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Monsoon rains have complicated the frantic quest of children aged 11 to 16 and the coach who has not been heard since they ventured into Tham Cave Luang last Saturday in northern Thailand and were blocked by heavy rains.
But a pause in the rainy weather and the establishment of an advanced operations base inside torsion chambers have made it possible that the 13 could be located and tended to see you soon .
"Today we must rush to the children," the Navy Seal Commander and Rear Admiral Apakorn Yookongkaew told reporters. "We will not stop until we find them."
Stakeholders place additional oxygen tanks along the walls and light up in the hope that they can provide a path to an airy room called Pattaya Beach where officials believe that the building is located on the beach. team could stay.
The base will also help rescuers get out boys if and when they are found, and provide them with immediate food and medical badistance.
"We have a plan for the next process after the rescue We have a plan on what to do, how the treatment will be," said Chiang Rai's governor, Narongsak Osottanakorne, adding that they were also exploring the entrance to the cave. drilling from above.
This optimistic attitude comes after a week of heavy rains that hit the region near the borders of Myanmar and Laos, making it difficult to reach more deeply the 10 kilometers of Tham Luang.
"I feel happy as I have never felt in a long time, a lot of good signs," said head coach of the football team Nopparat Khanthavong, 37, at AFP Sunday.
"The rain has stopped and the rescue teams have found ways to reroute the water course", diverting its flow so that it does not enter the cave any more , he said. "Families feel a lot better too."
Dramatic waiting pierced Thailand, dominating the front pages of newspapers and making headlines in international newspapers.
Teams of foreign experts from Australia, England, Japan and China, including more than 30 US troops, descended on the remote mountain site to reach about 1,000 rescuers Thai.
Outside the main entrance, other researchers were trying to find a way into the cave through separate chimneys, and the rescue staff were performing simulacra in case they should find the boys and take them to the hospital.
Large water pumps were also installed in a nearby village to drain water from the area.
Tham Luang is one of Thailand's longest and most difficult caves to navigate, but drilling experts are hoping that its limestone formations could mean a series of holes and alternate inputs that could possibly be explored by camera.
"We are still expecting some difficulties because we have to drill not vertically, but slanted," AFP Suthisak Soralump, a geotechnical engineer responsible for drilling efforts, told AFP. "But anyway we put our best team in Thailand to come, so let's try."
Officials said that the boys knew the site well and that they had visited it several times before, so they were able to take refuge over the water.
Rescuers found footprints and handprints in a room earlier in the week, further from where they found the children's football boots, backpacks and bicycles.
Parents and friends held vigils and prayed for their safe return.
"I miss them," said Thananchai Saengtan, 15, a friend of a player. "I want them to come back so we can play football together."
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