Navy Seals give trapped Thai boys diving lessons in hopes they can exit cave soon
Thai Officials have dismissed as speculation reports that the boys could be trapped for up to four months, although supplies have been prepared for that length of time
Chiang Rai, Thailand — Rescue teams in northern Thailand were giving crash courses in swimming and diving on Wednesday as part of complex preparations to extract a young soccer squad trapped in a cave, and hoping for a swift end to their harrowing 11-day ordeal. Divers, medics, counsellors and Thai Navy Seals were with the 12 schoolboys and their coach, providing medicines and food while experts assessed conditions for getting them out safely, a task the government said would not be easy. "The water is very strong and space is narrow. Extracting the children takes a lot of people," deputy prime minister Prawit Wongsuwan told reporters. "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. By late on Tuesday, about 120-million litres of water had been pumped out — about 1.6-million every hour. It was unclear what the options were to get the team out of the Tham Luang caves in Chiang Rai p...
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