May 28, 2026
One Miracle Down, Another To Go! How Rescuers Plan To Bring Trapped Men Out Of Cave
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RSS Feed It is nothing short of miraculous to hear how expert divers plan to rescue the 5 men trapped nearly 1000 feet down in a narrow, flooded cave. Rescuers have a plan A and a plan B, one being slightly less dangerous than the other, but both are fraught with potential dangers. Meantime, the search continues for the other two missing men, with rescuers urging family members to not give up hope.
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00:00:02
Speaker 1: Hey, they're folks. It is Thursday, May twenty eighth. One miracle down by finding those folks in the cave alive. It's gonna take now another miracle perhaps to get them out with that. Welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ story they're watching all over the world, Robes, the race against time to try to find them. Now, Robes, I guess they can take a beat. But Robes, it sounds like another miracle is necessary to get them out. This seems impossible.
00:00:33
Speaker 2: It does, and just I mean, I've been watching the videos, as I'm sure many of you have, from these expert divers who found a way to get to those five men who were on that elevated ledge, cramped huddled together, but oh so grateful to see rescuers finally find them.
00:00:53
Speaker 3: They are getting some nourishment because.
00:00:55
Speaker 2: They were obviously severely malnourished after being down there. This is day nine for them, so they didn't have the strength to even consider any sort of an extraction at that moment. But we are hearing they have a Plan A and a Plan B. Both of them are going to be dangerous and complex, but they're saying, if all goes well, they could possibly start bringing up these men as early as today.
00:01:21
Speaker 1: Yeah, and Plan B sucks.
00:01:23
Speaker 3: Plan BE is scary.
00:01:24
Speaker 1: You do not want to do Plan B. But they seem pretty hopeful about Plan A. The reminder here, we're talking about in Laos. These seven believe to have gone into this cave looking for gold, mining for gold. Essentially go down, floodwaters come in, they all get trapped. They were missing until about two days ago when they did find them alive, found five of them robes. We should mention that the other two are still missing at this point, they're still holding out some hope robes, but this is where we are. But this was a huge, huge win robes to find these five men huddled on top of a boulder, it looks like with nothing but water around them, just waiting. And man, they're fair. They look so young.
00:02:06
Speaker 3: Giving their names, they looked like.
00:02:07
Speaker 1: A couple of them look like babies, like really really young guy. Yeah, mom and dad, I miss you. So that is huge. But now the plan robes and this is going to be incredible to watch the work. For them to just get in there was already impressive enough. A reminder, we're talking about a thousand foot tunnel.
00:02:27
Speaker 2: Yes, that is as narrow as two feet in some sections, and several of those sections are completely submerged in water because it was that rain water. It was those massive rains that flooded this cave system that trapped these villagers in this cave to begin with. And they're still dealing with rain, torrential rain. They had to stop some of the search and efforts, and certainly they're concerned about the rescue efforts and rain. They're constantly watching the radar. But what they've done today is position a large generator as close to the cave entrance as possible to pump out water. They are literally trying to drain the cave so that these five men can crawl out and actually use the root that they came in on. So that's the best and easiest and we say easy, but that's a relative word, right.
00:03:20
Speaker 1: But this is the option they want and the one they think they have. And Robes remind we talk about getting a generator to the area just the jungle, just walking to the area is difficult. This is going to take time. There are not any rush necessarily now, Robes and want to get this right. But just to remind their folks that the idea of a generator. It sounds so simple, just haul one over. They're hauling this thing through two and a half miles of steep jungle.
00:03:44
Speaker 2: Yes, it's uphill, steep, rocky two and a half miles in thick jungle. That they're bringing a huge generator to quicken the pace of the pump to get this water out to drain the cave. So yes, the men then could theoretically use the same entrance that they came in on. And there are they say that there are pockets where they know that if yes, water comes rushing back in or the rain suddenly begins, Because as you're starting this trek, the weather can change, the rain can all of a sudden start pouring in.
00:04:15
Speaker 3: So they have to have basic little escape routes.
