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The boys will return home with their families after almost a month. (File)
With a digging routine, breaks for water and meditation, a group of young Thai footballers and their trainer remained alive trapped in a cave without food for nine days before they were found by two British divers in a remarkable search and rescue operation that seized the world.
In their first public appearance since their daring and almost unlikely rescue, young Thai footballers have emerged holding footballs, dribbling them boys, their 25-year-old coach Ekapol Chanthawong, have persuaded them of take a short trip into the vast cave system after playing football in June. 23. They had no food or snacks with them, he says, planning to stay there for an hour and be at home before dark. None of the boys had even informed their parents of their plans.
When they went farther and farther, they used a guide rope, pulling it twice when those in front of the group realized that they could not continue. Soon they reached this point – and they tried to retreat. But when they tried to return to the intersection of the cave, their only exit, they realized that there were floods.
"We discovered that there was water coming down from the rocks," says Ekapol. The team found a shelter instead, prayed before sleep that night and hoped that the water levels would be low enough for them to swim the next day
This was the first of the nine days that football players and their coach had to do without food. , trapped in the Tham Luang cave system in a lush mountain range in northern Thailand, near the border with Myanmar. Over the hours, they lost the sense of time they had spent in the dark rooms of the cave. Faced with a group of hungry and weakened boys, Ekapol urged them to drink water to fill themselves and to try to dig holes in the cave with rocks, so that they have a sense of l & # 39; goal.
We continued drinking water to fill our belly, "says Ekapol.
The boys were aged 11 to 16. The youngest of them, Chanin Wiboonrungrueng – known under his nickname, Titan – said that he soon began to feel weak and dizzy, and struggled to keep his mind out of food.
"We tried not to think about food, as the fried rice, because that would make us more hungry. The disappearance of the boys and their novice monk turned coach of the small town of Mae Sai on the border between Thailand and Myanmar has launched an international rescue effort involving thousands of divers, rescuers, cave experts and military Thai and foreign .
The plan to extract them by plunging them out of the flooded pbadages of the cave with the successful rescue of all 13, who have since recovered in a hospital. They were released Wednesday and will join their family at home, almost a month after their disappearance.
(Except for the title, this story was not published by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated thread.)
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