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This woman has always personified beauty and grace in my opinion.

I got this from my local golf club today.  Written by a local poet.  I thought it was worth sharing.

WHEN DIVERS DICED WITH DEATH

In the annals of cave-diving history, you will find forged indelibly there, this account of submerged anaesthesia, in a rescue beyond the compare. It was Twenty Eighteen when it happened, then a soccer team called the Wild Boars, went exploring a cave there in Thailand, unaware in this cave the rain pours. It was then monsoon rains came in downpours, and the flood waters rose in the cave; now the lives of the players were threatened. What before had been safe, now was grave. Team officials and parents grew anxious, for they'd traced where the boys then had fled, but without any mobile connection, who's to know, who's alive who is dead. Then the news quickly spread through the nations and a need for a rescue acute. It was obvious divers were needed, to explore, find an underground route. And cave-divers descended in dozens with the British the best-of-the-best, Europeans, Americans also and the Thai's Navy SEALs joined the rest. None was sure if recover or rescue, was the mission they needed to do, but all knew if they didn't act quickly, then recover would be the rescue. With the cave knowledge Vern Unsworth gathered, having lived in Chaing Rai year by year, he explained where the boys might be standing but this statement he made very clear. “You will need only world class cave divers, others won't have the skills that we need. Get John Volanthen, also Rob Harper and Rick Stanton's, the one who should lead.” And these divers, that's John and Rick Stanton, found alive the Wild Boars in the cave, though they still had to figure a method, how these thirteen young lives they could save. There was urgency now for a rescue, as the chance of more flooding arose, and of all of the rescue proposals, a cave-dive underwater they chose. But teen boys had no knowledge of diving, and could panic, be frantic with fear, they'd have four kilometres of blackness, jagged rock that could puncture their gear. “Anaesthetic”, Rick Stanton suggested, “ if unconscious the boys would be still; and I know, Harry Harris, an Aussie, a cave-diver and doctor with skill.” Now at first Harry needed convincing, if unconscious, submerged, they'd survive, but he saw this the best of the options, and went with this anaesthetised dive. Harry knew fellow doctor, Craig Challen, would be needed as part of his scheme, so they flew to Chaing Rai meeting others, who were part of the rescuing team. Then with Rick, Rob and John, Craig and Harry, they agreed to use drug ketamine, a sedation without complications, though repeats, they would need down the line. 1. Chamber nine was where boys had been stranded, with their coach who was known as Ekk and with them, four Thai SEALs, one a doctor; he was Pak, who kept party in check. So when Harry and Craig emerged weary, kilometres from where they began, they found everyone happy and healthy, and expecting a rescuing plan. They explained that next day they'd bring wetsuits, and each boy get a tank and a mask, then sedated, unconscious they'd travel, and get home to their family at last. It was Harry who carried the burden to conduct this anaesthetised dive. if this failed, he'd be labelled a killer; should have chose, other means, to survive. But the boys were not told of the dangers, that their rescuers thought could arise. Like if waking, they'd see, only darkness, and this darkness, could well mesmerise, causing fear, that might lead on to panic, and its panic for divers that kills, and it's worse with a teenager diver, who's without, diving knowledge, or skills. On the fifteenth day of their entrapment, the first rescue procedure began. Boys got oxygen, mask and a wetsuit; wrists and ankles restrained was the plan. This was done to prevent lateral movement, fouling tubes on the rocky limestone. Then the ketamine drug was injected and unconscious on backs they lay prone. They were ferried, feet first by a diver, with directions that should the boy stir, anaesthetic again would be needled, so that consciousness did not occur. This successful, unconscious, submergence, to recover those trapped at Chiang Rai was the first in cave rescue procedure, a procedure now others could try. All the boys did emerge health and hearty, after seventeen days in the cave, only then were they told how a diver, passed away in his efforts to save. He was former Thai SEAL Saman Kunan, volunteering to get the boys clear, to the boys Saman's their greatest hero, they will honour Sam year after year.. In events of the twenty-first century, this is one that is hard to believe, for the odds of success were abysmal, yet against all these odds they'd achieve. They'd achieve the quintessence of rescues, thirteen lives that seemed destined to die, would be saved by heroic endeavour, by a team that believed they should try. And while nations may have disagreements, these dissolved when this crisis was seen, for the best of the best came in hundreds and achieved beyond hope's wildest dream.

Noel Stallard OAM September 2020

This email came from Dr. Richard Harry Harris 30 minutes after he got a copy of the poem

Hi Noel, I am writing to express my gratitude for the poem you wrote. It is a fabulous work and rivals the Man From Snowy River! It tells the story beautifully and I am more than impressed with your skills. Gestures like these make me incredibly proud and grateful to have been involved in this extraordinary event. If you are ok with it, I would like to share to wait the other rescue divers. (it with) With kind regards Harry

This smacks of pay back.

Extortion is not restricted to criminals, nor bad treatment of others and their families.

This may or may not be random.

14 hours ago, elliss said:

So sad , to see these geriatric , has beens .. Rip.

   

 

a no talent comment from the peanut gallery.

These selfish maggots live in the woodwork of society and crawl out at any chance.  The word consideration seems to mean nothing to them.

4 hours ago, MajarTheLion said:

I'm going to take a wild guess and say the Australian people were also fed huge steaming piles of you-know-what by their government. And even if they weren't, you can only lock up people for so long, deprive them of their livelihoods and manifest a cure worse than the disease before people begin resisting and rising up. We're seeing this in many countries. People have had enough. Life must go on.

and if they have their way then death will go on as well.