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Visual Writing Prompt #79
Five Of Seven People Trapped In Laos Cave Found Alive, Rescuers Say
Rescue teams in Laos have found five of the seven people who became trapped inside a flooded cave system alive after an intensive search operation, authorities confirmed on Tuesday. The group had reportedly entered the cave during heavy rainfall before rising water levels cut off their exit route. According to local emergency officials, rescuers located the survivors deep inside the cave after…
Warp Riders!
Chapter 21
Both headlamps swept to the far end of the cave, where an enormous fountain of water was pushing up from the floor.
“Shit–”
“RIGHT NOW, get off the floor!”
Faster than the captain had expected, the Navigatrix leapt over to the nearest stack of ruins, and started climbing up.
The water had coalesced into a roiling wave, growing taller as it pushed down the cave towards them. The Captain bit her lip as she watched her crewmate drag herself and a significant weight of equipment up steeper and steeper slopes of bricks. The noise was filling the air – and then the water was right beneath her, rising much too fast, and the Captain could only yell as it snagged her legs and started pulling her away from the tower – and then there was a POP! – somehow audible over the rush of the waves – and the liferaft had inflated.
The Captain couldn’t watch any further, though, as the pillar of blocks she was sitting on was hit by the torrent and the shock nearly knocked her off again; she was out flat on her side, arms akimbo, breathing with relief, when the water bubbled up to touch her dangling feet, and then some further thrust of the tide pushed a wave right over the top and knocked her back in the drink.
It was worse this time – her knee was screaming as she tried to kick to the surface, and there was a brutally strong undertow dragging her deeper into the black water, clogged with silt and bubbles – and then she was pushed up to the surface again and knocked against stone.
It took out her headlamp, but mercifully not her skull, and she had the wherewithal to find an edge to hold on to as the water swept her up and down, back and forth, in a now very dark cave. Where was the Navigatrix? Where was the raft? Was the Captain getting them both killed?
She thought she saw a flicker of a yellow headlamp beam, as the water started to calm and the roar of the tide in the cave started to quiet.
“Nav!”
And, oh, what a relief, to hear in return,
“Captain! My light’s out, keep shouting and I’ll find you.”
So the Captain called “Marco!” and the Navigatrix called back “Polo!” and made a symphony of splashing noises, and the water finally calmed down, and then the squeaky rubber of the life raft bumped against the Captain’s outstretched arm, and an invisible Navigatrix pulled her up.
And for a second, or a minute, or ten, they lay on the bottom of the life raft gasping and breathing and then laughing. It wasn’t the first or the last time they were going to pull a stunt like that, and they both knew it.
“You fucking daredevil idiot,” the Captain wheezed, and the Navigatrix punched her in the arm, or near the arm,
“At least this idiot brought basic equipment with them into the cave!”
– and then they both dissolved into laughter and snorts and gasps until finally, the mania passed, and the Captain felt the Navigatrix sit up again.
BANGKOK | Thailand's cave boys centerpiece of mall exhibition
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BANGKOK | Thailand's cave boys centerpiece of mall exhibition
BANGKOK — It’s showtime for the 12 boys and their 25-year old soccer coach whose ordeal of being trapped for almost three weeks in a flooded cave in northern Thailand riveted the world.
The members of the Wild Boars soccer team spoke Thursday at an exhibition about their ordeal at one of Bangkok’s largest shopping malls. It features a reproduction of the cave that includes simulated sounds of water dripping and also showcases equipment used by rescuers and other memorabilia.
Psychologists had counseled that the boys after their rescue in July should be given a six-month respite from being pressed to recount their experience. But Thailand’s military government, eager to share the glory of the good-news story, has trotted them out for public appearances and interviews.
By Associated Press
CHIANG RAI, Thailand | After rescue, Thai soccer boys pray for fortune at temple
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CHIANG RAI, Thailand | After rescue, Thai soccer boys pray for fortune at temple
CHIANG RAI, Thailand— The Thai soccer boys and their coach have attended a Buddhist ceremony to protect them against misfortunes, a day after they were discharged from a hospital following their rescue from a flooded cave.
The 11 boys and the coach sat and put their hands together to the tune of chanting monks. They were joined by relatives and friends. The remaining team member is reportedly a Muslim.
The ceremony is meant to extend one’s life and protect it from dangers.
On Wednesday, the boys and coach faced the media for the first time since their ordeal, describing their shock at seeing the British divers who found them after they went missing for almost 10 days. It would be another week before they were pulled out of the cave.
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By Associated Press
CHIANG RAI, Thailand | After rescue, Thai soccer boys pray for fortune at temple
New Post has been published on https://is.gd/JfRtW0
CHIANG RAI, Thailand | After rescue, Thai soccer boys pray for fortune at temple
CHIANG RAI, Thailand— The Thai soccer boys and their coach have attended a Buddhist ceremony to protect them against misfortunes, a day after they were discharged from a hospital following their rescue from a flooded cave.
The 11 boys and the coach sat and put their hands together to the tune of chanting monks. They were joined by relatives and friends. The remaining team member is reportedly a Muslim.
The ceremony is meant to extend one’s life and protect it from dangers.
On Wednesday, the boys and coach faced the media for the first time since their ordeal, describing their shock at seeing the British divers who found them after they went missing for almost 10 days. It would be another week before they were pulled out of the cave.
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By Associated Press
CHIANG RAI, Thailand | After rescue, Thai soccer boys pray for fortune at temple
New Post has been published on https://is.gd/JfRtW0
CHIANG RAI, Thailand | After rescue, Thai soccer boys pray for fortune at temple
CHIANG RAI, Thailand— The Thai soccer boys and their coach have attended a Buddhist ceremony to protect them against misfortunes, a day after they were discharged from a hospital following their rescue from a flooded cave.
The 11 boys and the coach sat and put their hands together to the tune of chanting monks. They were joined by relatives and friends. The remaining team member is reportedly a Muslim.
The ceremony is meant to extend one’s life and protect it from dangers.
On Wednesday, the boys and coach faced the media for the first time since their ordeal, describing their shock at seeing the British divers who found them after they went missing for almost 10 days. It would be another week before they were pulled out of the cave.
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By Associated Press