Rescuers sourced the smallest scuba mask they could find – but had to make it even smaller. “There were way too many unknowns,” said Rasmussen.Ĭhanin Wiboonrungrueng, nicknamed Titan, 11, the youngest of the group was the focus of most concern. However, the rescuers were wracked with anxiety. “They were like, ‘oh wow, I’m going to go diving’,” he said.
Inside the cave on Sunday morning, unaware of the dangers ahead, the boys were excited, says Changkwanyuen. “We thought, this is going to be the best option we’re going to get.” “We had enough people to run the teams, the environment was right, we had a window with the weather,” said Rasmussen. When it didn’t come, rescuers knew they had to go for it. Monsoon rain predicted for the morning of Saturday 7 July might have flooded the cave, making an extraction impossible. “It was like finding a needle in an ocean,” said Youkongkaew. Engineers could not figure out where to drill. “It is very likely that infections would have started setting in, and the boys would have deteriorated a lot faster than they already were,” said Rasmussen.Īnother plan, to drill approximately 600 metres into the boys’ chamber from the thicket of jungle above, was also foundering. Preventing disease in the dank environment would also have become increasingly difficult. What would we do if the oxygen kept decreasing?” “That made us worry a lot,” Apakorn Youkongkaew, a rear admiral in the Thai navy, said.
Rescuers had to carry, pull and swim the boys through more than two miles of tunnels.
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