Author Topic: 12 soccer players and their coach found in Thailand cave  (Read 659 times)

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Offline Omni

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Glad they have been found. It sounds like the caves are fairly long, and they are miles from the entrance. Flooding is common in monsoon season (June-October) so they have a long wait for the waters to recede.

I think the bigger problem with teaching them to swim and dive is getting them comfortable in the long, dark, and disorienting path they need to follow. It would be interesting to know what is the longest swim they would need to make, how long and narrow the passages are, and especially how deep. Flood waters also move mud and rocks around and further complicate things.

You missed one other alternative, and that is to create a new cave entrance closer to their location, but this is not without risk and will also take some time.

I am trying to see if there are any maps of this cave system available. I haven't found much so far, probably the best one is here.

I was also thinking about looking up a map but haven't done so yet, I was wondering if there was a possibility of drilling down to them from the surface and lifting them out through the bore hole.