Speaking of the incident in the cave, where meditation and a Buddhist coach helped the children survive (and ultimately, of course, the rescuers). I once read an interesting book by Alain Bombard, “Adrift by Choice”.
It starts with the fact that people who suffer shipwrecks die not from hunger or thirst, but from fear and loss of hope. 90%
of the victims die within the first three days, although a person can generally survive up to two weeks without water. So, this guy decided to row across the Atlantic in a lifeboat, and – he made it in 1952, in two months.
This is to say that being in a flooded cave is a problem of roughly the same magnitude. And the fact that the kids spent nine days there and survived is thanks largely to the coach. Though, the fact they ended up there at all is on them too.
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