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by ofrzeta 2897 days ago
It's obvious from the pictures of the submarine. When the press reports state that the cave is so narrow in places that you need to take off the scuba to get through, obviously the submarine that has a bigger diameter than a diver with a scuba won't pass.
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antris 2897 days ago
Again. This armchair analysis cannot decide whether a solution is fit for the job or not. You don't know everything that's happening at the site.
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ofrzeta 2897 days ago
This is bollocks. "In narrow sections, rescuers will have to take off their air tanks and squeeze the boys and the tanks through". https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/660/cpsprodpb/25F2/production/...
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mehrdadn 2897 days ago
> This is bollocks. "In narrow sections, rescuers will have to take off their air tanks and squeeze the boys and the tanks through". https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/660/cpsprodpb/25F2/production/....

Do you see that diagram says "gap approx 40 cm"? Do you see that I already told you they deliberately designed their submarine to be 31 cm in diameter? Do you see that there's a chance that the oxygen tanks and their human chest combined are indeed more than 31 cm, and hence having to take them off might not say anything about whether a 31 cm tube will fit?

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ofrzeta 2897 days ago
I can see that but I can also see that there's an air tank mounted on the outside of the submarine. This could probably be taken off while passing the narrow passage.

On the other hand you would need to squeeze a person in that submarine over the whole diving range. That would probably not help feeling them more comfortable.

Last not least in article you will find the quote "'The equipment he gave us is not practical for our mission,' Narongsak said Tuesday morning", that might prove my point.

Finally I don't get why you are arguing that the submarine is such a great idea when it's clearly not.

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mehrdadn 2897 days ago
> This could probably be taken off while passing the narrow passage.

> That would probably not help feeling them more comfortable.

> that might prove my point.

All this doubt in your assessment and all of a sudden you deduce their plan is "bollocks"?

> I don't get why you are arguing that the submarine is such a great idea

Where did I argue a submarine is a great idea? Why must something either be "bollocks" or "a great idea"?

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