Elon Musk hoping the boys from Thailand who were imprisoned in the cave

Although more than a thousand Thai military experts and soldiers, divers and specialists from other countries are involved in the rescue operation, it is not necessary to have a lifeguard. There is still no way to get the kids out. The divers were able to get to the room where the victims are currently present. They received food and blankets. In trying to deliver oxygen to them, a former Thai Navy member has died today. The road to reach the children is very difficult – they are located about 4.5 km from the exit and separated by several flooded tunnels. Some of them are so narrow that you can not swim with a dive tank. Some children can not swim, and in extreme conditions learning to use scuba diving is also difficult. Below you can watch the video of the first meeting of divers with boys trapped in the cave:

Elon Musk also volunteered to participate in the rescue operation. On Saturday, he personally leaves with specialists from SpaceX and The Boring Company at the scene of the accident to find a way out of the situation. However, he already has some ideas that could facilitate the evacuation of children. First, the billionaire can use his advanced penetration radar, which has worked well in tunnels digging for a new underground transport system. The Boring Company is without a doubt the best candidates for drilling the hole that they could be trapped. However, shocks can be too risky.

Another option is to pump water from the caves. All the time, the emergency services try to limit the number of water, but the time is useless. In Thailand, the monsoon season begins and the first showers are to hit this weekend. Elon Musk can equip the branches with more efficient pumps and, most importantly, provide them with energy from the batteries produced by Tesla, but the solution may not be effective enough.

Perhaps useful: insert a 1m diameter nylon tube. tubes for the most difficult sections) through the network of caves and inflate with air like an inflatable castle.

– Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 6, 2018

Musk suggested one more idea on his Twitter, derived from the SpaceX experiment. It is a nylon pipe of a diameter of about 1 meter or a set of such pipes that would be under water. Such a fortune tunnel filled with air would be able to adapt to the shape of caverns even with a smaller section. Thus, the evacuation can be done effectively without teaching the children to dive.

On June 23, after completing the football training, club members rode a bicycle and had a picnic in a nearby cave. When teenagers and guardians did not return home, the search campaign began. The boys were found by British and Thai divers after nine days of research. In the worst of conditions, there is now a 25-year-old coach, Ekkapol Chantawong, who has distributed all the food and water among the boys himself by refusing to eat. A young man who is a former monk, he also thought of teaching children to meditate by limiting the movement and consumption of oxygen. Due to the approach of the monsoons, a scenario was predicted in which the children would stay in the cave for several months until the water calmed down. It remains to be hoped that the ideas of Elon Muska will allow a faster evacuation. | CHIP