Navy SEAL diver dies trying to save the boys

Saman Gunan, 37, a former Thai Navy SEAL sailor, died in the cold waters inside the cave complex around 2 am Friday, local time, after missing Air

. an operation of delivery of air tanks and swam from room 4 to room 3, the main base of operations of the Seals and divers in the complex, when he lost consciousness

A dive buddy tried to administer first aid in the water, then pbaded Master Saman to the third chamber, where other attempts have been made to revive him. was too late His body was then taken to a local hospital and the Thai king said he would have funeral with all the honors.

The 12 Thai footballers aged 12 to 16 and their 25-year-old coach entered day 13 trapped in the cave, much of the rescue effort on Friday was to feed an oxygen tube to 4 kilometers into the cave to improve the air supply, which has worsened because of the influx of rescuers

The seal commander, Rear Admiral Apakorn Yookongkaew, told the media that the morale of the staff was still good despite the death of Sergeant Gunan and that the section of the cave where the old seal was dead was "treacherous"

. The air tube is aimed at students because the lack of oxygen in the cave affects children, "he said, adding that a phone line in the cave will also be routed into the tube.

As a sign of the fluidity of the situation on the cave site, Admiral Yookongkaew warned: "We used to think that the students could survive in the cave but now many things have changed. "

" The plan [rescue] can be adapted and changed, "he said, adding that" time is now the most important factor "

General Chalorngchai Chaiyakum, deputy commander of The Third Thai Royal Army told Fairfax Media on Friday:" We are concerned about CO2 [levels] in the cave. "

But he could not confirm how much oxygen had been lost in the cave because

Oxygen bottles had already arrived late Thursday night at the site and the governor confirmed that The air supply of the cave was a concern for the rescuers.

The last 1.7 kilometers of the cave are flooded with water, according to authorities.

Representatives The American entrepreneur Elon Musk is also in talks with the Thai authorities to help relief.

Musk Enterprises could help by locating the precise location of boys using Space Exploration Technologies (Space X) or Boring Company, while pumping water. A Danish volunteer diver Ivan Karadzic, who owns a diving school in Koh Tao, Thailand, and who performed refueling dives up to the T-intersection inside caverns, told Fairfax Media that it would be "here until they are either successful or they ask us to leave." All I own is here, we sent all our equipment. "

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He believed that there was no choice but to save the boys and their coach by diving and swimming.

" I do not see any alternative, maybe now with what happened [the death] they will consider t the alternative to stay there. I have no idea how many millions of liters of water they need to pump, it's probably amazing: diving is possible [for the kids] but that's not sure I do not know what they will do. "

On Friday night, the governor said that if the boys were to dive," the most dangerous point is extremely narrow, the boys will have to dive alone, the water is deep enough and long at this time and the [Thai navy] SEALS can not be next to them. "

"We did an badessment and we think it's quite dangerous at this point to get them out, it's too dangerous to dive."

According to the governor, the best time for the boys would be to go out at night because they were in the dark for 13 days.Three of the trapped members of the football team were suffering from exhaustion, he said. Added