How will Thai teens be saved in a flooded cave?

Rescuers in Thailand must conduct an operation to rescue 12 teenagers and their football coach from a flooded cave. The BBC tells how the rescue operation will take place

When they were discovered on Monday, July 2, the children and the trainer had already spent nine days in the cave without food and without light.

However, because of the constant rains, children may have to spend some time

One option is to teach teens to swim with diving equipment.

"The dive rescue option is the fastest, but also the most dangerous," said the BBC. -See the coordinator of the US National Commission for Rescuing Lost People in Caves x Anmar Mirza.

took a few days for them able to get some of the best divers in the world. Previously, some children could not swim, and they had to overcome fast currents and restricted spaces and move in poor visibility.

Rescuers can provide boys with full face masks for diving, oxygen bottles and stand-alone light sources. put the guide line all the way. But experts believe that the risk is always big.

The regional coordinator of the International Organization for the Rescue and Evacuation of Underwater People in Caves Ed Sorsenson told the BBC that the diving option is too dangerous .

"When a person has zero visibility, when it is not suitable for such conditions, it is likely that she starts to panic and kill herself or the rescuers. "

Drilling

Schery walls to try to siphon some of the water, but it does not allow us to do hard rock.

is considering options for evacuating boys out of the cave and getting out of a helicopter into the pierced hole. But for that, it would take a new route to the cave complex to deliver heavy drilling equipment.

Another option is to wait until the end of the flood so that the group can leave the cave on foot. But it can take several months – now the rainy season is at its peak

What can they threaten in the cave?

Teenagers aged 11 to 16 and their 25-year-old coach are on the cramped slope of the cave. It is very humid, so they must stay warm and dry to avoid hypothermia.

Until the children are released, they must remain calm and not leave the land on which they are.

"The main problem is that they have to move in the dark," said former director of the British Speleological Association Andy Ivis

Three Councils of the Minor Chilean

Luis Chilean Urzua spent 69 days underground in 2010, waiting for salvation. The history of Chilean minors imprisoned around the world eight years ago as well as the disappearance and disappearance of Thai teens.

According to Urzua, the most important in this situation is to monitor the state of physical and psychological health. The children have already been contacted by divers with first aid skills, and the children should listen carefully to their advice, including on nutrition: they have eaten nothing for nine days and the bad outcome has not occurred. an enforced hunger strike can affect their health. keep the presence of the spirit and do not give in to discouragement, says Urzua. He remembers that when his group of miners was discovered, everyone was very happy, but there was a decline because it was not necessary to wait for an immediate rescue.

Finally, it is important to work as a team and to support each other.

On Tuesday, July 3, children receive food and medical supplies.

"We will prepare for shipment additional food supplies, which must last at least four months, and lead all 13 hours ago Lovêk dive.At the same time, the pumping of water of the cave complex will be continued, "according to the Thai armed forces.

According to the authorities, the children were mostly unaffected, only a few were weak or slightly injured. In the cave, hundreds of oxygen tanks and they soon plan to enter the cave camp

How can they stay calm?

"Being in the dark has a strong impact on a person". and mobile phones phones, but most likely they spent a lot of time in total darkness. As a result, rescuers provide the group with lamps and communicate with trapped juvenile minors.

In addition, divers prepare to make telephone and electrical calls so that children can talk to their parents. With all this in mind, the rescue operation is successful.

"They do not panic, which is very cool," said Belgian diver Ben Reymanants, involved in the rescue operation. – He was very lucky that the coach was able to keep everyone in the group, close to each other, in order to save energy. In fact, they saved them. "