Int'l rescue effort closes in on soccer team trapped for 9 days in a flooded Thai cave

[Buzzrock 14,903]

https://mobile.twitter.com/mumthaz28591150/status/1015989828947546112

That might be the most holy shit thing I see all year.

[Parliament 14,249]

Holy shit.  They're gonna pull this off?

[retread 2,951]

Nightmare fuel there

[Hank Scorpio 17,729]

Wait, how are the divers getting the kids out without using Elon’s super sub? The divers aren’t even billionaires, so how can they be trusted? 

[El Diablo 4,232]

BBC TV is just saying 4 are out and divers will take 10 hour break now to rest. 

[retread 2,951]

Link to image describing choke point

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DhkfCzIXUAAPEZ2.jpg:large

Part of it

Edited July 8, 2018 by retread

[Pato del Muerto 52,487]

34 minutes ago, Buzzrock said:

 

That might be the most holy shit thing I see all year.

 

I know someone who did something like that for fun. Google the “grim crawl of death” in the great expectations cave. 

[MNLonghornFUKM 8,817]

Never stepping in a cave again. Will think twice about mudholes

[HenryJames 66,038]

26 minutes ago, retread said:

Link to image describing choke point

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DhkfCzIXUAAPEZ2.jpg:large

Part of it

[phdhorn 6,224]

31 minutes ago, retread said:

Link to image describing choke point

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DhkfCzIXUAAPEZ2.jpg:large

Part of it

I do that once coming out of my mother. Hell if I'm going to do that ever again!

[JohnnyRage 1,617]

So are the boys strapped down to a gurney as in the first pic, or diving like in the diagram? Or just diving past the choke point?

[Deej 76,756]

Wait, how are the divers getting the kids out without using Elon’s super sub? The divers aren’t even billionaires, so how can they be trusted? 

They had to give a deposit on the supersub. Now they just wait.

[C-Man 27,200]

53 minutes ago, Buzzrock said:

 

That might be the most holy shit thing I see all year.

 

[Deej 76,756]

Link to image describing choke point
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DhkfCzIXUAAPEZ2.jpg:large
Part of it

Size of passage relative to candy bars. They know the American audience.

[HenryJames 66,038]

5 minutes ago, phdhorn said:

I do that once coming out of my mother. Hell if I'm going to do that ever again!

I did that once coming into your mother.

[Prepuce of Doom 21,057]

6 minutes ago, Deej said:

44 minutes ago, retread said:

Link to image describing choke point
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DhkfCzIXUAAPEZ2.jpg:large
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Size of passage relative to candy bars. They know the American audience.

Maybe, but Mars bars? Who the fuck eats Mars bars in the US? Might as well use Chick-O-Sticks or something else equally obscure and unliked. 

Rather, I suspect it's geared at UK fatasses, where what they call a Mars bar is identical to our Milky Way. 

Edited July 8, 2018 by Prepuce of Doom

[52-80 19,147]

26 minutes ago, phdhorn said:

I do that once coming out of my mother. Hell if I'm going to do that ever again!

she wasnt that tight.

[52-80 19,147]

20 minutes ago, Deej said:

58 minutes ago, retread said:

Link to image describing choke point
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DhkfCzIXUAAPEZ2.jpg:large
Part of it

Size of passage relative to candy bars. They know the American audience.

mars bars tho.  not snickers.

[Deej 76,756]

My bad. Spent too much time in countries that were under the crown at some point. 

[Red Five 40,847]

I know everyone is thinking it but god damn this movie is going to be amazing. I’m thinking Ron Howard.

[Bevo 13,570]

Disney already has it copyrighted and trademarked

[ChickenSandwich 9,829]

Just lose Marky Fucking Mark’s number first. He is terrible in these and seems to be the go to guy. 

[Ten Bears 2,481]

 

 

50 minutes ago, HenryJames said:

I did that once coming into your mother.

"If we can find my keys, we can drive out of here."

[Zombie 284]

Crazy. Definitely holy shit right there.

That might be the most holy shit thing I see all year.

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[Zombie 284]

This has probably been addressed already, but how did those kids get so far into the cave in the first place. Did they take another route there that has since flooded?

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[retread 2,951]

I think the rain raised the water levels behind them. They could only go deeper to escape it.

