BBC Beyond Today - Thai cave rescue: what really happened?
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rhychydwr1
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This not the first cave rescue where people have been trapped for more than a week in a cave. In 1894 seven cavers where trapped underground for a week by a flash flood in the Lurgrotte in Austria.
andybrooks
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Also trapped for more than a week, Dr. Alfred Bogli and three students in the Holloch, 1952.
I know we're getting a bit off-topic, but I can't now remember the details, but some time ago a couple of cavers were lost in the States for something like 10 days, without food or light, before they were missed; they survived, emaciated, as you may imagine! (Now there's an idea for a new diet . . . just take people into a cave and leave them there with water but no food or light.)
alastairgott
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rhychydwr1 said:
There was one in Mexico before my time http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3563195.stm
Antwan
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Strange hearing Jonathan Heads voice again, I spoke to him a few times on the phone and even though I couldn't tell him anything useful, I was relying mainly on the news and twitter channels, he took the time to call me to let me know the boys had been found about a minute before he went live on BBC news 24.
Brought back the same emotions from that day when I was making my lunch to take to work moments before a mini social media tidal wave
Brought back the same emotions from that day when I was making my lunch to take to work moments before a mini social media tidal wave
Pitlamp
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andybrooks said:
Ref: Life And Death Underground, 1963, (James Lovelock) - chapter 9, especially pages 86-88.
There is also a photo between pages 112 & 113 of someone floating on a dinghy with a plank of wood and some earphones on and some wires draped over him. I always wondered exactly what he was doing (despite the caption suggesting he is a Swiss police sergeant who "sounds the flood water").
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