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It Is Not Dying.

To hell with Trump. To hell with Congress. To hell with Supreme Courts.

Time for a reason for tomorrow.

1. Many of the rescued Thai boys did not know how to swim and were given anti-anxiety medications before being helped out by divers.

2. It took 11 hours for a diver to make the five-mile round trip to reach the boys.

3. All the while, hundreds of gallons of water were being pumped out of the cave — the equivalent of 48 Olympic-sized swimming pools in a 75-hour period. In an effort to stop the flooding, authorities also dammed streams that flowed into the caves. Natural shafts that dumped water into the caves were also plugged.

4. Divers used “Heyphones,” a 20-year-old technology, to communicate with the rescue base. The ultra-low frequency transmitters are able to penetrate through rock and send divers’ locations and messages.

5. Approximately 90 divers were involved in the rescue. About 50 were foreigners.

6. Rescuers transferred about 100 oxygen tanks to the cave to help improve the air supply. Thai diver PO Saman Gunan had been helping transfer the tanks when he got into difficulties on the way back and did not have enough air himself. He died after losing consciousness in one of the passageways and his colleagues could not revive him.Image result for po saman

Graphic: How boys were carried through the caves