Musk sorry for tweet calling rescuer ‘pedo’
Team play football yesterday before press conference MEMBERS of the Thai football team miraculously rescued from flooded caves have apologised to their parents for not telling them they were planning the trip.
The 12 boys and their coach were speaking publicly for the first time since they were plucked to safety.
One player said: “I’d like to say sorry because I didn’t tell them I was going to go into the cave. I only told them I was going to play football.”
Another said: “I put a torch in my bag because if I told them I was going to the cave I would not have been able to go in.”
One of the lads said he expects a telling off and thinks he deserves it.
Their coach Ekkapol Chantawong,
revealed they made the plans on Facebook for the “educational visit” into the caves after footie practice.
The team, who said they tried to dig their way out, laughed when an interviewer asked if they thought they had “dug their way to England” after they heard the voices of the British divers who found them.
At the press conference yesterday Adul Sam-on, 14, described being discovered as “magical”.
The youngest of the Wild Boars team, 11-year-old Titan said: “I was weak and I was hungry.”
The lads had only cave water to drink. They lost an average of almost 9lb in weight during the ordeal. They are finally Lads after hospital released them going home after getting the all-clear from medics.
Doctors released the boys from hospital a day early yesterday after they each gained around 7lb.
The lads, all in team kit, had a kick25, about before the media conference in Chiang Rai, north Thailand.
They had only planned to be in the Tham Luang caves for an hour but were trapped by rising floodwater. They were discovered by the divers 10 days after vanishing. Food and other supplies were then taken in.
No other exit was found so bosses of the international rescue bid took the risky decision of diving the boys out of the network of flooded caves.
The last rescue was 18 days after the ordeal began. All 13 survived but a diver died on the way back from laying oxygen tanks in the tunnels.
BRAVE Boys huddled in cave ELON Musk has apologised to British cave rescuer Vern Unsworth after the US billionaire called him a “pedo” on Twitter.
Mr Unsworth, however, is still considering legal action after he was left “astonished and very angry” about the slur. Experts said he could win substantial libel damages.
Musk said he had “spoken in anger” in a now-deleted tweet, causing public outrage.
He hit back after the caver labelled a “kid-size” minisubmarine sent by Musk to aid the rescue “a PR stunt”. The Tesla tycoon said: “My words were spoken in anger after Mr Unsworth said several untruths and suggested I engage in a sexual act with the mini-sub, which had been built as an act of kindness and according to specifications from the dive team leader.
“His actions against me do not justify my actions against him and for that, I apologise... the fault is mine and mine alone.”
Investors in Musk’s companies had ordered the entrepreneur to apologise after stock prices slumped over the controversy.