BREAKING NEWS NINTH boy rescued from Tham Luang cave - Live updates

[tukkytuktuk]

The seal facebook page says they are waiting for 4 seals to come out of the cave.

https://m.facebook.com/ThaiSEAL/

[chickenslegs]

6 minutes ago, NCC1701A said:

UPDATE at 7pm: Waiting for the three SEAL divers and the medic to exit the cave. They had been keeping the boys company #ThaiNavySEAL #ThamLuang #พาทีมหมูป่ากลับบ้าน #ถ้ำหลวง #Thailand #ThaiCaveRescue

 

https://twitter.com/RichardBarrow/status/1016655066713845760

Great news so far but those medics and seals have been in the cavern since 3 July. We need to know they are safe before the fat lady can sing.

[chickenslegs]

2 minutes ago, RT555 said:

The cave WAS CLOSED. Because OF FLOODING. read much? 

Go back to the first thread on this incident, then read all the 30+ other threads. You are wrong. The cave was not closed, and it was not flooded when they entered.

[Tony Hanscomb]

Would be a good idea to block caves to prevent this kind of problem in the future.

[InfinityandBeyond]

Can only imagine how overwhelmed with joy the parents are!!!!

[Jai Dee]

Four SEAL team divers — including a doctor — who stayed with the group were still to emerge, the SEALs said.

All 12 boys and their soccer coach trapped for more than two weeks deep inside a flooded Thai cave have been rescued, a Thai navy SEAL unit said on July 10, a successful end to a perilous mission that has gripped the world.

“All 12 ‘Wild Boars’ and coach have been extracted from the cave,” the Thai Navy SEALs said in a Facebook post.

“All are safe,” it added, signing off with a “Hooyah”, a SEALs signature throughout the painstaking mission to get the boys out of the cave.

Four SEAL team divers — including a doctor — who stayed with the group were still to emerge, the Facebook post added.

The “Wild Boars” soccer team and their coach got trapped on June 23 while exploring the cave complex in the northern Province of Chiang Rai after soccer practice and a rainy season downpour flooded the tunnels.

British divers found the 13, hungry and huddled in darkness on a muddy bank in a partly flooded chamber several kilometres inside the complex, on Monday last week.

After pondering for days how to get the 13 out, a rescue operation was launched on July 8 when four of the boys were brought out, tethered to rescue divers. Another four were rescued on July 9 and the last four boys and the coach were brought out on July 10.

Celebrations will be tinged with sadness over the loss of a former Thai navy diver who died on July 6 while on a re-supply mission inside the cave in support of the rescue.

Some wanted chocolate bread for breakfast

The eight boys brought out on July 8 and 9 were in good health overall and some asked for chocolate bread for breakfast, officials said.

Two of the boys had suspected lung infections but the four boys from the first group rescued were all walking around their hospital beds.

They are still being quarantined from their parents because of the risk of infection and would likely be kept in hospital for a week to undergo tests, officials said.

Four more of the boys were carried on stretchers out of the labyrinthine Tham Luang cave on the Myanmar border at dusk on Monday, bringing to eight the number brought out after two rescue pushes on successive days.

People across Thailand, and the world, have cheered the rescue operation, including at the Mae Sai Prasitsart school where six of the trapped boys are students.

Technology billionaire Elon Musk went into the cave on Monday and left the rescue team with a “kid-sized” submarine his company SpaceX had built, Thailand's interior Minister Anupong Paochinda said.

Mr. Musk said on Twitter: “Just returned from Cave 3. Mini-sub is ready if needed. It is made of rocket parts & named Wild Boar after kids' soccer team. Leaving here in case it may be useful in the future.”

[hobobo]

Best news out of Thailand for many many years. There are 13 local heroes, and many hundred other heroes! And if the kids want to go to the World Cup Final (if they even know about the FIFA offer), they should be allowed to go. They are footballers after all!

[Jai Dee]

All 13 rescued from flooded cave, says Thailand navy SEAL unit

Read more here... 

 

[stanleycoin]

19 minutes ago, davemos said:

Please let them go to the World cup ?

yes , that will be nice for them to watch England win 

Edited July 10, 2018 by stanleycoin

[upu2]

At last the situation is over with all the boys and the coach out of the cave. Congratulations to all the people who took part in the rescue, excellent result and all should be very proud of the rescue

Edited July 10, 2018 by upu2

[Mark mark]

Bloody Great !  …  And Nice Job, every one.  …  NICE JOB.

