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The Thai boys evacuated from the flooded cave have paid their respects to the former Navy Seal diver who died trying to save them.

The 12 youngsters and their football coach were not told that Saman Kunan had drowned ahead of their dramatic rescue from the Tham Luang cavern just days ago.

His dramatic death convinced the Thai authorities for the need to call back the British cave-diving experts to lead the 'mission impossible' to save the boys, the Daily Mail reports.

But now doctors have decided the boys, aged between 11 and 16, are well enough to learn of the former Thai Navy Seal's personal sacrifice for them.

The youngsters bowed their heads in respect to former Petty Officer Kunan and posed with a picture of him at their hospital ward, where they are being treated for malnutrition, pneumonia, ear infections and exhaustion.

One boy covered his face as he cried.

Ekkapol Chantawong, the 25-year-old football coach who led the ill-fated outing into the cave, wiped away tears with a clenched fist.

"All of the boys who were evacuated from the cave have been informed of the death of one of the rescuers," Dr Jesada Chockbamrungsuk, who is in charge of their treatment, announced.

"All of the boys cried and were in tears when they found out.

"The survivors expressed their thanks to the Thai Navy Seal by bowing to his picture.

"The boys all promised to be a good person and lead a good life to honour him."

He added: "We told them about the death of Navy Seal Kunan as part of the process of preparing the boys to go back home and to lead normal lives."

Former Thai Navy Seal Kunan was honoured at a state funeral yesterday.

Hundreds of mourners paid their respects to the 37-year-old at a special ceremony attended by high-ranking military officials and a representative of the king at the Wat Ban Nong Khu temple in his home town of Chatuphak Piman yesterday (Sat).

Kunan was awarded the Knight Grand Cross (First Class) of the Most Exalted Order of the White Elephant medal and posthumously promoted to Lieutenant Commander.

Dressed in their hospital robes, the youngsters were also seen enjoying a sit-down meal together.

Crowded around a table, the boys ate traditional Thai dishes of rice, pork and soup.

The 12 boys and their football coach also watched a recording of the World Cup final.

"Given that the final will be broadcast quite late our time, and we want the boys to rest and not to be looking at screens too much, we will probably record the final and show it to them later," said an official the Chiang Rai Prachanukroh Hospital.

France played Croatia in the World Cup final in Moscow on Sunday, at 10pm in Thailand.

FIFA had invited the boys and their coach to attend the final in Moscow, but they can not go for medical reasons.

The 12-member Wild Boars team and their coach spent more than two weeks trapped inside a flooded cave in the northern province of Chiang Rai.

They have been recovering in hospital since they were rescued over three days last week and will discharged on Thursday.

The boys, aged 11 to 16, and their 25-year-old coach had planned to explore the Tham Luang cave complex for about an hour after soccer practice on June 23.

But a rainy season downpour flooded the tunnels, trapping them.

Two British divers found them on July 2, squatting on a mound in a flooded chamber several kilometres inside the complex.

Rescuers then had to work out how to get them out through the flooded tunnels.

All 13 were brought to safety in a perilous rescue organised by Thai Navy Seals and an international team of cave-diving experts.

The rescue was greeted with joy by some of the world's biggest football clubs.

Last week, Manchester United invited the Wild Boars to watch a match at their Old Trafford ground.

About 4000 volunteers were on Sunday taking part in a clean-up of the area around the Tham Luang cave.

A park area around the mouth got trampled by the hundreds of rescuers, and media workers, who flocked to help with the mission and to report on it.

Authorities have closed the cave for now but hope to reopen it later as a tourist attraction - with sufficient safeguards in place to make sure no one gets trapped again.

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The Thai boys evacuated from the flooded cave have paid their respects to the former Navy Seal diver who died trying to save them. The 12 youngsters and their football coach were not told that Saman Kunan had drowned ahead of their dramatic rescue from the Tham Luang cavern just days ago.

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All 12 boys from the Wild Boars football team are now free, according to reports on the ground. The final boy emerged into the daylight at around 6pm local time (11pm NZ time).

