ELON MUSK TO THE RESCUE! US Business Magnate Is Building a Kid Mini-Sub to Rescue Thai Soccer Boys Trapped in Tham Luang Cave

Calling it a submarine just confuses the issue by making it sound like a fantasy. It has no motor, fins, etc.

It's basically a rescue pod, a sort of watertight stretcher with its own air supply that can hold one boy and be towed by ropes and experienced divers.

I think it is the best and safest idea so far, and I think it will work.

Remember it only has to hold one skinny Thai boy at a time, so it is smaller than a Western diver in full scuba gear.

Pure grandstanding.

Meanwhile, expert divers, special forces, first responders have begun the extraction just hours ago, and we will likely see the first lot surface today.

And when Musk finally finiGoat Lovers mini-sub 3 months later and $50 million over budget - replete with shark eyes at the front shooting laser beams, and an exhaust that shoots like really cool flames that burn underwater - we can all go ...er...yeah. Cool.

At least he's trying to contribute and do something constructive.

You're just being an ass.

he is just saying he's going to build something so he can show up there and get a photo op and his name out when the boys start to appear from the rescue efforts of the true professionals.

Well if that place floods out with this new rain pouring in, this is going to be the goto option.

Agreed. There is more rain forecast and the officials there say it would take 3 - 4 days to do it this way, while the water is low.

Musk is donating this assistance at his expense. Good on him and if he gets publicity, fine with me.

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Sooooo proud of this man. Yippee Kay yay!!

You anti Musk posters really just need to quit ... nobody is buying your BS.

Dumb ass Shorts.

Extremely talented dive team. Makes sense given monsoon. Godspeed.

@elonmusk

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...and yet still doing as much as Elon Musk to rescue them - without the publicity whoring.

What do you suggest? A secret mission?

And what have you contributed to the effort?

I suggest letting the rescue team do it's job.

There, I've done as much as Elon Musk.

yep so many angry jealous people who failed life
are only happy when others fail. How miserable.
Good thing they do not hold back the winners
or we would still be cave men.

If it starts raining again and the water rises in the cave as they expect it would to the point where a swim rescue is impossible, Elon Musk's team may become the rescue team.

Or, we're just pointing out the Fake News Elon Musk jock sniffing fanboys are posting and noting that NO, Elon Musk is NOT 'to the rescue' of the Thai soccer team.

...and if aliens land in Thailand with technologically advanced underwater rescue gear they may become the rescue team.

Wow. Check this out.

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I thought Leon Skum was a banker/investor?

He went to Wharton where he received a MBA but never completed his Ph.D at Stanford.

You're an angry little pussy aren't you? Every comment you post is a pathetic attempt to double down, we all see you little guy, it's ok, you're important.

A California inflatable boat company made custom life pods (those 'kid-sized submarines') for Elon Musk for the Thailand cave rescue; could be the basis for future cave rescue tech.

ARCATA – When SpaceX’s Elon Musk calls with an emergency plan to save a dozen children trapped in a flooded cave, even at 6 a.m., you don’t let it go to voicemail.

Andrew Branagh certainly didn’t last Friday morning, and that's how the CEO of Arcata-based Wing Inflatables suddenly found himself and his company engulfed in an unprecedented day-long effort to invent, build, test and ship potentially life-saving “pods” to northern Thailand.

Musk’s initial concept of a rescue tube needed some refinement, and with its long experience in inflatable watercraft, Wing was ideally suited to the task.

“We came up with our own idea,” Branagh said. That was for a submersible “torpedo,” into which a person could be placed along with an air tank and breathing apparatus. The person could then be towed by the front and back, and be guided through the cave’s jagged passages.

With Monsoon rains impending and no time to waste, Wing swung into action.

The company’s engineers undertook an unprecedented, fast-track parallel design effort, sketching their ideas on paper while entering design data into a computer CAD program. From there, the design went to the factory floor for cutting and assembly.

A full one-third of the Wing work force, located at the old California Barrel Factory building on Samoa Boulevard, was pulled in on the process, including some 30 employees and the company’s entire management and leadership.

This reduced the factory’s usual work output by half, but with lives at stake and an emergency engineering solution to create, that wasn’t an issue. “It’s not gonna matter what this costs,” Branagh said. “Let’s do this thing.”

Working with focused urgency, by 9:30 a.m. Friday morning, the Wing team was prototyping its concept. “There’s risk involved in making it fast,” Branagh said. But there were no throwaway or defective units; no redesigns or re-do’s.

Meanwhile, the Wing CEO had spoken on a conference call with Musk and his engineering staff. “He was very direct and clear on supporting getting a solution in place,” Branagh said.

At 5:15 p.m., Musk’s jet arrived at ACV, where the Wing team loaded five of the pods on board for transport to Thailand. Eight more flew out Saturday morning at 8 a.m.

[link to madriverunion.com]

Wah

Granstanding? Musk has made no public announcement regarding the above, which he paid for, including his Gulfstream G650 to fly the equipment to Thailand.