00:04:18
Speaker 2: And they say that route does have pockets where these villagers have already traversed, so they'll know how and when to seek shelter or safety if the rains come while they're trying to get out.
00:04:30
Speaker 1: That's terrifying robes. But I'm not sure how long they expect the journey to take. But they're talking about crawling, so one at a time crawling, Yes, right, we're having to crawl through a thousand plus feet of that. How long does that take? Right? How quickly can these rains come to where you might end up in that position and end up trapped?
00:04:50
Speaker 2: It's over, Yes, And it's so interesting because they have to even going out the way they came going out the way they came in, they're still going to have to have oxygen tanks. They're going to have to have adapted cave stretchers in case the villagers become too weak.
00:05:07
Speaker 3: Think about it, They have not had much nourishment.
00:05:09
Speaker 2: Yes, they were able to get some food and water to them, but certainly not what they need. These guys are completely depleted, so they have to actually prepare for them to possibly faint and just deal with that.
00:05:22
Speaker 1: What does that feel like? You're talking about guys who have been really in a stationary position for the most part for the past week without food robes. Just stretching it out is difficult to do in though, and you don't have any nourishment rope. This is a treacherous journey for them to get out, just as a matter of what they're physically capable of doing.
00:05:43
Speaker 3: Yes, and listen to this.
00:05:44
Speaker 2: Based on the length of rope that the rescuers had to use because they have put by the way just and this makes a lot of sense. They have taken a rope from the cave entrance all the way down to where they found these men, and they literally use this rope as a guide because you are blinded. Even though they have equipment and they can see through certain dark areas, the water they have to go through at times is so muddy they describe the visibility as zero. So you're holding onto this rope to get to and from. But they say there's also hydrogen sulfide that is building up in this cave, and it's this foul smelling gas that's given off by bat droppings that are inside this cave chamber, and they say it's actually caused some crew members to faint, so the rescueees coming out will also have to deal with that as they're going through a dark, rocky, dangerous tunnel. It's like every single sense that you have is being overwhelmed. It's just such an unbelievable operation. It's hard to get my head around.
00:06:48
Speaker 1: It is so impressive what they're doing, and we should give them credit for Yet we mentioned this earlier, just how they've been putting out the updates. How I called them social media savvy, but they are doing an incredible service. There's no way to get reporting out of their correct right rrect. Nobody can go down there, So them sending it out and keeping the whole world informed about this and about their work, they are doing an incredible service to us all. And it really or this is so impressive on other level stuff what they're doing, and I respect firefighters and police officers, some dangerous stuff they have to do. Roads these are these are superhuman people to me.
00:07:26
Speaker 2: They certainly are. And look the potential dangers of this. They kind of have gone over this, and a lot of this has come from the dive team, from the rescue team themselves on social media. But one of the rescuers said, the main danger is running out of air and getting stuck. So we need a what he described as a water tight safety and rescue back up plan ready to go instantly, because yes, they're worried about more rain and floodwaters are there's the potential of collapse like some of these rocky structures in the way these cave systems are, it's delicate and all these people coming in and out could absolutely cause a collapse.
00:08:05
Speaker 3: There's also contaminated air quality down there, even though they do have that air pocket.
00:08:10
Speaker 2: That's a concern, and low oxygen supplies that's a concern. And then they also just talked about anxiety. The idea that one of these rescuees could start panicking in the middle of the rescue is a real threat not only to the person being rescued, but the person who is rescuing them, because when you start to panic, which I honestly think is probably yes, you just imagine you're going through this tight, dark, scary tunnel and you're imagining rain water coming in on you. Like I can't think of a more anxiety inducing situation period.
00:08:48
Speaker 1: So everybody probably listening is at a moment in an elevator where it bumps a little bit or delays and you forget, am I going to get start ropes? Claustrophobia, It's something we nobody likes tight spaces, to think of being trapped and water is coming in. You don't know how much water, you don't know if you've got enough hair, you don't know, robes.
00:09:11
Speaker 3: And your life is on the line.
00:09:13
Speaker 1: So we have to be clear here, Robes. The danger just you know, we re celebrated. We were so excited when they were found. The Yes, that's step one, but this is terrifying.
