Quote from: "cc"http://www.foxnews.com/science/2018/07/17/terrifying-details-thai-cave-rescue-revealed-by-divers.html">The journey was broken up into nine sections and expert British divers were responsible for bringing them through the most complicated spots, using guide lines to help them navigate the passageways.



"We'd submerge with the kid. And depending how the line laid, we'd either have them on the right-hand side or the left-hand side, either holding their back or holding their chest," Mallinson said.



"I had to have the lad really close to me because if you didn't, you were bashing his head against the rocks," he said.



"If we bashed him against a rock too hard and it dislodged that mask and flooded his mask, he was a goner. So that's why we had to be very slow and careful about not banging them against rocks."



Instead Mallinson said he extended his head above the boy's so that his head hit the rocks instead.



"The visibility was that bad, you couldn't see the rock until you actually hit it," he said.



Two divers were assigned to each child so that at least one was always holding on to the child.



Australian diver Harris, assessed the children at different stages of the operation to ensure they were ok to continue.



"Without him, we wouldn't have been able to do what we did," Mallinson said. "His bedside manner when he was there with the kids and that, talking to them, calming them down and stuff like that.



"So yeah, he was the, the linchpin of the operation."



While it's been reported that Dr Harris also decided which children came out first, fellow Aussie diver Callen said this wasn't true. He said it was the decision of the boys, coach and Thai Navy SEALs who were with them. The group was told about the operation and they decided who came out first.

Quote from: "Bricktop"A true example of real courage. ....

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Quote from: "Bricktop"A true example of real courage. ....

" real courage" to a very high degree ... from start to finish and for everyone involved .. and from all angles



Together they did what was essentially  impossible to do at least so far as getting "everyone of them" out alive

Quote from: "caskur"Those divers got those kids out.... they thought they were going to be dead... they thought they'd lose 30-50% of them during the journey out.



One little bump of their full face masks and the boys would drown.... That is how worried they were. One tiny mistake and it was all over red rover!~

Quote from: "caskur"And when the last guys were coming out, one pump had broken and the cave was filling up with water and they just escaped with their own lives with mere minutes to spare..

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Quote from: "caskur"And when the last guys were coming out, one pump had broken and the cave was filling up with water and they just escaped with their own lives with mere minutes to spare..

That was close.

Quote from: "caskur"He's an idiot then... the fact that one experienced navy seal person died during the rescue course, proves it wasn't a safe journey.



I watched the documentary on the guys on ground zero and the words that came out of THEIR mouths.



One knock of those face masks on those kids meant instant death. The actual guys carrying them through the narrow passages could not even see the gap through the mud... those diving rescuers were bumping their heads on rocks the whole way.