The 'Made in India' product that helped in the Thai cave rescue

We've all heard about the heroic efforts of Australian divers Dr Richard Harris and Craig Challen who helped save 12 boys and their football coach from the flooded Thai cave, but little is known about an Indian company that played an important role in the rescue mission.

Thai rescue teams arrange water pumping system at the entrance to a flooded cave complex where 12 boys and their soccer coach have been trapped. Source: AAP Image/Royal Thai Navy via AP, File

India-based company, Kirloskar Brothers’ Limited, provided technical support in the delicate operation to rescue the teenage football team trapped inside a cave in Thailand.

The pump manufacturing company is reported to have vast expertise in pumping out floodwater.  It's ‘dewatering’ pumps were used in the rescue operation on the recommendation of the Indian Embassy to Thai authorities.

The Thai boys during their cave ordeal. Source: AAP

The company sent teams from its offices in India, Thailand and the United Kingdom to the site.

Kirloskar’s experts had been on site at the cave in Tham Luang since July 5 and offered "technical know-how and advice on dewatering and pumps involved in the rescue operation," according to a KBL release.

The company had also offered to provide four specialised high capacity dewatering pumps, which were kept ready at the Kirloskarvadi plant in Maharashtra to be airlifted to Thailand.

Their efforts were lauded by people closely following the rescue mission.

A total of 12 children, aged from 11 to 16, and their coach, ventured into the Tham Luang cave in mountainous northern Thailand on June 23 after football practice but became trapped when heavy rains caused flooding.

Tham Luang rescuees smiling on their hospital beds. Source: AAP

All of them were rescued safely after a massive international rescue mission.

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