00:09:24
Speaker 2: It certainly is, I mean, my goodness. So that was plan as.
00:09:28
Speaker 3: That's the easier of the two plans.
00:09:31
Speaker 2: When we come back, we're gonna tell you if they can't get that water pumped out well enough to have them go out the way they came in, we're going to tell you what Plan B is and what the rescue teams have said about those still two missing other villagers. Welcome, come back everyone to this episode of Amy and TJ, where we are talking about this unbelievably complex and dangerous extraction that is about to take place in Laos for those five trapped villagers who were found yesterday miraculously, but now another miracle literally has to happen for them to get these five men out safely. We went over before the break what their best option is. But if they can't make that work, if they can't drain the cave enough, the other possibility is to bring those villagers up through the same way the rescue team came to find them, and the problem with that is that these men are not experienced divers and The only people who were able to get through were extremely experienced divers.
00:10:54
Speaker 3: You've seen the video.
00:10:55
Speaker 2: They had to take their equipment off at some points to flatten their bodies enough to squeeze through some of these areas. And they will be if they have to go through this method tethered, so there'd be a rescuer tethered to a rescuee. So they have to literally follow this expert diver behind them, without any training, without any knowledge of this, stay calm, and they have to figure out the very scary oxygen tank situation because when you're nervous, you go through more oxygen.
00:11:31
Speaker 3: You have to be prepared for anything and everything. And so they actually said they have like a third rule. Have you heard about this.
00:11:37
Speaker 2: You've done some scuba diving where you can use a third on the way in to go, get them a third on the way back, and then they have to keep another third of their oxygen tank and reserve in case their evacuee needs extra air rops.
00:11:54
Speaker 1: How much do they how much underwater are they having to breathe? Do they have to breathe? There's some breathable air down there, there is some, but how much along the way No, matter if you're underwater or not. Will they need to be breathing that oxygen.
00:12:06
Speaker 2: They need to be breathing the oxygen at all times because the air that they are breathing is not good air quality, and it's just intermittent throughout this system.
00:12:16
Speaker 3: And yes, you do have to go underwater.
00:12:18
Speaker 2: The way that rescuers came in, the way the rescuees would have to go back out that same route is just not something that an amateur or certainly someone who doesn't have diving experience, it's it's it makes the situation all the more dangerous.
00:12:33
Speaker 1: Well, they got to get a crash course, they might have to, and that's just yes, we don't have to do.
00:12:37
Speaker 3: That might be the only way.
00:12:38
Speaker 1: Forecast what they expect today. But it's like we keep saying rainy season, but it's all in all, we're talking torrential stuff. We're not talking about a thunderstorm coming through.
00:12:47
Speaker 2: Yeah, and did you realize I didn't know this? So they've referred back because a couple of these guys were the same rescuers who rescued those boys, those twelve boys, the soccer team and their coach from the Tie Caves back in twenty eighteen. Did you realize I forgot about this that they ended up sedating those boys, putting them in a full faced scuba mask, and then literally they were tethered to a diver and they were it was described as being ferried underwater to get them out. But the only way they could do it is by sedating them, because there's no way they would have been able to mentally taking it in and been able to actually do what was required.
00:13:28
Speaker 1: And there are reasons there is an age limit if you go scuba diving anywhere around the world. They don't let a fourteen year old go. I guess sixteen at least, but eighteen plus. There's a reason for that. Rose. It is stressful stuff to be underwater, even if you're going down there to vacation. Roe just the idea of breathing under water. If anything goes wrong, I'm gonna drown and die. Ropes that will freak you out. It will also freak you out when you're looking at your dive instructor or whatever and he has one mouthpiece in his mouth and then an extra like, what's the extra for? Well, in case you get in trouble, I need to give you oxygen.
00:13:59
Speaker 2: That stuff is scary, scary, and then you have divers explaining it like this. Unlike open water diving, which you were just describing, how scary enough that is, Cave divers cannot make a direct ascent in an emergency.
00:14:15
Speaker 3: You don't have the option of going up.
