Thailand - FOUND ALIVE - Officials Believe 12 Boys And Coach Trapped In Cave , 23 June 2018

[Elainera]

Sorry, terrible thought, if the team had perished (drowned) when the cave flooded wouldn't they have found bodies by now?

 

[Jennifer17]

It sounds like they are making progress.

 

[Jennifer17]

Sorry, terrible thought, if the team had perished (drowned) when the cave flooded wouldn't they have found bodies by now?

I am not sure. We don't really know how many chambers there are or how deep the caves go, I think.

 

[Elainera]

It sounds like they are making progress.

It does!

 

[creepcrusher]

Sorry, terrible thought, if the team had perished (drowned) when the cave flooded wouldn't they have found bodies by now?

Well with them draining the water and so far sunshine today it’s very possible. The water is very murky, but there are so many of them I would think if that happened they’d had found one of them.

 

[Cryptic]

Sorry, terrible thought, if the team had perished (drowned) when the cave flooded wouldn't they have found bodies by now?

Sadly, the bodies could be in a flooded chamber, but not washed down into other chambers that the rescue teams have been able to search.

On the brighter side, a village elder in the area reported that a group of foreign cave explorers were trapped in the cave for seven days in the early 1970s, but emerged alive.

Other bright side factors are that the boys are physically fit, used to following instructions, working with each other, had some food with them, and that cold / wet conditions (hypothermia risk) are not issues.

 

[Amonet]

I hope today will be the day they are found, and I hope it will be a rescue!

Thanks for sharing all the tweets and links!

 

[MysteryMama]

I hope they are found, this has been on my mind so much!

 

[Jax49]

Can't stop checking on these kids. Please, let today be the day for good news.

 

[Jax49]

Apologies if already posted.

Divers progress in search for missing Thai children trapped in cave

Rescue divers reached several kilometres inside a flooded cave Saturday where 12 boys and their football coach have been trapped for a week, offering a flicker of hope for the harrowing search.

But Navy SEAL divers reached a T-junction in the depths of the cave just one to two miles from where the boys are believed to be, Chiang Rai governor Narongsak Osottanakorn said.

Divers reached the same spot earlier in the week but were forced back by rushing floodwaters.

 

[mom2four717]

Just reading about the cave makes me a bit panicky. The divers knowing they
might bump into a deceased child in the dark water.......arrrgh!
The rescue teams are brave hard headed people.

 

[Trinitee]

Australians On Way To Find Thai Soccer Team Lost In Cave

12 boys and their coach have been lost in the cave for a week.

Australian Federal Police and Defence Force personnel are being deployed to Thailand to assist in the search for 12 boys and their soccer coach missing in a flooded cave system for over a week.

Six AFP Specialist Response Group members who have search and rescue and cave diving skills are on their way to Chiang Rai aboard a Royal Australian Air Force C-17 transport aircraft.

Australians On Way To Find Soccer Team L... - (news/world) | ten daily

 

[Hazelnutty]

These boys & their rescuers are on my mind.

 

[Jax49]

Time is running out for teen soccer team trapped in cave

Thai Navy Seals with diving gear have swum some five kilometers (3 miles) into the pitch-black passageways to try to find the boys and returned without a sense of where they might be. There’s not been a sound from the missing boys all this time.

In the vigils that have grown with every day of fruitless searches, families and friends have prayed, made offerings, and held fast to the possibility of signs of life. Some, enduring the torture of such a long, silent wait, have collapsed in the mud with exhaustion, and been sent to the hospital.

bbm

This breaks my heart.

 

[Trinitee]

Thai cave search for missing soccer team gathers pace

Experts from across the world join mission as receding flooding offers opportunity

The effort to find 12 boys and their soccer coach, who have been missing in a cave in Thailand for a week, has picked up pace, as more experts from across the world joined the mission.

A break in the rain has eased flooding in the system of caverns in the northern province of Chiang Rai. The search effort has been going slowly largely because flooding had blocked rescuers from going through chambers to get deeper into the cave.

Pumping out water had not solved the problem, so greater effort has been made to find shafts on the outside of the cave that might serve as a back door to the blocked-off areas where the missing may be sheltering.

Thai cave search for missing soccer team gathers pace

 

[Trinitee]

Drilling near cave's tail end to begin today

Shafts being opened close to locations where missing team thought sheltering.

A RESCUE TEAM will begin drilling a shaft near the tail end of Tham Luang Cave today to boost efforts to save 12 teenagers and their football coach.

Flash floods are believed to have stranded the 13-strong group inside the cave since last Saturday.

As floodwaters have blocked rescue efforts that started from the cave’s only known entrance, rescue planners have turned to drilling in a bid to open new access points close to where the group is believed to be located.

As of press time, Royal Thai Navy SEAL divers have managed to reach only as far as the third chamber from the cave’s mouth.

Drilling the shaft near the tail end of the cave may allow rescue planners to see the latter part of the 10-kilometre-long complex and send food to the missing.

Drilling near cave’s tail end to begin today - The Nation

 

[creepcrusher]

RSBM

Drilling near cave's tail end to begin today

Shafts being opened close to locations where missing team thought sheltering.

Also per article:
‘Sound will raise their spirits’

“I believe they are still alive. When they hear drilling sound, they will realise that help is coming, their spirits will rise,” he said.

Suchatvee said Tham Luang Cave was made of limestone, which meant drilling should be easy if the equipment was properly installed and careful analysis conducted.

“Rescue operations are difficult because of continued downpours. But with engineering technology, equipment and all-out rescue efforts, hope remains that all missing will be saved,” he said.

 

[2Hope4]

Hanging onto that thread of hope.... please let it be soon!

 

[creepcrusher]

Hanging onto that thread of hope.... please let it be soon!

I’m still glued to Twitter and now it’s less active since most people there are sleeping at this time. It’s hard to be patient. Can you imagine how the parents feel? God bless the rescue workers. They don’t want to stop working and some of them are collapsing from exhaustion. I think if I were there I’d be one of those people. It would be hard to stop, but you have to take care of yourself to be effective. Still praying for a miracle, but I’m losing faith since they haven’t heard a peep from the boys.

 

[Jax49]

Live Updates
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Water pumped from cave

This photo shows water being pumped from the flooded cave after a soccer team and their coach went missing a week ago. The search has picked up pace today thanks to the heavy rain relenting.

Families cling to hope as Thai cave rescue enters day seven - live