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On this Monday, July 2, 2018, file photo, the Thai police stands in front of the entrance of a cave complex where 12 boys and their football coach have disappeared to Mae Sai, Thailand.
Lalit Sakchai / The Associated Press
A Thai rescuer died after fainting during a part of an operation to rescue 12 boys and their coach trapped in a troglodyte complex in northern Thailand.
Samarn Poonan, former member of the SEAL unit of the Thai Navy. He was part of the rescue team in Chiang Rai, died Thursday night after entering the cave to lay oxygen tanks along a potential exit route, said the commander. SEAL
. "We are trying to find alternative techniques to reach the 13," Chiang Rai governor Narongsak Osottanakorn told reporters on Thursday. [Lire la suite]
19659004] "We have considered several alternatives to find the most feasible," he adds
. Rescue alternatives include teaching boys to dive and then swim, a very risky adventure, staying in the cave for months until the rainy season. the extremities and floodwaters recede, or digging a well in the cave from the forest above
The team measures 965 m
underground
The CN tower measures 553 m
(on the scale)
The team was found 4 km from
the entrance. it takes five to six
hours to cover the distance due to
all water and obstructions.
More than half of the road is flooded
"Pattaya
Beach"
400 m from
Team
There are areas where
climbing equipment complete
is required
Some of the flooded diving areas
are also
narrow to carry bottles
[19659030] Some diving areas
are so long, with such visibility [19659018] that divers
install ropes and rows
of air tanks every 25 m
TRISH McALASTER / GLOBE AND MAIL [19659036] SOURCES: CNN, BBC, DAILYMAIL.CO. UK
The team measures 965 m
underground
The CN Tower counts 553 m
(on scale)
The team was found 4 km from
l & # 39; entry. it takes five to six
hours to cover the distance due to
all water and obstructions.
More than half of the road is flooded
"Pattaya
Beach"
400 m from
Team
There are areas where
climbing equipment complete
is required
Some of the flooded dive areas
are too narrow
to carry diving cylinders
the dive areas are so long,
with such poor visibility that
rescue divers install ropes
and rows of air tanks every 25 m
TRISH McALASTER / THE GLOBE AND MAIL
SOURCES: CNN, BBC, DAILYMAIL.CO. UK
The team measures 965 m
underground
The CN Tower measures 553 m
(on the scale)
The team is 4 km from the entrance. 19659047] It takes five to six hours to cover the distance
because of all the water and obstructions.
More than half of the road is flooded.
There are areas where
needed
"Pattaya Beach"
400 m from the team
Some of the flooded dive areas
are too narrow
to to carry scuba tanks
Some diving areas are so long
visibility that rescue divers were installing guide ropes
and rows of air tanks every 25 m
TRISH McALASTER / THE GLOBE AND MAIL; SOURCES: CNN, BBC, DAILYMAIL.CO.UK
Boys, aged 11 to 16, and their badistant were found Monday in Tham Luang Cave, north of Chiang Rai Province, after nine days good spirits. They are missing after attempting to explore the cave on June 23rd.
Rescuers now decide how to remove the group, but have been slowed down by logistical problems, including high water levels in the cave and narrow and flooded pbadages.
The Thai Navy now teaches boys the basics of diving, with the aim of guiding them through flood waters
. But getting them out will not be easy. The boys will have to learn how to use diving equipment and navigate a cave that has frustrated even the most expert divers.
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"Regarding the plan for The 13 to swim or dive, there is only one". only one critical point that is risky: it is there that every boy has to dive alone.The point is very narrow … It's very deep water.Some of the boys do not know how to swim but rescuers are also considering other options, including keeping the 13th in Tham Luang cave until the waters recede at the end of the year. rains in about four months
Others say the boys could be out in the days if the weather is on their side and enough water can be pumped out of the cave to allow the boys to exit the same way
Another possibility would be to find another way in their room, like digging a well in the cave of the mount
Narongsak said the rescuers were preparing a five-kilometer (three-mile) "oxygen pipeline" as part of preparations for the group's extraction, but added that boys would not go out soon.
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"You see, we are increasing the number of people going inside the cave, so we have to fill it with oxygen," he said. said.
Heavy monsoon rains are expected for next week in most of the north, according to the Thai Meteorological Department
when and how to extract 12 boys and their football coach from a flooded cave complex, where they were found this week, hungry and fragile, but otherwise healthy, after more than a week lost underground. Reuters
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