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Trapped Thai team gets diving lessons in anticipation of extraction from cave

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Trapped Thai team gets diving lessons in anticipation of extraction from cave

Hours after military personnel found the missing Thailand football team who were trapped in a cave in the northern part of the country, reports say the lads and their coach are being given crash courses in swimming and diving.

The crash course according to reports is part of preparations to extract the young soccer squad trapped in the cave as rescue teams are keen to end the harrowing 11-day ordeal experienced by the boys.

Reports say a team of divers, medics, counsellors and Thai navy SEALS are with the 12 schoolboys and their 25-year-old coach, providing medicines and food while experts assessed conditions for getting them out of the cave.

“The water is very strong and space is narrow. Extracting the children takes a lot of people,” Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwan told reporters.

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“Now we are teaching the children to swim and dive,” he said adding that if water levels fell and the flow weakened, they would be taken out quickly.

The boys are still trapped in the cave as they await the reduction of the water level after flooding occasioned by heavy monsoon rains in the Chiang Rai province.

The Thai military on Tuesday said they would provide the team with four months’ worth of food and give them diving lessons while continuing to drain the Tham Luang cave complex.

 

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