00:14:19
Speaker 2: You actually can't get out in any straight line or in any easy way. So if you have an emergency, the idea of an emergency in an underwater cave, I cannot talk about anxiety inducing.
00:14:34
Speaker 3: So that is a big deal.
00:14:35
Speaker 2: And look, we've been talking a lot about the oxygen we and their social media savviness. It's pretty cool. They are actually on social media asking for help. They say, we need as many oxygen tanks as we can get here in the thick of this jungle. They say they need at least thirty, but I think they're just asking for as many as they can get. And they really are trying to have this refilling station in front of the cave because even when these folks get out, they're just gonna need extra oxygen. This is a big part of the rescue. And those two missing they say they are still searching for them. And here's interesting. I thought this was interesting. I CNN is reporting they actually were not with the five. They were a separate group who entered separately from them, So that would explain why they're not together and the five don't necessarily know where the other two are.
00:15:27
Speaker 1: I didn't like that detail when I heard that. I oh no, because I mean all we heard was seven went in, the group was together, they found five, Like, oh my goodness, how did they get separated from there? Well, they weren't with that those folks in the first place, So robes, I guess they could be anywhere. There's anyone who could give there's nobody that can give them an indication. Oh yeah, we saw them last time where they were going here going There's nothing right that doesn't Yeah, that doesn't really bode well for.
00:15:54
Speaker 2: The Rescuers did publicly urge the family members of those two missing to not lose hope, that they are still working on trying to find them, and they still do have time technically to find them. If they're in a spot where they have air, they can drink the water, however contaminated it may be, but they can drink, they will be if they can breathe, it's and they'll have a little more time in terms of food and nourishment.
00:16:19
Speaker 3: It's not ideal, but they could still be a lot.
00:16:22
Speaker 1: Nine days man. That is, they had to have had some supply of some kind with them. You said they went in kind of prepared with equipment. Maybe they had food and back up and they were able to ration it out. But really, really hope there's reason to have hope because we got five absolutely right the reason all.
00:16:37
Speaker 2: Right, Well, we will of course continue to keep our eye on this developing situation see if they possibly will somehow make it to the surface today, maybe tomorrow, But of course we will hop back on and keep you updated.
00:16:50
Speaker 3: We always appreciate you listening to us. Everyone. I'm Amy Roboch alongside TJ. Holmes. We will talk to you soon.
00:17:00
Speaker 1: Two two
Speaker 1: Hey, they're folks. It is Thursday, May twenty eighth. One miracle down by finding those folks in the cave alive. It's gonna take now another miracle perhaps to get them out with that. Welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ story they're watching all over the world, Robes, the race against time to try to find them. Now, Robes, I guess they can take a beat. But Robes, it sounds like another miracle is necessary to get them out. This seems impossible.
00:00:33
Speaker 2: It does, and just I mean, I've been watching the videos, as I'm sure many of you have, from these expert divers who found a way to get to those five men who were on that elevated ledge, cramped huddled together, but oh so grateful to see rescuers finally find them.
00:00:53
Speaker 3: They are getting some nourishment because.
00:00:55
Speaker 2: They were obviously severely malnourished after being down there. This is day nine for them, so they didn't have the strength to even consider any sort of an extraction at that moment. But we are hearing they have a Plan A and a Plan B. Both of them are going to be dangerous and complex, but they're saying, if all goes well, they could possibly start bringing up these men as early as today.
00:01:21
Speaker 1: Yeah, and Plan B sucks.
00:01:23
Speaker 3: Plan BE is scary.
00:01:24
Speaker 1: You do not want to do Plan B. But they seem pretty hopeful about Plan A. The reminder here, we're talking about in Laos. These seven believe to have gone into this cave looking for gold, mining for gold. Essentially go down, floodwaters come in, they all get trapped. They were missing until about two days ago when they did find them alive, found five of them robes. We should mention that the other two are still missing at this point, they're still holding out some hope robes, but this is where we are. But this was a huge, huge win robes to find these five men huddled on top of a boulder, it looks like with nothing but water around them, just waiting. And man, they're fair. They look so young.
00:02:06
Speaker 3: Giving their names, they looked like.
