Blackout/Whiteout conditions

On today’s episode, you’ll hear that in order to leave the caves where the Thai soccer team was trapped, the boys had to dive through blackout conditions. In blackout conditions, you can’t see anything because of the darkness. In this case, the caves were dark, but the water was muddy, so they couldn’t see ahead of them even with a flashlight. Whiteout conditions are the same—except it’s usually used to describe a snowstorm. If you’re driving and encounter heavy snow, you’re driving in whiteout conditions if you can’t see ahead of you due to the snow.