Elon Emails

'On background' follow-up to BuzzFeed on the mini-sub

From:
Elon Musk
Date:
August 30, 2018
To:
Ryan Mac (BuzzFeed News)
Subject:
Fwd: Letters
On background Unsworth also said I was asked to leave by the Thai govt, which is utterly false. Thai Prime Minister thanked me personally per attached docs. I went all the way to area 3 with the Thai SEAL team, who were awesome. Never saw Unsworth at any point. Was told he was banned from the site. It is also total bs that the mini-sub wouldn't fit through the caves. It was designed and built to specifications provided to me directly by Stanton and the actual dive team. The only reason it wasn't used was that they were able to drain almost all the water out of the caves, so the underwater portion was very short, and the monsoon arrived later than expected. Those pumps were critical. Some of the Tesla team helped with electrical power, but major credit to whoever provided those pumps. They were amazing. I'm told they were from some company in India.

About this email

In a second email marked 'On background', Musk disputes Unsworth's claims that he was asked to leave the cave site and that the mini-submarine would not have fit, and credits the pumps that drained the cave.

Notes

Sent Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 7:16 PM, forwarding letters from Thai officials. BuzzFeed said it had not agreed to 'on background' terms either.

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Published by recipient; attribution confirmed.

Personal, press & journalists. Tags: unsworth-case, thai-cave-rescue, mini-sub, buzzfeed