Thai cave rescue, information, live feed links and resouces ( Archived) (132)

A helicopter flies over the Chiang Rai Prachanukroh hospital, around 50 miles from the rescue site, following two ambulances which arrived earlier.

The press conference is underway.
A round of applause erupted after Chiang Rai governor Narongsak Osottanakorn said he had met the children.
He said their health is “perfect” and called today the “best situation”.
50 foreign divers and 40 Thai divers are currently involved in the rescue operation.

Four boys confirmed rescued with another operation planned in 10 hours
The boys travelled 1km underwater with the first coming out at 5:40pm local time.
The operation chief, Narongsak Osottanakorn, says four out of the 12 boys have so far been rescued and were taken straight to hospital
Rescue workers now need 10 hours to prepare for the next stage of this remarkable operation.

The rescue has been concluded for the night and will resume in 10-20 hours because “we’ve used all the oxygen,” according to the operation chief.
“Its actually just falling quiet here,” says Dan Johnston on the BBC News Channel. “There’s been a lot of activity in the past few minutes. It looks like people are leaving this site for the night.
“One thing to bear in mind is the tiredness levels of the cave diving exerts who are leading this operation. They have been working busily all day and it looks like some of them are actually leaving the dive site now.
“It looks like they’ve taken the decision that they have done as much as they can for today.”
The operation is set to resume at 8am local time with officials and volunteers buoyed by the fact that their method of rescuing the boys by diving has been successful insofar.

The Thai Navy Seals have wished everyone pleasant dreams in a Facebook post as today’s rescue operation comes to a close.
Have a good dream tonight.
Night
Hooyah

I hope all get out ok. Can't even imagine what they must be going through.

Positive thoughts and good wishes.....goes a long way....

Just to recap, four boys from a group of 12 children who have been trapped inside a cave in northern Thailand for more than two weeks have been freed, authorities have confirmed.
Here’s the full story from Michael Safi, Veena Thoopkrajae and Jacob Goldberg who are reporting in Mae Sai for the Guardian.

Steve Whitlock, an experienced caver who was part of a rescue mission in one of the deepest mines in the world in Mexico, tells the BBC that its not over until all of the people are out of the cave, “including the rescuers”.
“I would caution people to just be a little bit careful because we’ve still got an awful amount of people who still need to come out of that cave.
Explaining how you would give a crash course in cave diving in an emergency situation, Whitlock says “you have to put them in the gear that they’ll be moving through the cave through.”
“You find a safe piece of water which isn’t submerged, ie not covered by a cave passage above, and you put them in the water, you see how they react,” he says.
In Mexico, he explains, the people he rescued did not swim, they following a rope out of the cave and crawled.
“Now they may well have used the same method [in Thailand], because the moment you make them neutrally buoyant - and that means that they can float around - they become more difficult to manage,” Whitlock says.
This means that they are not diving straight into the unknown and you are able to reassure them with your presence.

A few minutes after operation chief Narongsak Osatanakorn addressed the media, heavy rain began falling over the press centre, where hundreds of journalists are working to report this latest chapter in the the Tham Luang saga.
With raincoats draped over heads and computers, we feel just a fraction of the urgency that rescue workers must be feeling as water - the element that started this mess - continues to hamper the rescue effort.