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Teams are trying to save a group of people trapped in the cave of Thailand. Photo taken from Twitter.
The death of a diver during a refueling mission increases the pressure on the teams trying to rescue the twelve miners and the monitor trapped in a cave in northern Thailand for 13 days.
The death, announced today by the authorities at a press conference, highlighted the difficult operation that relief teams face in the interior of the labyrinthine and partially flooded cavity where the cloistered group remains.
The victim, a former member of the Navy's elite corps and identified as 38-year-old Saman Kunan, died Thursday night of having more oxygen while She was submerged and was successfully completing a supply mission to the cave. 19659004] " The death of this expert diver serves to show the difficulty of life-saving tasks . Despite the death we will not stop working to take the group ", said Pbadkorn Boonyaluck, vice governor of Chiang Rai Province, the scene of the drama.
On each trip to the cave, divers have to cross about 1.7 kilometers of narrow pbadages between zero visibility and water currents, a road that comes and goes, about eleven o'clock.
" The road to children is a continuous succession of and exhausting challenges " Rafael Arush, a volunteer diver who participates in these tasks, told Efe.
Concerns about the approach of a rainy season, in addition to the decrease in the amount of oxygen in the cavity
Apakorn Yookongkaew, commander of the Thai divers, told the media that they planned to lay a pipe to provide air to the twelve children and to the adult.
" Despite the bad news, the determination of the rescue teams to take the group remains intact ," said a representative of the Australian military forces in badistance tasks.
Authorities are considering two options for the departure of children: diving through the flooded pbadages or finding a hole in the mountain where to get them using a helicopter.
However, relief operations will not begin Friday evening, badured the media at the midnight limit the governor of the province Narongsak Ossottanakorn, without giving a date
" We will take the least risk possible but we can not wait for the heavy rains to start and the situation worsens "Narongsak said. The water situation is now "better than ever," said Finnish diver Nikko Paasi, by decreasing the amount after a favorable climate window and incessant artificial drainage through the operation of about twenty pumps d & # 39; extraction.
Proceeding, the operations will proceed gradually, taking children first in better physical and psychological conditions.
consisting of twelve children between 11 and 16 years old and a 26 year old adult – was found Monday night on a dry land island four kilometers inside the cave and after nine days of intense research to which more than 1,300 people participated
Visibly thin, but in good humor and good health, the children are treated in the cave by a dozen soldiers, including a doctor and a psychologist.
Thanks to the intake of vitamin supplements, the group is gradually recovering its forces for the second phase: the exit of the cave located in the natural park of Tham Luang-Khun Nam Nang, on the border between Thailand and Burma
To this end, schoolchildren and the monitor have begun intensive training to learn to dive, a high-risk option, but according to experts is still most likely.
"At this moment, the children can not A few hours before the Danish diver Ivan Karadzic advance to the media that the authorities have asked them to" get ready "for the mission.
The thirteen are went to the galleries Saturday, June 23 after a football training when a sudden storm began to flood the cavity and cut the exit EFE
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