00:02:07
Speaker 1: A couple of them look like babies, like really really young guy. Yeah, mom and dad, I miss you. So that is huge. But now the plan robes and this is going to be incredible to watch the work. For them to just get in there was already impressive enough. A reminder, we're talking about a thousand foot tunnel.
00:02:27
Speaker 2: Yes, that is as narrow as two feet in some sections, and several of those sections are completely submerged in water because it was that rain water. It was those massive rains that flooded this cave system that trapped these villagers in this cave to begin with. And they're still dealing with rain, torrential rain. They had to stop some of the search and efforts, and certainly they're concerned about the rescue efforts and rain. They're constantly watching the radar. But what they've done today is position a large generator as close to the cave entrance as possible to pump out water. They are literally trying to drain the cave so that these five men can crawl out and actually use the root that they came in on. So that's the best and easiest and we say easy, but that's a relative word, right.
00:03:20
Speaker 1: But this is the option they want and the one they think they have. And Robes remind we talk about getting a generator to the area just the jungle, just walking to the area is difficult. This is going to take time. There are not any rush necessarily now, Robes and want to get this right. But just to remind their folks that the idea of a generator. It sounds so simple, just haul one over. They're hauling this thing through two and a half miles of steep jungle.
00:03:44
Speaker 2: Yes, it's uphill, steep, rocky two and a half miles in thick jungle. That they're bringing a huge generator to quicken the pace of the pump to get this water out to drain the cave. So yes, the men then could theoretically use the same entrance that they came in on. And there are they say that there are pockets where they know that if yes, water comes rushing back in or the rain suddenly begins, Because as you're starting this trek, the weather can change, the rain can all of a sudden start pouring in.
00:04:15
Speaker 3: So they have to have basic little escape routes.
00:04:18
Speaker 2: And they say that route does have pockets where these villagers have already traversed, so they'll know how and when to seek shelter or safety if the rains come while they're trying to get out.
00:04:30
Speaker 1: That's terrifying robes. But I'm not sure how long they expect the journey to take. But they're talking about crawling, so one at a time crawling, Yes, right, we're having to crawl through a thousand plus feet of that. How long does that take? Right? How quickly can these rains come to where you might end up in that position and end up trapped?
00:04:50
Speaker 2: It's over, Yes, And it's so interesting because they have to even going out the way they came going out the way they came in, they're still going to have to have oxygen tanks. They're going to have to have adapted cave stretchers in case the villagers become too weak.
00:05:07
Speaker 3: Think about it, They have not had much nourishment.
00:05:09
Speaker 2: Yes, they were able to get some food and water to them, but certainly not what they need. These guys are completely depleted, so they have to actually prepare for them to possibly faint and just deal with that.
00:05:22
Speaker 1: What does that feel like? You're talking about guys who have been really in a stationary position for the most part for the past week without food robes. Just stretching it out is difficult to do in though, and you don't have any nourishment rope. This is a treacherous journey for them to get out, just as a matter of what they're physically capable of doing.
00:05:43
Speaker 3: Yes, and listen to this.
00:05:44
Speaker 2: Based on the length of rope that the rescuers had to use because they have put by the way just and this makes a lot of sense. They have taken a rope from the cave entrance all the way down to where they found these men, and they literally use this rope as a guide because you are blinded. Even though they have equipment and they can see through certain dark areas, the water they have to go through at times is so muddy they describe the visibility as zero. So you're holding onto this rope to get to and from. But they say there's also hydrogen sulfide that is building up in this cave, and it's this foul smelling gas that's given off by bat droppings that are inside this cave chamber, and they say it's actually caused some crew members to faint, so the rescueees coming out will also have to deal with that as they're going through a dark, rocky, dangerous tunnel. It's like every single sense that you have is being overwhelmed. It's just such an unbelievable operation. It's hard to get my head around.
