General Chat

Excellent excellent news - enormous relief all round, and all credit to the brave men who made it possible.

Glad to hear it all worked out well.

All out :-D :-D :-D :-D

8th out :-)

7th out. :-)

6th out :-D

5th boy out, hopefully more soon.

The World holds it breathe for another day :-0 <3

If all goes well the first boy today should come out after 1:30pm BST.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/44755093

News in UK are reporting that the Australian doctor reversed the orders yesterday to bring out the strongest so the weakest could get out first. 4 to be rescued today, the strongest to stay with their coach until tomorrow.

The cave rescue resumed about four hours ago. Apparently the parents haven't been told which boys have been rescued.

Hilary, that's very sad. Whatever the owner and Captain pay won't bring back those poor people who were spending money trying to enjoy their holidays. May those lost rest in peace.

Lizx

Another disaster happened here at Phuket last Thursday, 2 tourist boats sunk in a storm& over 40 Chinese tourists lost their lives. Been overshadowed by cave rescue. May not have made English news. Still some missing. Thai government said Captain & owner will be made to pay as they were warned about the weather, 10 other boats did not leave island & stayed overnight & came back to Phuket Friday morning. Sad times here in Thailand at moment. My heart goes out to Chinese tourists & families who were just on a boat trip.

I do hope they can get more lads out, as well as the coach. I am glad he is not being vilified.

The bravery of the rescuers as well as the victims is incredible and I hope no more lives are lost. Valuable lessons will be learned from the situation, and maybe more youngsters will learn to swim, even dive, and become rescuers for any other water based problems.

Good luck to those rescued already, I hope they are recovering well and there will be more good news soon.

Lizxx

I am in Thailand on holiday & 4 boys out, rescue to start again 8am Thai time. No one over here seems to be against the coach & he will probably be a hero when all over. He rationed what food they had, didn't take any himself & kept the boys together, even the parents are not against him. Farmers have had their land flooded from the pumping out but even they are not moaning, the whole country praying for them & seems no one blaming coach.

Apparently there is a university somewhere that is making a little submarine contraption to try to get them out.

Our news reports are saying the four STRONGEST were brought out first, as they don't know whether the weakest could make it. It took them 8-11 hours to bring out the first 4.

They also did not have wet suits for the 3 smallest boys as of yesterday.


Heavy rain over tonight and tomorrow also expected, which could complicate matters

Confirmed only 4 out the rest tomorrow.

Worldwide attention rather infers he'll get a good talking to.

I think he may have cost the country a few bob as well and it possibly not the most responsible place to take a group of lads.