The US recovery operation that last Friday successfully retrieved the remains of the two Thai postgraduate students whose rented car plunged into Kings River in Fresno, California, on July 26 was the first of its kind and required almost 60 personnel and specialised equipment, including a purpose-built pulley.

AMERICAN rescuers have succeeded in retrieving the remains of two Thai postgraduate students from their car that plunged into a California river more than a month ago.