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All the children were ‘incredibly strong’

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Published on July 16, 2018 with No Comments

Wearing hospital masks and gowns, and waving to family members through protective glass, the freed Thai soccer players were finally able to have a reunion, of sorts.

After almost three weeks trapped in the dark cave away from their loved ones in a cave in northern Thailand, the boys, aged between 11 and 16, were allowed to see their relatives in a carefully controlled environment, as doctors are still concerned about their health.

A foreign diver involved in the mission to save 12 boys and their football coach from a flooded Thai cave has hailed the children as “incredibly strong”, and described their treacherous escape journey as unprecedented, reported BBC. “It is not in any way normal for kids to go cave diving at age 11,” Ivan Karadzic, who runs a diving business in Thailand,  told the BBC in an interview. “They are diving in something considered an extremely hazardous environment in zero visibility, the only light that is in there is the torch light we bring our self,” he added.

The boys, aged from 11 to 16, and their 25-year-old coach, ventured into the Tham Luang cave in northern Thailand on June 23 after football practice and became trapped when heavy rains flooded the cave. Two British divers found them nine days later huddled on a muddy ledge in pitch darkness more than 4 km (2.5 miles) inside the cave system.

Authorities then gathered 90 divers, 50 of them foreigners, to help extract the boys out of a claustrophobic tunnel network that in some places was completely filled with water and so narrow that they could only be squeezed through. Adding to the dangers, most of the boys could not swim, and none had scuba diving experience. However the divers escorted all 12 boys and their coach out by Tuesday.

“I cannot understand how cool these small kids are, you know? Thinking about how they’ve been kept in a small cave for two weeks, they haven’t seen their mums. Incredibly strong kids. Unbelievable almost,” the diver is reported to have said.

 

 

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