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Football Team Of 12 Trapped In Cave Found Alive After 9 Days
Twelve Thai boys and their football coach who were trapped in a flooded cave and lost for nine days may be stuck there for months before they can be rescued.
The 'rake thin' schoolboys, who were found starving but unhurt by British volunteer divers John Volanthen and Rick Stanton on Monday, may have to survive in the cave until October when water levels subside at the end of monsoon season.
Cave experts say it would be 'unbelievably dangerous' to try to get the boys out while the waters are still high with more heavy rains expected over the next few days.
Authorities are now considering teaching the boys - none of whom can swim - how to dive so they can be guided out of the Thamg Luang cave network in Chiang Rai, northern Thailand.
In the meantime, two Navy SEAL doctors have agreed to stay with the group as rescuers send them food to last four months.
Rescue workers line up near Tham Luang cave complex on Tuesday as the operation to provide the boys with food and water continues
Two Thai rescuers were among those who dived to get provisions to the boys. Two Navy SEAL doctors have agreed to stay with the group as rescuers send them food to last four months
Fierce waters: A Thai rescuer walks near where water is pumped from the flooded cave after all 12 boys and their soccer coach were found alive
Rescuers are sent inside Tham Luang Nang Non cave network as rains continue to stream down raising fears the boys will be trapped for a long while
A Thai rescuer prepares oxygen tanks for diving after the 12 boys and their soccer coach were found alive in Mae Sai, Chiang Rai province
The footballers - who are unharmed apart from two with 'light injuries' - have been given energy gels and paracetamol while a phone cable is being installed so they can speak to their shattered parents.Â
Teams have been pumping 10,000 litres of water out of the caves every hour - but this is only enough to lower the level by one centimeter.
'We will prepare to send additional food to be sustained for at least four months and train all 13 to dive while continuing to drain the water,' Thai Navy Captain Anand Surawan said on Tuesday.Â
Ben Reymenants, a Belgian diver who is part of the team supporting the rescue mission, said the boys could be cut off if the expected rains are severe.
'Time is not on our side - we're expecting heavy rain in three days', he told BBC Newsnight on Monday. 'If the cave system (floods) it would make access impossible to the kids.'
Public anticipation for the rescue has been high since Sunday, but officials avoided setting a timetable for the search and rescue operation. Pictured: Divers in the cave network where the boys are stuck
Rescue attempt: Rescuers have been pumping 10,000 litres of water every hour - but this is only enough to decrease levels by one centimetre every hour and heavy rains will come again tomorrow
Thai Navy seals have found all 12 boys and their football team coach alive after nine days of desperate searching in Thai caves
This photograph of some of the boys smiling was released by a parent after hearing the news their child had been found
Edd Sorenson, of International Cave Rescue and Recovery, told BBC News that swimming out of the cave is 'extremely dangerous' and it would be safer for the boys to wait because they may panic in the water.
'As long as the kids know we know where they're at, they have food, a way to keep warm, water or filtration systems and light, it would really be the safest to wait it out.Â
'Taking them in the water would be extremely dangerous for the kids and the coach - but also for the rescuers.'Â Â
The boys and their 25-year-old coach were found on a mud bank 6ft above the water level, 3 miles into the six mile network of caves.
The pair of British divers who found them were part of an increasingly desperate search mission launched after the group vanished when the caves they were exploring flooded on June 23.Â
Alive: The frightened youngsters were huddled together when the rescue team discovered them trapped in the flooded cave
The starving children were 'too weak to eat' and are now being treated at the scene by medics, according to Chang Rai governor Narongsak Osottanakorn
Footage filmed by the rescuers emerged yesterday showing the starved schoolboys asking: 'What day is it?'Â
News of the group all being found alive sparked scenes of jubilation across Thailand, where the public has nervously waited for news of the team's fate as family members held vigils praying for their rescue.
The emaciated and frightened boys were found perched on rocks deep in the cave in the north of the country.
Dramatic footage showed the moment two British divers, part of an international team of experts scouring the sprawling cave system for the group, first made contact. Â
Barely believing their success, one of the divers asked: 'How many of you [are there]?' When one boy replied 'thirteen', the rescuer exclaimed: 'Thirteen? Brilliant!'
They reassured the group, who were huddled together with their coach with baggy football shirts pulled over their knees, that more help was on the way.Â
But hopes of a speedy resolution to the incident were on a knife-edge today due to the forecast rains.
Diver Mr Reymenants said he agreed with BBC interviewer Emily Maitlis's assertion that the group could be trapped 'for weeks to come yet until they are strong enough'.
'None of them can swim or dive so that's going to be a real challenge,' he added.Â
Experts will meet today to start planning in detail how to extract the group from the place they were found more than a mile underground.Â
In the footage showing the moment they were found, one of the divers urges the group to stay calm and reassures them 'many, many people are coming... we are the first'.
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