Rescue update of the cave of Thailand: Boys' football team and coach found living in Tham Luang Nang No cave today 2018-7-2

MAE SAI, Thailand – Rescue divers found Monday 12 boys and their football coach living in a cave after they had disappeared more than a week earlier in the north of Thailand. The rescue teams spent a good part of Monday's day preparing what was hoped to be the last effort in their team search. It was, and a few hours later, the provincial governor of Chiang Rai, Narongsak Osatanakorn, confirmed that all 13 missing individuals had been found alive. Their conditions were not clear immediately.

"We found that all 13 were safe," Osatanakorn said, according to the French news agency AFP. "We will take care of them until they can move."

Divers focused Monday on a line of rope and placed oxygen tanks along the narrow passageway that led them to boys, aged 11 to 16, and their 25-year-old coach who disappeared when Floods on June 23, Tham Luang Nang Thai Cave

SEAL divers from the Thai Navy and rescuers from other countries took their first steps in the narrow passage early Monday after crossing Sunday. a key piece whose troubled waters had previously blocked their progress.

Narongsak said that the passage that divers were going through was going up in some places and down in others and that it was extremely narrow, which made it difficult for divers to cross with all their equipment.

and again by muddy water by raising deposition sections of the cave and forcing them to retreat for security reasons. When the water level fell Sunday, divers took a more methodical approach, deploying a line of rope and additional oxygen reserves

The Facebook page of the SEALs indicates that since Sunday evening, the divers reached a turn. passage half a mile long splits in two directions. The divers aim for a sandy chamber on higher ground in the cave, where they believe the group would be safe.

On Monday, they again used the methodical approach to safety before crossing the passage.

Narongsak said on Monday that stringing and deploying oxygen tanks along the way allowed divers to operate.

Relief forecasts have been high since Sunday, but authorities have avoided setting a timetable for search and rescue operations. They remained optimistic publicly.

"In theory, human beings can last 30 days (without food)," Narongsak told reporters Monday. "We hope and believe that is the case We all still have hope."

He said that it was expected that in their state, the boys could not initially move their limbs, but that medical teams would treat them first on square. He said that the diving teams included doctors who were already in the cave. There was no immediate information on the state of the team inside the cave.

In addition to the divers, the teams worked to pump the water and divert the groundwater. Other efforts have focused on finding mountain-side wells that could serve 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 have been found and the explorers have been able to descend into some, but until now it is not clear if they lead to something useful.