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The first divers began Monday morning the second part of the demanding operation to rescue 12 boys and their football coach from the partially flooded cave in northern Thailand.
The rescue operation can last up to four days, writes the AP news agency. Thai officials confirm that the rescue operation resumed after the break that began after the withdrawal of four children Sunday. Currently, no details have been received.
Up to six of the remaining eight children can be found Monday, says a source close to the rescue operation. The number of those who have gone out depends on the fact that the full masks that they will use during the dive will be suitable for children, Aftenposten will turn on.
Still in the hospital
Four of the 12 boys were kidnapped Sunday after being in the cave since June 23, confirmed governor Narongsak Osatanakorn just before 9:00 pm Sunday night. He was greeted by spontaneous applause from the media waiting for confirmation all day.
The four boys were cared for at the Chiang Rai Regional Hospital, about 57 kilometers south of the cave. There, they also found their families, according to local media. They should be between 13 and 17 years old.
The health status of the four boys should be good, but it is necessary to keep one of them under surveillance, writes the Thai newspaper Khaosod
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after recovering the first four. the children had the dives to take a break. This was because they had used the oxygen they had in the gas cylinders placed in strategic places of the cave. These gas cylinders were replaced overnight
The next phase of the operation could already begin at 7:00 am local time, the governor said Sunday evening.
The road is very demanding
Children learned to dive with diving equipment since they were found on July 2nd. The outfit is very demanding. Children must swim with two adult divers. These divers carry the oxygen bottle of the child.
It is completely dark inside the cave, the water is cloudy and there are strong currents. In some places they have to swim long stretches under the water. A place must be passed through an opening that is so narrow that divers must remove the oxygen bottles. Elsewhere, it is possible to walk. The total distance is about four kilometers
As it is dangerous to dive into the cave was stressed by the death of a Thai diver on Friday. Saman Kunan, former diver of the Navy Seal, had the job of taking out oxygen bottles in the cave, but lost consciousness. He was removed from another diver, but his life did not save him.
The weather can determine the difficulty of the rescue operation.
The rescue team had predicted that it would take 11 to 12 hours before the first Sunday children. But it turned out that it took three to four hours longer than originally planned. This was due to the fact that the level of water in the cave remained relatively low, both because it continued to pump water and because the rainy weather was moderate.
Sunday night it was raining around the cave. This is at the beginning of the rainy season in Thailand, and it was feared that much more rain would make it more difficult for the children to leave and that the area where the children found themselves was also flooded.
. Among others, the rescue team chose to launch the rescue operation as soon as all equipment and all experts were in place
Thousands of volunteers participated in the rescue operation
A total of 90 divers, 50 foreigners and 40 Thai rescue operation. 18 of them took care of the evacuation of the first four children, while the others had the necessary support roles along the way. Several thousand volunteers participate in the rescue operation in total.
The chief of rescue, Governor Narongsak Osatanakorn, on Sunday sent a big thank you to all those who contributed, both nationally and internationally. He also thanked the Thai king for the inspiration he gave them.
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