Twelve children are waiting to be rescued in the flooded cave of Tham Luang in Thailand. The path that separates them is diabolically narrow, several kilometers long and full of dangers. An elite diver is already dead when leaving.
Nevertheless, the children will probably have to take this route. The question is: when?
As time goes on, the pressure increases: the air in the cavern becomes shorter and shorter. And while dozens of pumps work and move as much water outward as possible to make the escape route a little less threatening, a new disaster threatens.
The monsoon could soon come back to full power!
While most of the time it was dry, there was already a violent melting on Saturday, the sky opened at night (local time) its locks. Then he sank on, reports reporter BILD on the site.
But it is mostly the weather forecast for the next few days, the fear is: For the mountainous region on the border with Myanmar, heavy rains are expected.
Threats, strong bursts of clouds threaten for hours. And it means: The rainwater penetrates through the rock into the cave, where the water level rises rapidly.
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Diving into the narrow and winding pbadages of the cave becomes even more dangerous.
► On Saturday morning, the governor of the province, Narongsak Osotthanakorn, said that he preferred to start the recovery operation. delay a little. Boys aged 11 to 16 and their caregivers are not trained enough to scuba dive to venture out of the dark cave for miles, for which even elite units need five to six hours.
Underground drama in Thailand
In the evening his badessment changed: now he said that the conditions for a rescue were – what the water level and the health of the boys – "very suitable".
By that he meant: In the coming days it will only get worse.
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