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Thai Cave Rescue: Divers Re-up Oxygen Supply, Total 8 Boys Out

  • Acting Chiang Rai Governor Narongsak Osatanakorn said the second rescue phase began at 11:00 a.m. Thai time.

    Acting Chiang Rai Governor Narongsak Osatanakorn said the second rescue phase began at 11:00 a.m. Thai time. | Photo: Reuters

Published 9 July 2018
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“The boys’ strength, the plan — today we are ready like before. And we will do it faster because we are afraid of the rain.”

According to Thai authorities, four boys were successfully rescued Monday during the second phase of the operation to get the 8 remaining members of a youth soccer team and their coach out of the flooded Tham Luang Nang Non cave.

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Acting Chiang Rai Governor Narongsak Osatanakorn said the process began at 11:00 a.m. Thai time, adding that officials “hope to hear good news in the next few hours. All conditions are still as good as they were yesterday,” the governor said in a news conference.

“The boys’ strength, the plan — today we are ready like before. And we will do it faster because we are afraid of the rain.” This brings the total number of boys who have been safely removed from the cave to 8, leaving four others and the team's coach for a third extraction mission. 

The first four soccer players were transported from the flooded cave Sunday after divers launched a dangerous mission to begin the rescue process for the 12 boys and their soccer coach, who have been trapped underground for more than two weeks, a Thai official said Sunday.

“This morning they said they were hungry and wanted to eat khao pad grapao,” Narongsak said, referring to the rescued boys requesting a popular Thai dish of meat fried with chili and basil and served over rice.

Billionaire Elon Musk took to social media to offer assistance following the discovery of the group last week.

The tech maven later stating that a team of engineers from his Space X rocket company would build a “tiny kid-size submarine” that could transport the boys.

The Boring Company chief explained that the proposed submarine would be light enough to be carried by two divers and small enough to get through narrow cave gaps.

The 12 boys — ranging in ages from 11 to 16 — had entered the complicated cave network with their 25-year-old coach on June 23 and became stranded, and missing for nine days, after monsoon rains flood the system.

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