A scoutmaster who has inadvertently lead his scouts into a cave that is filling with water and there is no way out except a narrow opening that the large scoutmaster has gotten himself stuck in.

Paramedics have arrived and cannot extract the scoutmaster from the opening of the cave and the scouts are now in grave peril. The only option left open to the paramedics is to sacrifice the scoutmaster. What are the correct actions and answers to the pertinent questions in this scenario?