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Some of the boys trapped in the Tham Luang cave.
An everyday look at the test of 12 boys and their trainer, who were trapped at the bottom of a flooded cave in northern Thailand for more than two weeks: [19659006] June 23: 12 members of the local youth football team Wild Boars with their 25-year-old coach at Tham Luang Nang cave to explore, when heavy rain begin. When no boys return home after dark and can not be contacted, the parents report them as missing. Their bicycles are parked and locked at the entrance of the cave when a search begins around midnight.
June 24: Search and rescue teams including local authorities, police and rescue workers find soccer shoes and backpacks at the entrance of the cave
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of a cave in northern Thailand to Chiang Rai hospital after being transported by helicopter.
June 25: Sailors from the Thai Navy join the search effort. As the research expands, handprints and footprints that are believed to belong to the boys are further away from the entrance to the cave. Parents organize an evening out.
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June 26: As the searchers enter the cave, Anupong Paojinda tells journalists that they are severely handicapped by the muddy water that filled their room ceilings of the big cave
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Two ambulances carrying the sixth and seventh boys released from Tham Luang Nang cave No.
Jun. 27: More heavy rains hamper research efforts, flooding underground passages faster than water can be pumped. A US military team and British cave specialists, along with several other private teams of foreign speleologists, join the operation
June 28: Efforts begin to drain the groundwater from the cave by drilling outside in the mountains. The search for other entrances to the cave intensifies while the dive is temporarily suspended for safety reasons.
June 29: Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha visits the site of the caves and urges the relatives of the disappeared not to lose hope. Efforts to drain the cave with pumps make little progress.
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The Four Seals of the Navy Thai, including the doctor, who stayed with the remaining four boys and the coach until they were saved from the cave.
June 30: The effort to locate the missing is picking up speed, as a break in the rain facilitates flooding in the cave system and more experts from around the world, including Australia and China, join the rescue mission. In anticipation of finding the boys, an evacuation drill is organized to find out how they will be sent to the hospital after leaving the cave.
July 1: Rescue divers advance into the main passageway inside the flooded cave. a staging area inside. The Thai Navy Seals reach a turning point where the passage of one kilometer long divides into two directions
2 July: Two experienced British divers locate the missing boys and their trainer. They record a video of boys talking with them
KATE GERAGHTY / FAIRFAX AUSTRALIA [19659004] third day of the rescue operation
July 3: The Thai Navy Seals bring food and medicine. Videos are shown showing the boys running in turns, crossing their hands in a traditional Thai greeting and saying their names. The boys also say that they are in good health.
July 4: A total of seven seals and a doctor are now in place to stay with the boys. Options are discussed to find out if the boys should be out of the cave with divers soon or kept in place until the conditions improve.
5 July: Boys continue their diving courses in case a decision is made on a partially underwater route.
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Narongsak Osatanakorn, who was leading the rescue operation of the football team and the coach trapped in a flooded cave, told the media that the operation is going "better than expected" .
July 6: Officials indicate that they prefer to extract the boys as soon as possible, fearing an additional danger if they are forced to stay indoors by more of rain causing additional flooding. Concerns are growing over the drop in oxygen levels inside the cave. A former Navy member assisting in the rescue effort dies of a lack of oxygen during his mission
July 7: The letters that the boys and their trainer wrote to parents of boys are made public. Officials suggest that an underwater evacuation will be done in the following days due to predictions of a rain storm. However, they say that the diving skills of boys are not yet where they should be.
July 8: The official responsible for the rescue operation states that "D-Day" has arrived when he announces the beginning of the mission. Divers take out four boys by narrow passages and flooded caverns
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General Bancha Duriyaphan responds to press questions after resumption of rescue operations
9 July: Divers take four other boys safely on the second day of the rescue operation.
July 10: On the third day of the rescue operation, the divers take out the remaining four boys and their trainer, ending an ordeal that lasted more than two weeks. Emergency team thought to carry one of the relief Soldiers from the flooded cave head to Chiang Rai Hospital. "title =" "src =" https://resources.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/q/q/8/1/o/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620×349.1qqwex.png/ 1531246374721.jpg "class =" photoborder "/>
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A helicopter carrying one of the surviving boys flooded cave lands in Chiang Rai
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