The coach is understood to also have left the cave. Behind them are a doctor and several Thai Navy SEALs.

The eleventh boy came to the surface at 5.15pm local time (10.15pm NZ time), the tenth at around 4.30pm local time (9.30pm NZ time) and the ninth just minutes earlier at 4.06pm.

Four boys emerged on Monday and four on Sunday.

The Australian's Amanda Hodge has reported that Adelaide anaesthetist Richard Harris has continued to play central role in the rescue, diving each day all the way to where the boys are trapped to check their condition before clearing them to dive.

"He only leaves the cave when the last boy is rescued each day," she said.

It's an extraordinary end to a mission many said was impossible. To rescue a group of children trapped 4km underground and teach them to dive their way out of flooded caves and tunnels the Tham Luang Nang Non cave system far worse.

And yet, the extraordinary was achieved.

Earlier, at least nine ambulances were waiting at the site after the leader of the rescue operation earlier said the aim was to bring out all five of the football group as well as a medic and three Thai Navy Seals, who have been with the trapped boys.

Officials generally waited hours to confirm rescues.

Health experts have given the eight who were rescued on Sunday and Monday a chocolate treat and described them as being in good spirits.

Chiang Rai Governor Narongsak Osatanakorn said Tuesday's intricate and high-risk operation began just after 10am local time and involves 19 divers. A medic and three Thai Navy SEALs who have stayed with the boys on a small, dry shelf deep in the flooded cave will also come out, he said.

"We expect that if there is no unusual condition ... the four boys, one coach, the doctor, and three SEALs who have been with the boys since the first day will come out today," he told a news conference to loud cheering.

Nargonsak said this phase may take longer than the previous two rescue missions, the longer, first missing taking 11 hours.

The eight boys brought out by divers over the previous two days are in "high spirits" and have strong immune systems because they are soccer players, a senior health official said.

Doctors were being cautious because of the infection risk and were isolating the boys in the hospital. They did get a treat, however: bread with chocolate spread that they'd requested.

The plight of the boys and their coach has riveted Thailand and much of the world - from the heart-sinking news they were missing to the first flickering video of the huddle of anxious yet smiling boys when they were found 10 days later by a pair of British divers.

They were trapped in the Tham Luan Nang Non cave that became flooded by monsoon rains while they were exploring it after a soccer practice on June 23.

At a news conference, Jedsada Chokdumrongsuk, permanent secretary at the Public Health Ministry, said the first four boys rescued, aged 12 to 16, are now able to eat normal food, though they can't yet take the spicy dishes favored by many Thais.

Two of the boys possibly have a lung infection but all eight are generally "healthy and smiling," he said.

"The kids are footballers so they have high immune systems," Jedsada said.

"Everyone is in high spirits and are happy to get out. But we will have a psychiatrist to evaluate them."

Rescuers walk toward the entrance to a cave complex where five were still trapped. Photo / AP

It could be at least seven days before they can be released from hospital, Jedsada told a news conference.

Family members have seen at least some of the boys from behind a glass isolation barrier, and Jedsada said doctors may let the boys walk around their beds Tuesday.

It was clear doctors were taking a cautious approach. Jedsada said they were uncertain what type of infections the boys could face "because we have never experienced this kind of issue from a deep cave."

If medical tests show no dangers, after another two days parents will be able to enter the isolation area dressed in sterilized clothing and staying 2 meters away from the boys, said Tosthep Bunthong, Chiang Rai Public Health Chief.

The second group of four rescued on Monday are aged 12 to 14.

Four ambulances and a convoy of other vehicles arrived at the cave site Tuesday morning to prepare for the third phase of the rescue.

Heavy rains in the morning cleared during the day, a reassuring sign for rescuers who have feared monsoon rains could imperil the rescue.

Jedsada Chokdumrongsuk, centre, permanent secretary at the Public Health Ministry, speaks during a press conference at a hospital in Chiang Rai province. Photo / AP

Officials scotched any chance of using tech billionaire Elon Musk's mini sub made of rocket parts to rescue the remaining boys.

