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Lifeguards come down to the entrance of a complex of caves where 12 boys and their soccer coach have disappeared.
Rescuers have overcome a key obstacle in the increasingly desperate search for 12 boys and their missing coach in a northern cave. More than a week ago, US officials said:
A team led by sailors from the Thai Seal Marine went through the darkness of a long room of one. kilometer up to a passage that could allow the missing to shelter. Commander, Rear Admiral Arpakorn Yookongkaew
But Arpakorn said that although divers have made some progress, they are not yet where they want to be.
"It's still difficult because the water current is pretty strong".
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The missing boys, aged 11 to 16, and their 25-year-old coach entered the vast cave Tham Luang Nang in Chiang Rai Province after playing football on June 23rd.
They were apparently trapped
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Rescuers carry heavy water pumping equipment in Tham Luang Nang No cave
Divers were blocked again and again by muddy water amount to the ceiling of the room, forcing them to withdraw for security reasons.
When water levels dropped, divers advanced
The teams that swam Sunday included Seals, Australian divers and rescuers from the Thai city of Ayutthaya.
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Thai air force workers and drilling experts prepare for a flight in helicopter while rescuers look for alternate paths in the flooded cave. the goal is to arrive at an area of the cave known as Pattaya Beach.
This section of the cave has a higher elevation, and the authorities hope that it has remained dry and the 13 missing ones are sheltered there.
The search was slow, largely because the floods prevented rescuers from entering the caves.
The pumping of water from the cave did not solve the problem, so other teams sought to divert the groundwater. 19659007] Other efforts have been made to find mountain-side wells that could be used as a back door to the blocked areas where the missing could be housed.
Teams passed the side of the mountain looking for cracks that could lead to such wells
Several were found and explorers were able to descend into some wells, but up to here it was not possible is not clear if they lead to any where useful.
"We looked at all the areas and we brought in about 20, and there are about 10 with the possibility of having wells," said Narongsak. "But for now, we have reduced to two.We are working today inside these two wells. "
Cave rescue experts from around the world continued to gather at the site.
A group Australian official now followed a US military team, British cave experts, Chinese rescue workers and several other groups of volunteers from different countries.
– AP
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