\u201cRick [Stanton, lead diver] had been in touch with me in the preceding days and at one point had said to me, \u2018Do you think it would be possible to sedate the kids to bring them out?\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cAs an anaesthetist my initial response was absolutely not, it\u2019s impossible and without question would end in the death of the boys if we tried that.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut when I did get there and I realised in fact there was no other plan and if we didn\u2019t do something they would almost certainly die — or in fact we were 100 per cent sure they would die — then really it was the best of all the terrible plans that we had. We had to try something.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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