Craig Challen: Thai cave rescue
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- čas přidán 22. 08. 2024
- Craig Challen and Richard Harris joined an international team of diving and caving experts in Thailand to rescue twelve boys and their coach who were trapped by rising water in a cave. Craig relives this experience and explains how they achieved success against all odds.
Craig has been awarded the W.A. 2019 Australian of the Year and Richard, the S.A. 2019 Australian of the Year.
As well, together, they have been awarded joint Australians of the Year 2019.
My Dad was a caver. He took is to tourist type caves when we were little but when I turned 9 he took me on a real cave adventure with him in Kentucky. To make a long story short.... I didn't share his passion, in fact I hated it, I was uncomfortable and scared and I remember it being dark and cramped and dirty. Now that he's gone I wish I have been able to share those times with him. At his funeral he had lots of his cave buddies come and tell stories. Later in my life I got into honey bees something that my dad was not into it all so I guess we all have our passions.
Great presentation, Craig is a natural public speaker. Really enjoyed this and thanks to everyone who had a hand in getting those kids out.
The best and most candid summary of the rescue. Respect to all of the volunteers whodrpped everything and rushed to help. The BCRC was brillia.nt I hope you all have a good time using the free passage for life to Thailand and make the caves of Thailand the most mapped and explored caves in the world. Free holidays for life Ha Ha .
That area is also known colloquially as the, "Golden Triangle."
A sometimes extremely dangerous dichotomy between rice paddies and opium gangs.
It's a very dangerous place to live for some.
I've noticed, mainly in the comments under other videos about the cave rescue, alot of people calling the kids and their coach, "stupid," so it's nice to finally see a video about the topic that shows how unlikely their circumstance was.
The monsoon season doesn't typically start in the Golden Triangle until at least mid July, so it was bad luck, not stupidity, that was to blame for their situation.
The kids, who weren't unfamiliar with the cave, and even professional cave explorers can usually navigate the cave system relatively safely until at least early July.
Even if it did rain, it usually only rains a couple inches max before the monsoon season begins.
Before 2018 the earliest beginning to the monsoon season on record in that area was 1964, and that was June 27.
June 23rd was HARDLY a risky time.
The kids were unlucky, NOT stupid.
And thanks to the worldwide response, they're all alive today.
TWSTF 8 With global warming, the exception becomes the rule. Your compassion is admirable.
no opium in Thai side of Golden Triangle anymore tho
people in the area plant coffee and move on from opium
Thank you for your kindness for helping the kids. Informative presentation too. I think the dam and the pumping have helped the diving and the rescue more easily.
Thanks for doing what you do! You are awesome!!!
Thx for posting. The facts for a refreshing change. The boys done good👍
thank you for this contribution ... the first really good detailed report on the cave rescue that I have see´n !!! of course respect and thanks for craig challen, dr. Richard Harris and for all divers and all volunteers ... 👍
Thanks again Craig 🇹🇭
I know who I am calling if I ever get stuck in a cave!!!
Yep I watched the poor effort of a movie that the Thai military govt approved (the cave) and I knew a friend of officer Samran (who died) so I am so glad I found this talk. I will be glad to share this as it’s the truth!
An Epic operation and Very Interesting, Thanks.
"One of the TRUE HERO good job sir"
The untold story is that Rick Stanton and John Volathen of The British Cave Rescue Council initially found it too difficult and dangerous to penetrate into the cave and were about to give up when two other divers were called in, Ben Reymenants of Belgium and Maksym Polejaka of Ukraine.
Ben and 'Max' did ALL the ground work in way of exploring the right side of the T junction and laying of guide ropes through the most difficult sections- making the rescue possible and yet are barely mentioned in most articles and documentaries. Ben was the first to say the kids would need to be brought out in full face masks and was ridiculed and shunted off to manage the O2 tank replenishment station.
However both were recognized by The Thai Royal Navy and His Majesty The King to receive medal commendations.
See more of the FULL story here
czcams.com/video/qGC7vWTLVE8/video.html
Thank you!!! Finally someone that knows the truth!! Thanks to Max and Ben for laying out the red carpet for these pompous British dudes
It's NOT completely true! Rick Stanton and John Volanthen were not about to give up! They simply wanted more equipments and less "bullshit beliefs" as praying the sleeping princess Nang Non and useless rituals ! They even insited during the first Thai governor of the province to dive immediately! They were looking down at by some Navy Seals calling them "old amateurs" ... Rick and John were heroic beyond belief !
@@FATSIDEDOWN The British divers saved the kids ... Obviously, you have a lot of hate inside you ! Your comment won't change the facts ! It only defines you !
I've watched so many variations of this story by now. Obviously a lot of egos involved, but also incredible collaboration. Whoever lay those lines and whoever came up with the idea to anaesthetise the boys, and the guys who handled logistics - altogether unbelievably heroic and miraculous they all survived.
@@FATSIDEDOWN tall poppy much. This is now the fourth video you have commented on pushing the same thing. Max and Ben only got to the t-junction. Those pompous British dudes as you put it took the biggest risk in carrying those kids out of those caves. You give no credit to anyone who took part in the rescue other than Max and Ben. There were other people involved or are you that naive
Thanks for posting....Informative..
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34:20 This is something the reporting tends to get confused about a lot, although I think it's understandable. It's usually reported that they were worried about the boys getting sick due to their immune systems being weakened by their ordeal in the cave. In fact, it's the opposite. The doctors would have been worried about an infection of something originating in the cave taking root in the boys and getting strong enough in them for them to then infect their parents. As far as I can tell, the boys and Coach Eak were lucky enough to avoid infection, but a Thai Navy SEAL named Beirut Pakbara died in 2019 from an infection he contracted during the rescue, so the doctors were right to take precautions.
As for Craig and the other divers, since they were in the same cave environment, they wouldn't be at much more risk of contracting something from the boys that they wouldn't have already contracted at some point during their time in the cave, so it's a much lesser risk. I don't recall where exactly I saw it since I've been watching everythign I can get my hands on about this case, but I have seen an interview with Dr Harris where he mentions being very surprised that he and the other divers got away without more preventative medicines.
thx u
Very informative. Thank You.
That KFC complete the story😄
Gosh the anaesthetists had to teach unskilled volunteers to assess & decide whether to top up the kids anaesthetic & then administer it after training using plastic bottles. I'm surprised as I thought teams of thai doctors would have done this. Hooray for cave diving hobbyists, lets hope more people from other nations get into that & become highly experienced, the more the better :-)
actually they had sent the doctor who also be thai navy seal to be with the kids after they were found.
On the way out, in the dry areas of the cave, the divers had to administer more of the anesthesia. They had to make judgments and inject an additional dose.
How come a movie showed divers dived for 6-8 hours before finding the boys? Hollywood dramatization i guess. It gave the impression that the whole rescue would take a total of 6-8 hours for each kid. Glad it was just 2-3 hours.
Round trip. There and back again.
He's a sweet lad.
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That area is far from Golden Triangle about 50 kilometres.
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The carrier back to Australia is Antonov 124, I think.
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All people worked hard...why all the credit took only by British divers?
Too much cutting up the film
Appreciate feedback. Noted.
but the cave was flooded before, I would not go there in monsoon