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Happy news.
Then why did it take them 9 days to rescue them?.
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The team may not be able to leave for another 4 months until monsoon season is over. Team is trapped about 1 mile from the cave entrance. Some of the boys cannot swim.
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They are NOT rescued yet.
It took nine days just to find them, in a cave, by international divers, that does not mean they are rescued, they need to be moved from the cave, while being submerged in water, to get out from the cave they are STILL trapped in.
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Sadly he is right.
Divers have found the 12 boys trapped in a cave network but may have to wait months for the end of the monsoon season to be freed
Medics reach boys trapped in Thai cave – as it happened | World news | The Guardian
With more rain coming, Thai rescuers are racing against time to pump out water from a flooded cave before they can extract 12 boys and their soccer coach with minimum risk, officials said Thursday.
A firefighter who has been working on draining the water said that levels in parts of a passage leading to a chamber where the boys and the coach were found on Monday after missing for nine days was still flooded all the way to the ceiling, making diving the only way out.
"What we worry most is the weather," Chiang Rai provincial Gov. Narongsak Osatanakorn told reporters. "We can't risk having the flood back into the cave."
Rescuers of youth soccer team race to drain water inside flooded Thai cave before rains return | CBC News
A firefighter who has been working on draining the water said that levels in parts of a passage leading to a chamber where the boys and the coach were found on Monday after missing for nine days was still flooded all the way to the ceiling, making diving the only way out.
"What we worry most is the weather," Chiang Rai provincial Gov. Narongsak Osatanakorn told reporters. "We can't risk having the flood back into the cave."
Rescuers of youth soccer team race to drain water inside flooded Thai cave before rains return | CBC News
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In other news, a Thai soccer coach was indicted today on charges of raping and molesting 12 young boys while trapped in a cave after unexpected flooding. When asked why he did it, he responded 'What else is there to do when trapped in a dark cave with 12 young boys in short pants and wet t-shirts? Besides, here in Thailand, everyone does it. What's the big whoop!?'
Jesus Demien, you sure like to give us good news all the time :shout:
The coach that brought them there is due for a lynching.
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Chiang Rai, Thailand (CNN)Pressure is mounting on Thai authorities to bring forward a rescue plan for 12 boys and their coach trapped deep inside a flooded cave in northern Thailand, after the death of a former navy diver and a drop in oxygen levels underground.
Officials initially thought they could keep the boys and their coach in the cave where they are trapped for up to four months, until waters dropped sufficiently for them to be able to walk out.
But the death of a rescue team member, and the realization that oxygen levels have fallen to potentially dangerous levels, appears to have forced a reassessment of the situation.
Thai Navy SEAL chief Rear Adm. Aphakorn Yoo-kongkaew said oxygen levels in the cave had dropped to 15%, a level that one Thai medic said posed a serious risk of hypoxia, the same condition that causes altitude sickness.
It was too dangerous to leave the boys much longer, Yoo-kongkaew said, despite the risks involved in attempting to bring them out.
"We can no longer wait for all conditions (to be ready) because of the oppressive situation," he told journalists Friday.
"We originally thought the young boys could stay safe inside the cave for quite a long time but circumstances have changed. We have limited amount of time."
He did not say how long they could survive with current oxygen levels, but he said getting more oxygen piped into the boys was top priority.
Scuba oxygen tanks being delivered to the cave rescue site on July 01, 2018.
Despite concerns, the boys are unlikely to be extracted within the next 24 hours because it was still too dangerous, according to a Thai Navy official who is not authorized to speak to the media.
One reason the team cannot yet be evacuated is that rescuers were also still searching for three more wetsuits with a thickness of five millimeters, the official, who has direct knowledge of the operation, told CNN. Three of the boys are too small for the wetsuits on hand.
But the number of rescue workers staying with the team in the chamber had been reduced from 10 people to five because of the lowered oxygen levels.
Authorities were pushing ahead with plans to free the team hours after former Sgt. Saman Kunan, a Thai ex-SEAL, died at 2 a.m. Friday (2 p.m. Thursday ET), as he returned from an operation to deliver oxygen tanks to the cave where the boys are located.
The 38-year-old ran out of air while underwater, an official said.