[tokamak 6,395]

https://mobile.twitter.com/mumthaz28591150/status/1015989828947546112

Fuuuuuuck that. Nightmare fuel.

[clapclapclap 9,000]

1 hour ago, Red Five said:

I know everyone is thinking it but god damn this movie is going to be amazing. I’m thinking Ron Howard.

Who is going to play Maha Vajiralongkorn, the King of Thailand?

Edited July 8, 2018 by clapclapclap

[Vito Andolini 9,125]

6 minutes ago, clapclapclap said:

Who is going to play Maha Vajiralongkorn, the King of Thailand?

Asia Argento 

[woohorn 1,131]

Crazy thing about those first two divers is that they had to initially expect to just run into a bunch of dead bodies in that dark zero visibillity water.

[retread 2,951]

8 minutes ago, clapclapclap said:

Who is going to play Maha Vajiralongkorn, the King of Thailand?

[bluto 4,915]

Goonies sequel 

[1978horn 892]

It’s all over the second they ride up Thai’s bucket

[Lhorn 4,912]

I haven’t followed this closely. Were there adults that assisted them in getting into that cave?  If so they should be shot for stupidity. 

Edited July 9, 2018 by Lhorn

[Steel Shank 9,421]

Wait a fucking minute! I like Chic-o-Sticks!

[bluto 4,915]

Chick o stic, a Lufkin product

[clapclapclap 9,000]

^^^ Auschwitz, originally.

[JohnnyRage 1,617]

3 hours ago, Zombie said:

This has probably been addressed already, but how did those kids get so far into the cave in the first place. Did they take another route there that has since flooded?

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[Spur08 382]

So are the boys strapped down to a gurney as in the first pic, or diving like in the diagram? Or just diving past the choke point?

That pic was fake...i.e. not this event but some other crazy fuck stunt. And, yes, this movie is going to be awesome if all survive.

[dingleberryswitzer 2,724]

The movie better have sea monsters or aliens or some shit. 

 

 

Also if any of you have ever been in airman cave, whirlpool or maple run then you know the feeling of going through that tight  a passage.  Except  not with scuba gear on.

[Pato del Muerto 52,487]

In my fire rescue training, we’ve talked about having to take our tank off to fit through tight spaces, but haven’t actually trained it. 

[Whitman 694]

21 minutes ago, dingleberryswitzer said:

The movie better have sea monsters or aliens or some shit. 

And Jessica Alba as a concerned bra-less mother needing consoling.

 

PS:  Idea for the movie title:   "Phuket,... Just Get Them Out."  

 

 

 

Edited July 9, 2018 by Whitman

['stache 21,801]

Sounds like things are going swimmingly.

[Nolacycling 893]

my scuba instructor at UT died cave diving.

[Guest]

7 hours ago, ChickenSandwich said:

Just lose Marky Fucking Mark’s number first. He is terrible in these and seems to be the go to guy. 

drunken Billy Bob Thornton for the win....

[Onboard 2.0 9,083]

21 minutes ago, Nolacycling said:

my scuba instructor at UT died cave diving.

I've done a little spelunking over the years.  Cave diving has got to be the most dangerous thing you can do I know of.

[Fuck Tim Beck 3,815]

1 hour ago, Pato del Muerto said:

In my fire rescue training, we’ve talked about having to take our tank off to fit through tight spaces, but haven’t actually trained it. 

Fitlump?

[RDCanecutter 26,404]

12 minutes ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

I've done a little spelunking over the years.  Cave diving has got to be the most dangerous thing you can do I know of.

But that's where the tasty fishies are, hmmmm, Precious...

[LongestHorn 759]

"This is the most scary situation that a person could go through, said Anmar Mirza, national coordinator of the National Cave Rescue Mission. "You can't make a horror movie that would even compare... I've been involved in cave rescues for 30 years and I cannot even think of one that is this complicated."

"The trust factor between the children and diver makes it -- it's probably 90 percent of what gets them out of the cave," Mirza said.

Three kids and the coach are out safely.  Coach was in the worst shape because he had been giving the kids his food.

[Deej 76,756]

1 hour ago, Fuck Tim Beck said:

Fitlump?

She could actually be helpful. She could use her horn to widen the narrow spaces.