An Israeli rescuer predicts that the rescue of the Thai cave will take a week while a new video will come out

An Israeli rescuer involved in efforts to extract a boys' football team and their coach trapped in a Thai cave predicts that the group would be released within a week, a new video emerging showing them in a good mood after their astonishing discovery by divers nine days after disappearing.

In a heartwarming message to families waiting in anguish on the outside, the Navy SEAL video shows 11 of the 12 team members, each making a Thai gesture in front of the camera before introducing himself, saying, "I am in good health."

Many of the boys in the frame wear protective paper covers and are accompanied by a smiling diver in a wetsuit.

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Their 25-year-old coach, who was accompanying the boys in the cave after a football training on June 23, is not heard in the pictures, posted on the Thai Navy's Facebook page.

This is the second video to delight a Thai nation that has held its breath for the movie clip. A minute ends on a cheerful note, one of 12 young footballers saying that it was forgotten during the round of introductions, causing laughter [19659010]. The boys seem relaxed and much more alert than when they were discovered late Monday by British divers, while they were harboring groundwater that was breaking on a muddy ledge.

On the outside of the boy's mother cave ripped as she watched the clip on a television screen, saying that she was "happy" for a glimpse of his son. "19659003" "He is thinner" she says, placing her finger on her picture – a sign (19659003) Several divers of the Navy SEAL have deployed with doctors, while the difficult process of evacuating the "Wild Boar" team begins.

A Thai rescuer walks near where the water is pumped from a flooded c with 12 boys and their football coach were found alive in Mae Sai, Chiang province Rai, in the north of Thailand on July 3, 2018. (Sakchai Lalit / AP)

The Thai authorities say that the focus is now on boys Then they have three main options: dive out of the system of caves, go out through another hole if it can be found – or drilled – or wait for the underground rainy season.

Experts say diving is fraught with risk – especially since the boys have never dived before and I can not swim.

The areas of the cave remain submerged and the murky waters are very difficult to navigate. if the boys receive a good equipment and an intensive course on how to dive.

The last option could be extended while the monsoon begins to bite and officials say that they have stored food, medicine and equipment to last up to four months in a base underground.

On this photo published by the Department of National Parks and Wildlife of Thailand, on June 27, 2018, rescue personnel search another entrance to a cave where 12 boys from a football team and their coach are missing in Mae Sai, Chiang Rai. (Department of National Parks and Wildlife of Thailand via AP)

However Yuval Zalmanov, who is involved in the rescue efforts of the Israeli company Maxtech, which manufactures emergency communication devices, said that He thought that the group was going to get out of it.

Yuval Zalmanov addressing to Israeli television from Thailand, July 3, 2018. (screen capture: Channel 10)

"There are some ideas to save them, some are longer and other shorter ones, I think it will not take more than a week, "he told the Channel 10 television channel on Tuesday.

He did not not specified on what was the basis of his badessment.

Zalmanov said that Maxtech had managed to establish a wireless communication "There is almost no time" when arriving on the site.

"This is the only communication device available to rescuers," he said. "It is an Israeli technology of which we are very proud, that we are able to help them."