Great news about the boy soccer players.

[lonelywombat]

The official debriefing mentions only 4 boys have emerged and one has been flown by helicopter to hospital.
All in the diiving rescue team are safe
Diving operations has ceased for today
The boys travelled 1km underwater
Rescue operators have announced a 10 hour break before resuming.

live coverage on
https://www.theguardian.com/world/li...pped-boys-live
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.

[lonelywombat]

in the longest article I have seen published , this was published just a few moments ago.
It includes many photos, descriptions on the trip , who was selected and why'
For those searching for good new news it is satisfying.
reports of the baby size submarine built bt Eton Tusk are included

https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/wo...375d8351060fa8

[lonelywombat]

just 2 minutes ago on Guardian the following summary.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/li...ed-latest-news
[There appears confusion about whether the weakest boys were the first out or not. The Governor has stated in a press release the strongest boys came out first.]

Four of the boys have were rescued from the Tham Luang caves in Chiang Rai province on Sunday night
All four boys safely reached a hospital in Chiang Rai, the nearest major city
The operation was scheduled to resume between 7am and 5pm local time today, the coordinator of the rescue efforts said divers needed between 10 and 20 hours to rest and set up for another day’s work
Divers have not yet gone into the cave to resume rescue operations but would go in “soon”, sources told the Guardian
The remaining eight boys and their coach remain underground at the original location near to Pattaya beach
When they reached the surface, the divers turned and hugged the boys, who wore full-face scuba masks, after completing the 3.2km journey through the muddy, jagged cave
The operation proceeded much faster than expected due to the walkable water level in the cave after it was launched at 10am local time on Sunday
13 foreign divers and five Thai navy Seals made up the rescue team and were among a team of 90 divers involved in the rescue effort overall
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20m ago
12:35
Divers will begin rescue operation "soon"
Our reporters have had confirmation that divers have not gone into the cave for the rescue mission to bring out the remaining boys today, but are planning on doing so soon.

We don’t have a timeframe yet for when they will enter the cave, our reporters have just been told “soon”.

[cdnmatt]

This is the only place I've heard that the weakest got taken out first.

I'm sure the strongest got taken out first, because that only makes sense. They were worried if any of them could make the journey, so naturally would have went with the strongest first to see if it worked, and to pinpoint any problems that may occur with the weaker ones. Now they know, that amount of oxygen was just enough for 4, as more was used than they expected. And I'm sure there's lots of other things they learned during that first trip to help out during future trips.

Not to mention, I'm sure it was a huge morale boost when the others found out their friends made it out, which obviously helps in a situation like this.

No real news yet... hopefully they begin the operation again later today.

[Smiles]

"This is the only place I've heard that the weakest got taken out first. I'm sure the strongest got taken out first ... "

I understand you cannot believe you could possibly be wrong on any things (kind of like Trump), but try and cool your ego down for a few nano-seconds ... and read this.
Read? Yes? No?

http://www.businessinsider.com/thai-...nderway-2018-7

[lonelywombat]

Here's an interesting story of some politics playing out in Thailand - the man managing the cave crisis with overwhelming international attention has been demoted, as Michael Ruffles reports:

Chiang Rai governor Narongsak Osotanakorn has fought and lost another battle – to keep his job.

From the Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/li...ed-latest-news

It is now noon with no word from Narongsak.
from news corp
https://www.theguardian.com/world/li...ed-latest-news
We are still waiting for the daily press briefing from Narongsak Osatanakorn, the head of the joint command centre coordinating the operation. These have customarily occurred about 10am local time each day to let the hundreds of gathered reporters know what the plans are for the day.
It is now noon with no word from Narongsak

[frequent]

Here's an interesting story of some politics playing out in Thailand

It's a military dictatorship in a society where the patronage system is paramount, let's never forget

[latintopxxx]

frequent...unless one lives in little rocket man land...we all have access to the news...so dont know u r so eagerly posting old news

[scottish-guy]

frequent... dont know u r so eagerly posting old news

Here's some new News - it's not Frequent who is glued to his computer screen and relaying it all back to us, it's LW.

You've fingered the wrong person

[lonelywombat]

Here's an interesting story of some politics playing out in Thailand - the man managing the cave crisis with overwhelming international attention has been demoted, as Michael Ruffles reports:

Chiang Rai governor Narongsak Osotanakorn has fought and lost another battle – to keep his job.

From the Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/li...ed-latest-news
We are still waiting for the daily press briefing from Narongsak Osatanakorn, the head of the joint command centre coordinating the operation. These have customarily occurred about 10am local time each day to let the hundreds of gathered reporters know what the plans are for the day.

It is now noon with no word from Narongsak.