Thai military diver dies as window for cave rescue narrows

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Thai military diver dies as window for cave rescue narrows

Mae Sai (Thailand) (AFP) - A former Thai navy diver helping to rescue a football team trapped inside a flooded cave died Friday as officials warned the window of opportunity to free the youngsters is "limited". The diver's death raises serious doubts over the safety of attempting to bring the 12 boys and their football coach out through the cramped, waterlogged passageways of the Tham Luang cave. But Thailand's Navy SEAL commander indicated that rescuers may have little choice but to attempt the tricky extraction of the group, in the first ...

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CHIANG RAI, Thailand (Reuters) - 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 team trapped in a cave, and hoping for a swift end to their harrowing 11-day ordeal. Divers, medics, ...

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Rescuers ponder how to extract boys from flooded Thai cave as more rain due

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Hero diver heads back to Britain as rescuers race to drain water inside Thai cave

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Navy Seals teach Thai boys how to dive ahead of dangerous cave extraction

Thai Navy Seals raced to train 12 young boys and their football coach how to scuba dive on Wednesday ahead of monsoon rains that could force an emergency evacuation. They have been trapped in a vast cave complex for almost two weeks, and experts are currently assessing how they will get them out ...

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MAE SAI, Thailand (AP) — With more rain coming, Thai rescuers are racing to pump out water from a flooded cave before they can extract 12 boys and their soccer coach with minimum risk, officials said Thursday. A firefighter who has been working on draining the water said parts of a passage ...

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Family of Thai cave boy long for birthday party reunion

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Thai diver dies as rescue teams ponder how to bring out trapped boys

CHIANG RAI, Thailand (Reuters) - A former Thai navy diver died working to save 12 boys and their soccer coach trapped inside a flooded cave, highlighting the risks for rescue teams trying to find a safe way to bring the group out after 13 days underground. Dwindling oxygen levels in the cave ...

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