DER6102 Disaster Preparedness and Mitigation | Thai Cave Disaster

The claims that Musk raised earlier during the critical cave operations in Thai came with a lot of ethical criticism. Musk wanted to gain fame and act as the person involved with the rescue mission during the incident. There were claims that the leader of SpaceX and Tesla CEO that he coordinated for the operation to take place. The cave was one big ordeal that gave the cave divers and o

The operations to rescue the entire football team were already underway which made it open to the public that the contributions of Elon Musk were nothing but the scam. The information that reached the public domain is that the CEO had been visiting the site to help rescue the victims, but that was not true. It, therefore, led to the rise of the issue of an ethical dilemma. On July 4, Musk communicated with the engineers to develop a better boat that could be used to rescue the children. In the end, it attracted both praise and criticism (Khazanchi and Owens 2018). The post that he had posted online claiming that he left mini-submarine meant to help in ferrying the group trapped in the cave during the mission. It was impossible for the submarine to go through the narrow opening that led to the cave in the case where water rose to levels that made it difficult even for the divers to navigate. It led to the death of one of the British cave diver in an attempt to rescue the football team (Collins 2018). The mission was to go to the cave and save the victims with a technology improvement to build sophisticated equipment and rendered it useless for the task. Musk later mailed the senior operator to make the machine to help in the incident immediately. The Chiang Rai caves Tham Luang was something that the Twitter followers wanted Musk to handle. Musk tried so much to handle the issue. He went to the extent of thinking of using the tube air to get into the cave. Then, Musk decided to convert the rocket for the SpaceX's company into a small submarine used in the process and the released the videos of its experiments in the ground. The conclusion of the whole is a plan to seek humanitarian act by the CEO of Tesla making the case to be mixed up with the issue of whether it is right to brag for the efforts he made on the problem or not (Brett 2019). To be fair with the case of Elon Musk is that the involvement that he had to the case was through the text message in twitter and nothing else. There are no other involvements that could validate the help the cave case, and thus the specialists such as Unsworth Vernon knew how hard it could have been to do so. It, therefore, portrays Musk as a false or hypocrite despite the efforts made by him and his company to resolve the problem.

References

Brett, J., 2019. Reflection Methods. In Evolving Digital Leadership (pp. 287-303). Apress, Berkeley,CA.

Collins, J.C., 2018. A more radical human resource development: the time is now. Human Resource Development International, pp.1-7.

Khazanchi, D. and Owens, D., 2018, January. From Strategic Intent to Implementation: How Information Technology initiatives take shape in organizations. In Proceedings of the 51st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.

Wang, X. and Gloor, P.A., 2018. Wuity as Higher Cognition Combining Intuitive and Deliberate Judgments for Creativity: Analyzing Elon Musk’s Way. Collaborative Innovation Networks: Building Adaptive and Resilient Organizations, p.165.