Great news.

It's a miracle, really.

Actually, it's been a month of miracles (the weather, Eng getting to WC semi, etc). Wonder if there's any more to come.

Agreed. The coach will not be thrown to the wolves.

If he was a foreigner, different story.

But i'm more inclined to look at the cultural perspective. Usually when things end well, many cultures do not want to sadden the occasion by punishing someone. They could easily brush it aside by saying 'This was God's will' or the parents of the kids could sympathize with the coach and some politician might come out with a pardon and score some points(I was expecting this to happen but it never did). Remember these are people who were waving fishing nets outside the caves to remove the bad spirits from where the kids were. They could easily come up with something to justify the coach's decision. I've never been to Thailand but someone who;s lived there would know how people usually react to sufferings that have a good ending.

do they know for a fact it was the coaches idea to go into the cave? maybe they went in & he went looking
for them?

Reckon a couple of nights good sleep and they will be ready for the WC Final.

All the kids are safe but need special and intensive care for at least 1 week in order to make sure they didn’t catch any unknown viruses or diseases. Apparently they had arranged for the whole group of them to go and watch the World Cup Final but doctors said that would be too risky and too soon.

Oh well...don't tell them the result and they can watch on catch-up.

WAC that Musk is

Absolutely fantastic news with all thirteen out and safe!

I don't think the coach will get too hard a time from the Thai public, police, etc.  I hope not, anyway.  They life a different way of life out there in the Far East to us Westerners.

Something we should learn from!

They allowed Musk to go into cave 3. His fecking response is that the leader of the rescue mission doesn't know his job. This is exactly where people should say 'Go back to where you came from'.

i hope they go easy on the coach as a nation, in fairness he refused to eat any of the small bit of food the boys had when they entered the cave

Ive never much liked Musk but I think he's got a bit of bad press on this.
The reason I think this is because the rescue of those kids didnt exactly play out how the early reporting told us.

Ive seen cut clips of the kids in scuba gear getting acclimatised with going under the water, and seen animated clips of how the mission was being handled with the child free 'swimming' between 2 divers connected to a rope and holding the kid's Oxygen tank.

Well it turns out thats not how it happened.
What it looks like they did was give the kids the idea they were going to do something like that, then they knocked em out with drugs, strapped em into a coffin like structure with breathing apparatus and then carefully led the device through with the kids being unconscious.

A clever trick really, and not actually far from Musk's idea at all.

The rescue mission however it was carried out, was miraculous. All the quotes I've heard from those involved said how dangerous and unlikely it was.

Ramruma 03 Jul 18 11:37 Joined: 11 Dec 02 | Topic/replies: 10,127 | Blogger: Ramruma's blog
If they are worried about panic then rather than teaching the kids to dive, it might be easier and quicker to knock them out and transport them one at a time unconscious in an oxygenated "coffin".

I haven't been following this very closely but according to The Times yesterday, they were heavily sedated and put on a sled with a full face oxygen mask on.

What an utter dispicable man  Musk is.

I hope the British diver sues Musk for every cent he's got.