PHOTO: Army doctor Colonel Pak Loharachun on Wednesday prepares contained in the cave to treat minor wounds sustained by the soccer staff members – Thai Navy SEALS
“The fittest of the survivors would be the first to come out, others will follow,” Narongsak Osotanakorn, Chiang Rai governor and head of the rescue operations, said yesterday.
Rescuers don’t need to delay their exit due to upcoming rains and the chance of more flooding in cave.
The 13 youngsters and their 25 year outdated coach are actually familiarising themselves with diving gear as rescue planners concluded yesterday that they will have to dive through floodwaters to get out of the Tham Luang cave, where they have been stranded since June 23.
The easing of the flood state of affairs has raised the prospects of serving to the thirteen footballers come out of the cave the place they have spent 11 days.
“The floodwater levels have been dropping by one centimetre per hour. If we can preserve this momentum, it should be protected enough to deliver the youngsters out soon,” Narongsak stated.
The US Cave Rescue Commission’s nationwide coordinator Anmar Mirza mentioned that while diving was the quickest choice to convey the survivors out, it was additionally the “most dangerous” possibility. But the choice of letting the survivors keep inside the cave till the floodwaters utterly receded was yesterday ruled out amid the numerous threat of impending heavy downpours that would once more go away the cave flooded.
The 10 kilometre lengthy cave in Chiang Rai province is generally flooded between July and November yearly. On Monday night time, skilled cave divers from Britain found the lacking football staff at a spot about 5km from the cave’s entrance.
The 13 survivors will keep put at their current location while detailed preparations are being made for their protected evacuation. They have been joined by Royal Thai Navy SEALs and are also supplied with delicate food, water, mild, medication, thermal blankets and diving gear.
The survivors yesterday began to discover ways to wear full-face masks and follow respiratory. Medics, together with Army doctor Colonel Pak Loharachun, have accomplished well being checks for all team members and found them comparatively wholesome.
One footballer asked in a video posted yesterday, “Can we exit today?” Pak advised the boys to be affected person, explaining that despite his diving expertise it took him six hours to move from the third chamber of the cave to the present location of the survivors.
The third chamber of the cave, which is about two kilometres from the doorway, is now operating as the forward command of the rescue operations. Lighting and communication units have been put in there and in addition equipped with oxygen tanks, medication and all different essential provides. From the third chamber to the flooded T-junction is a distance of about 800 metres. From that intersection, there is a slim and utterly submerged passage that requires rescue groups to dive to get through. Shocking there was almost five metres as of press time. After getting out of this narrow passage, rescue groups have to climb and hike a stretch of four hundred metres. This zone is dry. Then, they need to dive for about another one hundred thirty metres to succeed in the so-called Pattaya Beach. Then the team must stroll additional over the seashore before making another 400 metre long dive to achieve the slope the place the survivors have gathered.
All these survivors should be taught to swim and dive before being escorted out. Even with diving experts by their aspect, the team should dive and swim on their very own at some factors within the journey out of the cave.
A rescue staff from the United States Indo-Pacific Command has vowed to help the operations on the Tham Luang cave until all thirteen survivors are safely introduced out..