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https://www.theguardian.com/news/20...-begin-operation-to-free-last-of-trapped-boys
Coach and kids went into a popular tourist destination cave (normally dry) in the latter half of June. There's a sign at the cave entrance warning about rain causing floods in the caves during July-August.
Cave started flooding with the coach and kids still in the cave. Waters start rising. They are cut off from the entrance. To escape the rising waters, the coach leads the kids deeper and deeper into the cave network.
After 9 days of darkness and being cut off from the rest of the world, the rescue divers finally find all the kids and the coach taking shelter on a dry ledge but surrounded by water.
Drilling from above into where they are is difficult because there's ~1 km of rock above them. Initially they considered the idea of waiting out the floods for the next 2-4 months by continually having divers send food+medical aid to their location; however, incoming monsoon season means that additional rain may cause their current position to completely flood with water, drowning all of them.
So they're trying to rebuild the survivors' strengths with food+water and giving the kids crash courses on underwater cave scuba diving. A guide rope has been extended from the cave entrance to their current position, so that should help. They will probably also position rescue divers at different checkpoints throughout the route to hand the kids off safely from one diver to another, in a relay race fashion.
It's unknown if this is Plan A or if it's a last resort plan at this stage. It's hard to tell when all the options don't look good, depending on if or when the flooding resumes.
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This is Very Big News in my country right now
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/25/world/asia/thailand-cave-missing-soccer-team.html
They missing a least 3 days.
I hope They all are fine and found them very soon.
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