[Texascavers] Book Review: Aquanaut

[William R. Elliott]

*Book Review: **Aquanaut*

*The Inside Story of the Thai Cave Rescue: A Life Beneath the Surface *

By Rick Stanton with Karen Dealy, 2021

Michael Joseph/Penguin, Random House, UK

$22.49 hardback, $18.95 paperback, at Amazon.com and other bookstores



Cavers should read this exciting book about the rescue of 13 stranded
soccer kids from the flooded Tham Luong cave, Thailand. *Rick Stanton *served
for years as a firefighter, but cave diving was his passion. He is one of
the top cave divers in the world, known for his careful, but daring
explorations of the tough, deep caves of the UK and Europe. He was an
outstanding rescuer, both at work and in caves. He was retired for four
years when he got a call in 2018, asking him and others to come to
Thailand.



The book is a review of Rick’s major dives through the years, interwoven
with a detailed account of the Thai rescue. In a way his whole diving
career was preparation for the most daunting cave diving rescue ever. The
alternative, advocated by some officials, was to let them live in a
threatening environment for months, which probably would have killed them
all. Their team brought the children out one at a time by sedating them
with ketamine, administered by hero-diver Dr. Richard Harris and the
divers. Each diver swam a single child out, each child wearing a full-face
respirator and breathing 75% oxygen. The exit was highly choreographed,
with segments of dry cave utilizing stretchers and pre-arranged divers. No
one had ever given ketamine to cave victims before, and it worked!



Even if you don’t like cave diving, you will like this book!!



*Bill Elliott, 20 July 2022*
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Re: [Texascavers] Lost contact address

[Charles Loving]

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On Tue, Jul 19, 2022 at 10:55 PM Katherine Arens 
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> A caver of the female persuasion offered a couple of years ago to help
> with the formatting/typesetting of william russell's book. Had an email
> meltdown, lost all data on that and my brain is asleep.  If it was you, let
> me know
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> thanks, and apologies
> katie
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> Katherine Arens, ProfessorPhones: Office(512) 232-6363
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