The boys, members of a youth football team, and their coach have been trapped in the labyrinthine cave at the Tham Luang Nang Non complex for nearly two weeks, unable to navigate their way out of a series of narrow passages after floodwaters forced them to take shelter on a rocky ledge.
The huge operation to rescue them involves dozens of Thai Navy SEALs, and experts and volunteer divers from parts of Europe and Asia, as well as Australia and the US. Billionaire inventor and entrepreneur Elon Musk said Friday engineers from his SpaceX & Boring Co. were heading to Thailand to see if they could help.
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Chiang Rai, Thailand (CNN)Pressure is mounting on Thai authorities to bring forward a rescue plan for 12 boys and their coach trapped deep inside a flooded cave in northern Thailand, after the death of a former navy diver and a drop in oxygen levels underground.
Officials initially thought they could keep the boys and their coach in the cave where they are trapped for up to four months, until waters dropped sufficiently for them to be able to walk out.
But the death of a rescue team member, and the realization that oxygen levels have fallen to potentially dangerous levels, appears to have forced a reassessment of the situation.
Thai Navy SEAL chief Rear Adm. Aphakorn Yoo-kongkaew said oxygen levels in the cave had dropped to 15%, a level that one Thai medic said posed a serious risk of hypoxia, the same condition that causes altitude sickness.
It was too dangerous to leave the boys much longer, Yoo-kongkaew said, despite the risks involved in attempting to bring them out.
"We can no longer wait for all conditions (to be ready) because of the oppressive situation," he told journalists Friday.
"We originally thought the young boys could stay safe inside the cave for quite a long time but circumstances have changed. We have limited amount of time."
He did not say how long they could survive with current oxygen levels, but he said getting more oxygen piped into the boys was top priority.
Scuba oxygen tanks being delivered to the cave rescue site on July 01, 2018.
Despite concerns, the boys are unlikely to be extracted within the next 24 hours because it was still too dangerous, according to a Thai Navy official who is not authorized to speak to the media.
One reason the team cannot yet be evacuated is that rescuers were also still searching for three more wetsuits with a thickness of five millimeters, the official, who has direct knowledge of the operation, told CNN. Three of the boys are too small for the wetsuits on hand.
But the number of rescue workers staying with the team in the chamber had been reduced from 10 people to five because of the lowered oxygen levels.
Authorities were pushing ahead with plans to free the team hours after former Sgt. Saman Kunan, a Thai ex-SEAL, died at 2 a.m. Friday (2 p.m. Thursday ET), as he returned from an operation to deliver oxygen tanks to the cave where the boys are located.
The 38-year-old ran out of air while underwater, an official said.
The boys, members of a youth football team, and their coach have been trapped in the labyrinthine cave at the Tham Luang Nang Non complex for nearly two weeks, unable to navigate their way out of a series of narrow passages after floodwaters forced them to take shelter on a rocky ledge.
The huge operation to rescue them involves dozens of Thai Navy SEALs, and experts and volunteer divers from parts of Europe and Asia, as well as Australia and the US. Billionaire inventor and entrepreneur Elon Musk said Friday engineers from his SpaceX & Boring Co. were heading to Thailand to see if they could help.
Elon Musk making “kid-sized submarine” to rescue teens in Thailand cave: "Construction complete in about 8 hours," the tech billionaire tweeted Saturday. https://bit.ly/2udXj2P
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BANGKOK: Four schoolboys have emerged from a flooded Thai cave after divers launched a daring and dangerous mission to rescue the children and their soccer coach, who have been trapped underground for more than two weeks, a Thai official said.
"Four kids are out. They are currently at the field hospital near the cave," Tossathep Boonthong, chief of the health department in Chiang Rai in northern Thailand, told Reuters. "We are giving them a physical examination."
Thirteen foreign divers and five members of Thailand's elite navy SEAL unit are trying to bring the rest of the boys - some as young as 11 and weak swimmers - through narrow, submerged passageways that claimed the life of a former Thai navy diver on Friday.
Their ordeal has drawn huge media attention in Thailand and abroad, and getting the boys out safely could be a boost for Thailand's ruling junta ahead of a general election next year.
"Today is D-Day," Narongsak Osottanakorn ..
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