Elon Musk Has Built A Mini-Submarine To Save Kids Stranded In A Flooded Cave
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 8, 2018
Tesla boss Elon Musk has reminded the world of his more philanthropic side with an amazing offer to help the young Thai football team currently stranded in a cave in Thailand.
Musk has designed a miniature submarine fit for a single person to slot into, with its own oxygen supply, that can be manoeuvred by two divers through the flooded maze of hazardous rocks that has already claimed the life of one rescuer.
Just returned from Cave 3. Mini-sub is ready if needed. It is made of rocket parts & named Wild Boar after kids’ soccer team. Leaving here in case it may be useful in the future. Thailand is so beautiful. pic.twitter.com/EHNh8ydaTT
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 9, 2018
The sub, named Wild Boar after the football team itself, is made of rocket parts used in the SpaceX programme. It’s light enough to be carried by two divers, but “extremely robust.”
Teams tested the design in a Los Angeles high school’s swimming pool before Musk himself flew it out to Thailand to deliver it to the rescue teams. It’s not yet clear whether it’s going to be used to save any of the poor lads still stuck inside the cave, but in a tweet he said that he was leaving the Wild Boar there in case it’s needed in future.
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Now all he needs to do is build something to save Tesla
All things aside, I just wish all the survivors of the incident can go back home safely.
Such a crazy story isn’t it
Well,I hope they made it out safely…. But the enigma here is how did they survive inside of the cave
Certainly there are some parts of Musk we can rag him on, be we cannot deny that he and his team are capable of quite a few things.
Rescue divers opted not to use the device. But Musk left it there for future rescue attempts.
The soccer team was from irelans
they’re all safe now!
that’s not claustrophobic at all
Sounds pretty cool, but I hope he doesn’t think he can produce it in time to save the kids in the cave. That would be wishful thinking even by his standards