00:06:48
Speaker 1: It is so impressive what they're doing, and we should give them credit for Yet we mentioned this earlier, just how they've been putting out the updates. How I called them social media savvy, but they are doing an incredible service. There's no way to get reporting out of their correct right rrect. Nobody can go down there, So them sending it out and keeping the whole world informed about this and about their work, they are doing an incredible service to us all. And it really or this is so impressive on other level stuff what they're doing, and I respect firefighters and police officers, some dangerous stuff they have to do. Roads these are these are superhuman people to me.
00:07:26
Speaker 2: They certainly are. And look the potential dangers of this. They kind of have gone over this, and a lot of this has come from the dive team, from the rescue team themselves on social media. But one of the rescuers said, the main danger is running out of air and getting stuck. So we need a what he described as a water tight safety and rescue back up plan ready to go instantly, because yes, they're worried about more rain and floodwaters are there's the potential of collapse like some of these rocky structures in the way these cave systems are, it's delicate and all these people coming in and out could absolutely cause a collapse.
00:08:05
Speaker 3: There's also contaminated air quality down there, even though they do have that air pocket.
00:08:10
Speaker 2: That's a concern, and low oxygen supplies that's a concern. And then they also just talked about anxiety. The idea that one of these rescuees could start panicking in the middle of the rescue is a real threat not only to the person being rescued, but the person who is rescuing them, because when you start to panic, which I honestly think is probably yes, you just imagine you're going through this tight, dark, scary tunnel and you're imagining rain water coming in on you. Like I can't think of a more anxiety inducing situation period.
00:08:48
Speaker 1: So everybody probably listening is at a moment in an elevator where it bumps a little bit or delays and you forget, am I going to get start ropes? Claustrophobia, It's something we nobody likes tight spaces, to think of being trapped and water is coming in. You don't know how much water, you don't know if you've got enough hair, you don't know, robes.
00:09:11
Speaker 3: And your life is on the line.
00:09:13
Speaker 1: So we have to be clear here, Robes. The danger just you know, we re celebrated. We were so excited when they were found. The Yes, that's step one, but this is terrifying.
00:09:24
Speaker 2: It certainly is, I mean, my goodness. So that was plan as.
00:09:28
Speaker 3: That's the easier of the two plans.
00:09:31
Speaker 2: When we come back, we're gonna tell you if they can't get that water pumped out well enough to have them go out the way they came in, we're going to tell you what Plan B is and what the rescue teams have said about those still two missing other villagers. Welcome, come back everyone to this episode of Amy and TJ, where we are talking about this unbelievably complex and dangerous extraction that is about to take place in Laos for those five trapped villagers who were found yesterday miraculously, but now another miracle literally has to happen for them to get these five men out safely. We went over before the break what their best option is. But if they can't make that work, if they can't drain the cave enough, the other possibility is to bring those villagers up through the same way the rescue team came to find them, and the problem with that is that these men are not experienced divers and The only people who were able to get through were extremely experienced divers.
00:10:54
Speaker 3: You've seen the video.
00:10:55
Speaker 2: They had to take their equipment off at some points to flatten their bodies enough to squeeze through some of these areas. And they will be if they have to go through this method tethered, so there'd be a rescuer tethered to a rescuee. So they have to literally follow this expert diver behind them, without any training, without any knowledge of this, stay calm, and they have to figure out the very scary oxygen tank situation because when you're nervous, you go through more oxygen.
00:11:31
Speaker 3: You have to be prepared for anything and everything. And so they actually said they have like a third rule. Have you heard about this.
00:11:37
Speaker 2: You've done some scuba diving where you can use a third on the way in to go, get them a third on the way back, and then they have to keep another third of their oxygen tank and reserve in case their evacuee needs extra air rops.
00:11:54
Speaker 1: How much do they how much underwater are they having to breathe? Do they have to breathe? There's some breathable air down there, there is some, but how much along the way No, matter if you're underwater or not. Will they need to be breathing that oxygen.
00:12:06
Speaker 2: They need to be breathing the oxygen at all times because the air that they are breathing is not good air quality, and it's just intermittent throughout this system.
00:12:16
Speaker 3: And yes, you do have to go underwater.
00:12:18
Speaker 2: The way that rescuers came in, the way the rescuees would have to go back out that same route is just not something that an amateur or certainly someone who doesn't have diving experience, it's it's it makes the situation all the more dangerous.
