The search for twelve football players and their coach who have been stuck in the Tham Luang Nang Non cave near Chiang Rai since Saturday has not yet yielded any results. Time is running out because they have nothing to eat, there can be a lack of oxygen, and it is also cold in the cave.
Divers do their best, but they are hampered by the rising water. The search now focuses on a higher space in the cave. Meanwhile, the parents are starting to get desperate.
British and American cave experts have traveled to Thailand to help. Laos has also sent divers and a rescue team. More than a thousand men, mainly soldiers from the Thai navy, are involved in the rescue operation. Despite the rain and the rising water level, they continued to work. In some places in the cave, the water levels rose as much as 15 centimeters per hour. That made it more difficult for the divers to squeeze through passageways. The murky water and mudslides limit visibility for the divers.
Today, new passages are being drilled and other entrances are being sought on the hills above the cave.
According to a cave expert, there is a chance that the missing are still alive. The cave system has several larger chambers, which are probably not completely under water yet. It is suspected that the children have walked deeper and deeper into the cave due to the rising of the water.
Source: Bangkok Post
Just received a message that they had to stop for the time being due to difficult circumstances
how horrible! I hope that those children are found alive.