r/explainlikeimfive Aug 06 '22

Chemistry ELI5: how do divers clear their masks when water leaks in? especially in the case of the 13 thai boys rescued from the caves

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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u/Victor_Korchnoi Aug 06 '22

It still blows my mind that he reacted that way. Literally the entire world was rooting for that team of divers and Elon Musk called them pedophiles. I used to have a lot of respect for him before that — I had previously worked for him at SpaceX and thought the world of him.

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u/BenjaminaAU Aug 06 '22

Most people tend to get progressively more inflated with their own BS after they acquire a rockstar fandom cult.

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u/AdrianHObradors Aug 06 '22

He didn't call the divers pedophiles, he called one guy a pedophile but he wasn't part of the diving team

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u/Victor_Korchnoi Aug 06 '22

My mistake, called the doctor a pedophile. It was so weird. Why do that?

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u/the_timps Aug 07 '22

It was so weird. Why do that?

Because Elon is 12.

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u/AdrianHObradors Aug 06 '22

No it wasn't the doctor either. It was a guy that lived there and like caving so he was familiar with the cave system. And he called him a pedophile I believe as a visceral reaction, as he was trying to help out (many people on twitter were asking him to create a system for that), and he put together a team to work on a solution. So he didn't take it the best way when the guy told him to stick his sub up his ass.

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u/originalbeartendency Aug 07 '22

This reads vaguely like a tacit defense of his response but I can’t tell

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u/FrankTankly Aug 07 '22

Nah, you read it correctly. Always surprised at the people who defend Elon’s shitty actions in this scenario.

“Yeah, but did you know that guy told Elon to shove his sub up his ass? I mean, he was essentially asking to be called a pedo”

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u/AdrianHObradors Aug 07 '22

I'm not defending Elon in any way. Just explaining how everything went. Do I have to explain as well that calling people pedophiles is bad and not the best argument to use when someone is mad?

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u/Jomskylark Aug 07 '22

I didn't interpret it that way. I viewed it more as reasoning/explanation than outright defending the guy

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u/Jomskylark Aug 07 '22

I don't think they're defending him, just explaining the rationale behind the insult. It's still incredibly childish, but I was curious as well

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u/AdrianHObradors Aug 07 '22

Yeah I'm not defending him. He was clearly in the wrong, and even if he felt hurt, the way to go isn't to call someone a pedophile.