I have just been watching Thirteen lives – the film about the cave rescue of the 13 young boys in Thailand who were totally sedated before being taken hours under water.
It got me thinking that when I go snorkelling i always get a bit of water leak into my mask and have to come up and clear it out so i don’t breath water in.
Is this something that happens to scuba divers, if so how do they deal with it, and in the case of the boys how would the divers accompanying them have cleared the boy’s masks ?
i would also like to say what an incredible job done by all those involved.
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IIRC they bound the mask onto each child’s head and hoped against hope that it wouldn’t be dislodged.
For anyone interested in this event there’s an excellent and detailed telling of the story in a 4-part podcast series called [Against The Odds](https://pca.st/episode/5d9fa0dd-cc11-415d-9cc3-161d5181162a). The podcast covers the activity in the cave and also what was going on above ground, with negotiations, competing views, etc. They follow it up with an additional episode dedicated to an interview with one of the British rescue divers.
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