The drama in Thailand hopes for a happy ending

Now or never! Rescuers decided yesterday to release the boys imprisoned in a flooded Thai cave. They arrived after carefully evaluating the situation and found that the water in the cave was drained to the lowest possible level. For the rainy season, it can only go up. It was not possible to wait another day

Out of the cave, all the excess staff showed, only the divers who went to pick up the boys and paramedics who were waiting for them. The journalists also had to move away from the entrance. "It's day D. The boys are ready to face any challenge," said the chief of the relief, Narongsak Osottanakorn . If everything goes as planned, the release should not last more than three days. The event involved 13 divers from abroad. Ten went to the cave as the first, the three later joined, waiting for them on the road. Other divers, including Thais, are ready to support them.

Each boy is accompanied by two divers who carry oxygen. For boys, it's a vital test because they have to get embarrassed, dive and lie, all in the dark and with a mask on their face. The most difficult step that they have to face is a 30 meter stretch that is so narrow that the deflators will have to bend the oxygen bottles to cross it. The complexity of the situation is also evidenced by the fact that the diver, who had been carrying oxygen to the boys a few days ago, had just died. His colleagues expressed his death: "We will not allow your sacrifice to reach anything!"

The diver first managed to rescue two boys whose cave ambulances were taken to the hospital. Later, they saved two others. Everyone is in good health. Others want to go out this morning. Rescuers first decided to remove the weaker boys because conditions were better at the beginning of the event. The children could follow their own path through the drainage of the water, so that the journey was faster. (19659011) Open the gallery