 

Great thanks to the Explorers that found them, the rescuers, the medical people, and all the Pilots and drivers, and all of the Logistics and Emergency Services people.

 

I am an old, Big Mission caver from Australia, and have done quite a few of the much bigger, and longer Thai stream passage caves, often swimming through the moving water in them, … and all along, I had no doubt that they would get them out, … if they could find them in time, … and they did.  …  Very Nice Job Fellas !

 

…  Great Job Chaps … and the Chopper Pilots and Ambulance drivers also.

 

…  So the Humor, … So now these boys have had some really great cave diving instruction, …  from the world’s best !  …  And passed a great practical exercise as well !  …  So they should all get Certificates of proficiency ?  Right  …

 

…  And now they have more than playing football, that they can do around their homes right up there at the top of Thailand, where there are a LOT of similar caves to this. 

 

 ….  I wonder if any of them will become future cave divers, … and one day be able to rescue others, … like they just have been.

 

…  A Very Positive out come all round, … though Condolences to the family of the man that died.  …  Almost a seamless outcome.
 

[Bangkok Ape]

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaasssssssssss

[Jai Dee]

 

 

[Sheryl]

The 4 (Navy Doc + 3 SEALS) who spent a week caring for the boys are still not out.....hope nothing wrong.

[greenchair]

Someone needs to give that coach a really big hug. 

 

[upu2]

Just now, Sheryl said:

The 4 (Navy Doc + 3 SEALS) who spent a week caring for the boys are still not out.....hope nothing wrong.

According to Al Jazeera they are also out of the cave

[Brunolem]

Some of the heroes...

 

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/07/09/meet-seven-british-divers-playing-leading-roles-thai-cave-rescue/

[Tug]

This operation will go down as one of the most epic rescue dives in history well done please let us know when all personal have safely exited the cave wonderfully absoulity epic told you those little wild boars were tough!!!epic wow!!!

[Sheryl]

1 minute ago, upu2 said:

According to Al Jazeera they are also out of the cave

They've been right so far...great!

[stanleycoin]

2 minutes ago, Sheryl said:

The 4 (Navy Doc + 3 SEALS) who spent a week caring for the boys are still not out.....hope nothing wrong.

Oh, let's hope all is ok.

[upu2]

Just now, Tug said:

This operation will go down as one of the most epic rescue dives in history well done please let us know when all personal have safely exited the cave wonderfully absoulity epic told you those little wild boars were tough!!!epic wow!!!

They are all out and at the hospital in Chiang Rai

[Lacessit]

Having been through this ordeal, it's very possible the boys and coach will be better for it. Nothing builds character like adversity.

[VBF]

2 minutes ago, Sheryl said:

They've been right so far...great!

Thinks: "Wonder how that particular foreign News Agency has been so efficient and discrete in its operations?"

May there be a lesson to be learned by some of the "take a guess" and drone-flying fools? 

Edited July 10, 2018 by VBF

[upu2]

1 minute ago, VBF said:

Thinks: "Wonder how that particular foreign News Agency has been so efficient and discrete in its operations?"

May there be a lesson to be learned? 

They have had a reporter at the cave entrance since it started. Others I am sure also have but slower to report

Edited July 10, 2018 by upu2

[Eligius]

2 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

Having been through this ordeal, it's very possible the boys and coach will be better for it. Nothing builds character like adversity.

You're right: adversity can build character indeed. But I think this is the type and degree of adversity that most of us can well do without!

[VBF]

6 minutes ago, upu2 said:

They have had a reporter at the cave entrance since it started. Others I am sure also have but slower to report

Exactly - and compliments to them for that and for their professionalism, is what i was aiming at.

Edited July 10, 2018 by VBF

[greenchair]

What a great day. ???

Edited July 10, 2018 by greenchair

[cmsally]

7 minutes ago, Brunolem said:

Some of the heroes...

 

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/07/09/meet-seven-british-divers-playing-leading-roles-thai-cave-rescue/

Nice one guys, you all deserve a beer !

[anon7867763]

Not fully celebrating until all (Seals and doctors) are out. Hopefully it's close.

Edited July 10, 2018 by johnsnapo

[RickBradford]

2 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

Having been through this ordeal, it's very possible the boys and coach will be better for it. Nothing builds character like adversity.

The Grim Reaper has stared them straight in the face, and has been overcome through the extraordinary efforts (and sacrifice) of others, plus their own courage.

 

I think they may well get a new appreciation for the fragility of life, and the need to create a meaningful existence. If so, it will be not only good for them, but Thailand as well.