that they could become something more than their small town would suggest — even professional athletes. “He gave a lot of himself to them,” Nopparat said. He would ferry the boys to and from home when their parents could not and took responsibility for them as if they were his own family. He also kept the boys on a strict training schedule, according to physical education teachers at the school field where they practiced. That included biking across the hills that surround Mae Sai. On that Saturday two weeks ago, Nopparat did not know where Ekapol would be bringing the young soccer team but thought it would be a learning experience for him to manage them on his own. The older Wild Boars were having a match in the evening, he said, so he put his phone away. When he checked it at 7 p.m., there were at least 20 calls from worried parents, none of whose sons had come home. He frantically dialed Ekapol and a number of the boys in quick succession but reached only Songpol Kanthawong, a 13-year old member of the team whose mother picked him up after training. He told Nopparat that the team had gone exploring in the Tham Luang caves. The coach raced up there, only to find abandoned bicycles and bags at its entrance and water seeping out the muddy pathway. “I screamed — ‘Ek! Ek! Ek!’ ” he said. “My body went completely cold.” Information had slowly started to come outabout the boys’ nine-day ordeal before they were eventually found on Monday night, through letters and limited communication between the coach, the team and the rescuers who have been with them in a small cave chamber. The rush of euphoria that ran through the town of Mae Sai and across the world when the group was found has settled into a grim reality that neither Ekapol nor the 12 in his care may see daylight for days or even weeks. Officials said Saturday that they have a three- to four-day window in which conditions will be “most favorable” for the boys to attempt to dive out before monsoon rains hit and continue for months. Friends, meanwhile, grow worried for Ekapol. He had the boys’ complete trust, and it is unlikely that they would have set off exploring in the cave’s chambers without him. “I know him, and I know he will blame himself,” said Joy, his friend at the monastery. On Saturday morning, the Thai Navy posted photos of letters that the group had written to their family and the outside world. Ekapol’s, scribbled on a yellow-stained piece of paper, torn out from a notebook, was brief, but included a promise and an apology. “I promise to take the very best care of the kids,” he wrote. “I want to say thanks for all the support, and I want to apologize.” ----------------------- Hope he will be able to manage his psychological well-being and not blame himself.

10-07-2018, 08:31 PM	#56
richardg Arofanatic Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 120	JUST IN: An 11th person has been carried out of #ThamLuang cave complex on stretcher, Reuters reports, citing a witness.

10-07-2018, 08:34 PM	#57
loveikan Arofanatic Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 384	Yup Live in CNA a min ago showing the ambulance enter the hospital. Twelveth person in chamber 2.

10-07-2018, 09:02 PM	#58
loveikan Arofanatic Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 384	12 boys and coach rescued.

10-07-2018, 10:15 PM	#60
bedoklist Dragon Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 1,160	Great....really is mission impossible become possible.

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