The cave (Tham Luang cave ) complex extends several miles and has wide chambers and narrow passageways with rocky outcrops and changes in elevation. The cave, cut into a mountainside near the border with Myanmar, can flood severely during the rainy season, which runs from June to October. Officials said that tourists trapped there by past floods have been rescued after the waters receded.
Muddy water rising to the ceiling of one of the chambers has prevented Thai navy SEAL divers from progressing farther into the cave to where they think the 12 schoolboys and their coach, who went missing Saturday, may be sheltering.
Prayer offerings are displayed as rescue workers continue the search for the young soccer team and coach. Relatives performed a morning ritual in which they called out for the missing. They played drums and gongs and two relatives held fishing nets as a symbolic way to fish out lost spirits from the cave.
[In Picture]Thai soldiers relay electric cable deep into the Tham Luang cave at the Khun Nam Nang Non Forest Park in Chiang Rai, Thailand, on June 26, 2018, during a rescue operation for a missing children's soccer team and their coach.
The team of 12 boys and the coach were located, all alive, on 2 July 2018, 10 pm local time. The group was discovered by British divers Richard Stanton and John Volanthen about 400 m (440 yds) from a chamber nicknamed Pattaya Beach. The elevated rock where the boys and their coach were found is about 4 km (2.5 mi) from the mouth of the cave.
- From internet resource.
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