Except the system they actually used, keeping the kids strapped to a stretcher, was not that far from the submarine idea. Just open, lighter-weight, and probabl

Except the system they actually used, keeping the kids strapped to a stretcher, was not that far from the submarine idea. Just open, lighter-weight, and probably a bit more flexible. But you still have a kid placed within a container that the divers transport through the cave. The main problem with the sub was that the rescue started earlier than expected, so there wasn't time to iterate. That isn't Musk's fault. I wouldn't be surprised if the idea to use the stretcher arose after the sub idea was mentioned. There's plenty to criticize Musk for (labor practices, hyping Autopilot recklessly), but it seems absurd to rewrite the events in Thailand in order to do so.