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BBC Beyond Today - Thai cave rescue: what really happened?

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mikem

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Vern Unsworth & the BBC?s South East Asia correspondent, Jonathan Head interviewed (21 mins).
 
Tommy

Tommy

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yrammy said:
Can this be downloaded?
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It may be possible with this extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/iplayer_get/

I don't use firefox though so can't test it.
 
rhychydwr1

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. 
 
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complex

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If you click through to the programme page (https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07dhjph) there is a download button.
 
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Fulk

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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:
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. 
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There was one in Mexico before my time http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3563195.stm
 
Antwan

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
 
Pitlamp

Pitlamp

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andybrooks said:
Also trapped for more than a week, Dr. Alfred Bogli and three students in the Holloch, 1952.
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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").
 
AR

AR

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Fulk said:
(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.)
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What, the cannibalism-in-the-dark diet? :eek:
 
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