FTA: “This was to ensure that if he did wake up from his ketamine slumber, he wouldn’t try to rip off his face mask, endangering both his life and that of his rescuer," Cochrane writes.
Cave diving is extremely dangerous. There should be no criticism about how the rescuers chose to go about it.
Agreed, they got it done. That's all that counts. They're heroes.
this article reads like a condemnation, but it looks like the decisions were made to maximize the likelihood of successful live extraction. And those decisions were made by experts under the gun. So I feel like the article is criticizing without accepting the reality of the situation.
I guess I don't understand why they would freak out while being rescued.
Scuba diving takes training, it's not like breathing normal air. Add the possibility for claustrophobia and darkness fear. There is a very high possibility for irrational behavior.