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  • 5th boy rescued from cave in Thailand

    07/09/2018 6:32:59 AM PDT · by Hostage · 141 replies
    ABC & AP ^ | JULY 9, 2018 | ABC
    A dive team brought a fifth boy out of a cave in Thailand Monday and were working at lightning speed to recover his coach and seven soccer teammates still trapped underground a day after the first four boys were successfully evacuated in an international rescue mission that has gripped the attention of the world. The latest rescue was completed just after 5 p.m. local time, 6 p.m. Eastern time, a source close to the rescue operation said, about six hours after divers entered the jungle cave to resume the operation to save the remaining members of the soccer team that...
  • Explained: Getting soccer players out of Thai cave, safely

    07/04/2018 12:41:48 PM PDT · by BBell · 52 replies
    BANGKOK (AP) — Now that the missing Thai soccer team has been found, the next step is determining how to get the boys and the coach safely out of a partly flooded cave in northern Thailand. A look at the options and why extracting the 12 boys and the coach could take some time:THE CAVE IS HUGETHE CAVE IS HUGETham Luang Nang Non cave in Chiang Rai province stretches under a mountainside for up to 10 kilometers (6 miles), much of it a string of narrow passageways that lead to wide chambers and then back to narrow passageways. The rocky...