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A Thai diver died Friday after helping children trapped for thirteen days in a flooded cave in the north of the country. This is definitely a blow to lifeguards.
"After delivering an oxygen reserve, on his return, he had no more oxygen ," said Vice President of Chiang Rai Province, Pbadakorn Boonyaluck.
This ex-member of the Thai Navy's commandos "lost consciousness on return, his diving partner tried to help him and take him away," said the commander of the Navy commandos , Yookongkaew Apakorn.
"Even though we have lost a man, we still have faith in our mission" he says, his voice trembling. The tragedy recalls the difficulty of the path that must be traveled, under the water, to reach the twelve children and their football coach, stuck in this flooded cave.
Rescuers are trying to make the most of their preparations for this Friday. evacuation before the return of rain, according to the forecast. They hope to be able, with the help of bombs, to bring down enough water so that children can get out without having to dive.
Five hours of diving
At the moment, an experienced diver, it takes 11 hours to make a round trip to where the children are : six rounds-six thanks to the current.
The road is several kilometers long and includes narrow pbadages and expanses under water.
Rescuers avoid pronouncing in favor of an evacuation of children divers: "We continue to consider several options," said General Chalongchai Caiyakam.
For now, rescuers prefer to wait until the water falls. to provide them with food for weeks: this would allow children to walk out through the gallery, with a minimum number of underwater sections to be covered with masks . This is the preferred option for rescuers, who have set up a pumping system, badisted by Japanese engineers, who has already removed from the 10-kilometer cave the equivalent of more than 50 Olympic pools.
Avoid a hasty exit
The authorities intend to avoid an emergency plan involving a precipitate departure . But if with the rains announced for Friday the water level rises again, maybe they have no choice.
The death of this diver has been a blow to the morale of the hundreds of rescuers mobilized, many of them They are foreign, Australian or British.
It is because of the monsoon that the children were stranded in the cave on June 23, after having decided, for an unclear reason, to visit him after his football training, with the coach, 25 years old
Meanwhile, the rescuers continue to look for an entrance from the top of the mountain that is connected or easily connected with a drill with the cave part where are the children. This Friday they have to go through there with a motion detector to try to determine the exact location of the children from the outside.
AFP
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