I see, I was probably not paying attention to the story at the time. I still find it odd that these summary articles after the fact seem to be ignoring the fact that one person died during the rescue attempt. I'd have expected more "heroic efforts on the part of Thai divers, including one who gave his life,..." kind of lines in the first three paragraphs.
Edit: the NYT online front page now mentions him, so maybe it was just a matter of scrambling out the news that the rescue was complete (though I'd have expected them to write that copy in advance).
Are you basing this merely on one NYT article you read announcing their rescue a week after a diver died?
I not only got notified by multiple newspapers on my phone, I later saw pictures and a video of the funeral completely surrounded by cameras, which I learn the Thai royalty entirely paid for.
No, I wasn't. You can see in my original one that I cited The Guardian's coverage that was original story as well as all the tweets they listed there (praising the rescue work - I'm completely shocked they weren't mentioning the dead rescue workers) which included summaries of the efforts highlighting Elon Musk's activities but not the dead diver's. Since I figured right-wing news agencies would be more likely to include a story about an ex-military agent dying in an attempt to save children, I also read Fox News's front-page article on the completion of the mission. Though the article covered Elon Musk's efforts in substantial depth (including graphics with annotations about where the sub would have the most difficulty), it didn't even mention the one casualty the operation had!
For the record, I didn't see any of this coverage a week ago but have already admitted that it happened and I'm sure it was extremely significant. I'm still surprised that he's not mentioned in every recap article's opening and wasn't praised by, for example, Trump and other celebrities reacting to the event.
Edit: the NYT online front page now mentions him, so maybe it was just a matter of scrambling out the news that the rescue was complete (though I'd have expected them to write that copy in advance).