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Mae Sai (Thailand) – A Thai diver died Friday after supplying children stuck for 13 days in a flooded cave in the north of the country, a blow to rescuers.
" After delivering a supply of oxygen, on the way home, he was out of oxygen " himself, the vice governor of Chiang province said. Rai, Pbadakorn Boonyaluck.
This former member of the Thai Navy Commandos " lost consciousness on the way home, his diving mate tried to help him and bring him back ," said the commando commander marine, Apakorn Yookongkaew.
" Even though we lost a man, we continue to have faith in our mission ," he badured, his voice trembling like all soldiers on Friday morning.
This drama is a reminder of the difficulty of the dive course to access the twelve children and their football coach stuck in this flooded cave.
Relief workers hurried on Friday to make preparations for evacuation, before the announced return of the rain.
They hope that, with the help of pumps, the water level will be lowered in time enough for the children to have little or no diving to do.
– 5 hours of diving –
For the moment, it takes eleven hours for a seasoned diver to make the round trip to the children: six hours to go, five hours back thanks to the current.
The course is several kilometers in rough casings, with difficult underwater pbadages.
But the rescuers refuse to pronounce in favor of a diving evacuation of the children.
" We continue to consider several options ," General Chalongchai Caiyakam said at the daily press conference.
For the time being, rescuers say they prefer to wait for the water to drop, even if they have to supply the children with food for weeks: this would allow the children to go out on foot through the gallery, with a minimum of marines to go with masks.
This is the preferred option for rescuers, who have set up a pumping system, badisted by Japanese engineers, who has already released from this cave ten kilometers long the equivalent of more than 50 pools Olympic.
– Avoiding the hasty exit –
A hasty exit is the emergency plan that the authorities want to avoid. The death of this seasoned diver is a heavy blow to the morale of hundreds of rescuers mobilized, including many foreigners, Australian or British.
But if the rising waters resume with the rains announced for Friday, they may not have a choice.
It is already because of these monsoon rains that the children found themselves in the trap of the cave on June 23, after having decided, for a still unclear reason, to go there after their football training. , with their young coach of 25 years.
The families evoke a possible birthday party they would have liked to hold in the cave for one of them who turned 16 on June 23.
In parallel, rescuers are always looking for an entrance way from the top of the mountain that is connected or easily connectable via a borehole, with the part of the cave where the children are.
On Friday, they had to go through these upper tracks to the motion detector, to try to establish the exact location of the children below.
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