The Elon Musk SpaceX mini-sub and the Wing Inflatable rescue pods were not used.
Chiang Rai Gov. Narongsak Osotthanakorn, the head of the rescue efforts, said the equipment brought to help was not practical with their mission.
UPDATE- Elon Musk indicated that Chiang Rai Gov. Narongsak Osotthanakorn was not leading the rescue teams. Elon Musk was working with the co-leader who did ask for the mini-sub as an option for the smallest boy.
Two divers were assigned to each person to be rescued. Air tanks were pre-positioned along the route. After each batch of 4 or 5 people were taken out, air tanks along the route were replenished.
The mini-sub and rescue pods may end up being adapted as escape pods for space and the may get adapted as emergency equipment for over-turned cruise ships or ferries.
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Great news. Even if this became some kind of media circus, it is good that it ended well. And curiously, it also re-ignited the discussion about the need of escape pods/capsules for the upcoming manned commercial rockets. If you don’t have a space suit and a working airlock, you simply can’t be extracted in an emergency from a failing rocket, and any feasible passenger scheme simply can’t have that many suits onboard. Even a plastic bag with a pressurized breathable gas tank and CO2 absorber would be OK, in case of emergency evacuation.
Great news. Even if this became some kind of media circus it is good that it ended well.And curiously it also re-ignited the discussion about the need of escape pods/capsules for the upcoming manned commercial rockets.If you don’t have a space suit and a working airlock you simply can’t be extracted in an emergency from a failing rocket and any feasible passenger scheme simply can’t have that many suits onboard.Even a plastic bag with a pressurized breathable gas tank and CO2 absorber would be OK in case of emergency evacuation.
Great news. Even if this became some kind of media circus, it is good that it ended well.
And curiously, it also re-ignited the discussion about the need of escape pods/capsules for the upcoming manned commercial rockets.
If you don’t have a space suit and a working airlock, you simply can’t be extracted in an emergency from a failing rocket, and any feasible passenger scheme simply can’t have that many suits onboard.
Even a plastic bag with a pressurized breathable gas tank and CO2 absorber would be OK, in case of emergency evacuation.