00:12:33
Speaker 1: Well, they got to get a crash course, they might have to, and that's just yes, we don't have to do.
00:12:37
Speaker 3: That might be the only way.
00:12:38
Speaker 1: Forecast what they expect today. But it's like we keep saying rainy season, but it's all in all, we're talking torrential stuff. We're not talking about a thunderstorm coming through.
00:12:47
Speaker 2: Yeah, and did you realize I didn't know this? So they've referred back because a couple of these guys were the same rescuers who rescued those boys, those twelve boys, the soccer team and their coach from the Tie Caves back in twenty eighteen. Did you realize I forgot about this that they ended up sedating those boys, putting them in a full faced scuba mask, and then literally they were tethered to a diver and they were it was described as being ferried underwater to get them out. But the only way they could do it is by sedating them, because there's no way they would have been able to mentally taking it in and been able to actually do what was required.
00:13:28
Speaker 1: And there are reasons there is an age limit if you go scuba diving anywhere around the world. They don't let a fourteen year old go. I guess sixteen at least, but eighteen plus. There's a reason for that. Rose. It is stressful stuff to be underwater, even if you're going down there to vacation. Roe just the idea of breathing under water. If anything goes wrong, I'm gonna drown and die. Ropes that will freak you out. It will also freak you out when you're looking at your dive instructor or whatever and he has one mouthpiece in his mouth and then an extra like, what's the extra for? Well, in case you get in trouble, I need to give you oxygen.
00:13:59
Speaker 2: That stuff is scary, scary, and then you have divers explaining it like this. Unlike open water diving, which you were just describing, how scary enough that is, Cave divers cannot make a direct ascent in an emergency.
00:14:15
Speaker 3: You don't have the option of going up.
00:14:19
Speaker 2: You actually can't get out in any straight line or in any easy way. So if you have an emergency, the idea of an emergency in an underwater cave, I cannot talk about anxiety inducing.
00:14:34
Speaker 3: So that is a big deal.
00:14:35
Speaker 2: And look, we've been talking a lot about the oxygen we and their social media savviness. It's pretty cool. They are actually on social media asking for help. They say, we need as many oxygen tanks as we can get here in the thick of this jungle. They say they need at least thirty, but I think they're just asking for as many as they can get. And they really are trying to have this refilling station in front of the cave because even when these folks get out, they're just gonna need extra oxygen. This is a big part of the rescue. And those two missing they say they are still searching for them. And here's interesting. I thought this was interesting. I CNN is reporting they actually were not with the five. They were a separate group who entered separately from them, So that would explain why they're not together and the five don't necessarily know where the other two are.
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Speaker 1: I didn't like that detail when I heard that. I oh no, because I mean all we heard was seven went in, the group was together, they found five, Like, oh my goodness, how did they get separated from there? Well, they weren't with that those folks in the first place, So robes, I guess they could be anywhere. There's anyone who could give there's nobody that can give them an indication. Oh yeah, we saw them last time where they were going here going There's nothing right that doesn't Yeah, that doesn't really bode well for.
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Speaker 2: The Rescuers did publicly urge the family members of those two missing to not lose hope, that they are still working on trying to find them, and they still do have time technically to find them. If they're in a spot where they have air, they can drink the water, however contaminated it may be, but they can drink, they will be if they can breathe, it's and they'll have a little more time in terms of food and nourishment.
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Speaker 3: It's not ideal, but they could still be a lot.
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Speaker 1: Nine days man. That is, they had to have had some supply of some kind with them. You said they went in kind of prepared with equipment. Maybe they had food and back up and they were able to ration it out. But really, really hope there's reason to have hope because we got five absolutely right the reason all.
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Speaker 2: Right, Well, we will of course continue to keep our eye on this developing situation see if they possibly will somehow make it to the surface today, maybe tomorrow, But of course we will hop back on and keep you updated.
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Speaker 3: We always appreciate you listening to us. Everyone. I'm Amy Roboch alongside TJ. Holmes. We will talk to you soon.
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