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An international team of lifeguards faces the challenge of taking 12 teenagers and their football coach to a flooded cave in Chiang Rai Province, Thailand. On Tuesday, they received food and medicine for the first time in 10 days.
A photo on Facebook shows the coach with some of the young footballers
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Seven divers, including a doctor and a nurse, went to meet them to check their health, feed them and keep them company. by divers on Monday, on a rock – they were trapped in the cave after a football training, because of a flood.
The authorities study the evacuation of the waters of the cave, even teach them to dive to leave the place. But all the options are difficult, and the authorities say that they will have to stay where they are for months until they are saved.
How are they going to get out?
One possibility is that the rescue team teaches children "The possibility of reducing them is the fastest but also the most dangerous," says Anmar Mirza, National Coordinator of the National Coordinator of the Commission.
It took a few days for a team of some of the world's best divers to reach the point where children – many of whom can not swim – would have to overcome the heavy torrents of water, reduced visibility and narrow pbadages.
The boys were visited by a doctor and a nurse who brought them food and examined them
It took them several hours to get to the group from the entrance, using tiny pbadages filled with wrecks, aided by pumping efforts 24 hours a day to try to clear the waters of the island. ;island.
Photo: Reuters / BBC News Brazil
The rescue team can deliver masks and install, along the way, diving ropes, oxygen tanks and fluorescent sticks for guide the children.
Edd Sorenson, Florida regional coordinator for the International Organization for the Rescue and Recovery of Underwater Caves, told BBC News that the diving option is "extremely dangerous and risky" "
"In a place completely devoid of visibility, unfamiliar with this type of extreme condition, it is very likely that they will panic, putting themselves in danger of death.
Another option is to wait until the water level drops so that the group can leave the cave on foot, but it can take months, as it is a monsoon season in the region.
"The four-month period is the worst possible scenario, but the authorities will take every opportunity to remove the boys as quickly as possible." Youkonggaew
says divers are also evaluating the possibility of drilling the rock and Removing the boys by air, which would also be a difficult task
.In the process, new roads should be built above the caves to accommodate the drilling equipment needed to break the rock
In addition, Anmar Mirza explains that a study of the caves should be done and that it would be necessary to know them before starting to drill, otherwise there would be little chance of digging a hole at good place for boys and coach.
"It sounds easy, but it's actually very difficult.It's like finding a needle in a haystack."
Special masks are delivered to the group in the cave, since they do not know how to dive, and that some do not even know how to swim.
Boys – aged 11 to 16 – and their 25-year-old coach are grouped on the edge of a small rock
Photo: AFP / BBC News Brazil
What are the dangers to Inside the cave? . The place is humid so they must stay dry and warm at the risk of hypothermia.
Avalanches or landslides are also a risk, but rescuers' main concern is to increase the water level in the cave.
This could complicate the access routes to the group and decrease the amount of air available in the room where they are, in addition to ruining the rescue plans.
The boys and the trainer will also need According to Andy Eavis, former director of the British Speleology Association, they would stay calm and stand on the rock waiting for the rescue.
Otherwise, they could fall into a hole between the rocks or be carried by the water. "The biggest problem is having to crawl indoors in the dark," Eavis told the BBC
What kind of help will they receive?
On Tuesday, the rescue team took food and medicine for boys. They received, for example, paracetamol tablets and carbohydrate gel tubes.
"We are preparing to send more food, which can keep them for at least four months, and train the 13 to dive while we continue. Authorities say most of the group is unscathed, although some are weak and suffer minor injuries. A doctor and a nurse are with them and will evaluate if they are strong enough to be removed from there.
Meanwhile, divers have already begun to take hundreds of oxygen tanks in the cavern and are preparing to make a base camp.
The rescue team is trying to install phone lines on the site let the kids talk to their parents
"Darkness is something that greatly weakens people in these situations," says Andy Eavis
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How will they cope with psychological pressure? According to him, the boys may have used flashlights and lights on their cell phones, but they were probably in the dark for hours.
Then the rescuers brought lights into the cave and made society.
"They are psychologically stable, which is very good," he told the newspaper, "they are stable psychologically, which is very good," he said. The AFP press agency, Belgian diver Ben Reymenants, part of the rescue operation
"Fortunately, the coach had the good sense to keep them sitting together to save their energy.] BBC News Brazil "/>
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