A medical assessment of the 12 boys and their football coach stuck in a cave in Northern Thailand for 13 days has concluded that it is too dangerous to try to move the group out Thursday, according to a member of the Thai Navy Seals.
The Seals have also started to pump oxygen into the chamber as world lead rescue workers keep racing against the clock to save the 13 members of the Thai soccer team who have been trapped in the flooded cave for 13 days now.
According to reports, some parts of the cave have been completely flooded, making them impassable at the moment. Rescuers will have to carry them out past those flooded points and some of the openings leading out of the cave are only as big as a single human being.
With some of the boys medically unfit, it will be hard to carry them past those very small openings with almost no visibility. Also, mind you, most of the journey out of the flooded cave will be made under rushing water, in the cold, and it could take hours, something the trapped boys are not strong enough for.
Huge volumes of water are being pumped out of the cave complex each day, but the narrow, winding passages inside are still flooded, meaning diving through the murky water is currently the only way in and out. Rescuers entering the cave complex located in northern Thailand have to navigate dark, flooded tunnels for six hours to reach the team. It takes another five hours to return to the entrance.
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