Narongsak said he was grateful for Musk's support but the equipment was impractical for the rescue mission.

Musk on Tuesday visited the cave and posted pictures and videos online. He said he left the equipment there in case rescuers could use it in the future.

- additional reporting AP, news.com.au

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Old Farmer's Almanac‏Verified account @almanacJul 10We’ve been riveted by the Thai #cave rescue. All 12 boys and their coach have been rescued. This incident reminds us of another rescue attempt—America’s most famous cave entrapment. Here's tale of this event from The Old Farmer's #Almanac archives https://www.almanac.com/content/trapped-life-americas-most-famous-cave-rescue …

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Now that the missing Thai soccer team has been found, the next step is determining how to get the boys and their coach safely out of a partly flooded cave in northern Thailand.

Here's a look at the options and why extracting the 12 boys and the coach could take some time.

Why the rescue is so challenging
The cave is huge
ThamLuangNang Non cave in Chiang Rai province stretches under a mountainside for up to 10 kilometres, much of it a string of narrow passageways that lead to wide chambers and then back to narrow passageways. The rocky and muddy ground makes several changes in elevation along the way.

The British Cave Rescue Council, which has members taking part in the operation, estimates the boys are around two kilometres into the cave and somewhere between 800 metres to one kilometre below the surface. Other estimates put the boys as far as four kilometres into the cave.
The cave is flooded
Finding the boys took more than nine days, partly because of how difficult it is to move around the cave. The cave floods during Thailand's rainy season and even elite Thai navy SEAL divers were finding it difficult to move through the muddy waters, currents and tight passageways.

"The environment that they're in will have next to no visibility, fairly strong currents, very serious navigation hazards," Doug Munroe, an experienced cave rescuer with the Alberta/B.C. Cave Rescue Network, told CBC News.

At the time the boys were found, water levels in the cave were rising more than 15 centimetres every hour.
Safety first
Thai authorities say they are committed to "100 per cent safety" when they consider how to extract the boys, who don't appear to be in urgent need of medical evacuation. Chiang Rai provincial Gov. Narongsak Osatanakorn said: "We worked so hard to find them and we will not lose them."

The options for rescue

According to Anmar Mirza, national co-ordinator of the National Cave Rescue Commission in the U.S. and editor of the book Manual of U.S. Cave Rescue Technique, the main decision is now whether to try to get the boys out of the cave or to provide them supplies in place.
Supplying them in place
This is possibly the safest option. It would involve bringing food and other supplies to the boys and waiting for water levels to drop, naturally or by pumping out water, or until rescuers can find or create another exit. This could take anywhere from days to weeks to even months as the rainy season typically lasts through October.

The Thai navy is already doing this short term, sending teams with high protein liquid food to feed the boys, keep them company and exploring the cave infrastructure where they are to ensure it is safe. The navy said medics will be sent to help and improve conditions in the cave.

Rescuers are also trying to pump water out of the cave, but the government says some areas cannot be drained.

More monsoon rains are on the way. After a break in the weather in recent days, the Thai Meteorological Department forecast for Chiang Rai calls for light rain through Friday followed by heavy rain starting Saturday and continuing through July 10. Such storms could raise water levels in the cave again and complicate the supply missions or any potential extrication, if one was needed. Interior Minister Anupong Paojinda said as a result of the forecast, the boys may need to swim out using diving gear. He said they would be brought out via the same complicated route through which their rescuers entered.
Creating another entrance
Along with the search efforts inside the cave, rescuers have searched on the mountainside for possible ways into the caverns below. Authorities said those efforts will continue. Backhoes and drilling equipment were sent to the mountain, but creating a shaft large enough to extract the boys would be extremely complicated and could take a long time. The British Cave Rescue Council said the boys are "located in a relatively small space and this would make any potential drilling attempt as a means of rescue very difficult."
Diving them out
Diving would be the fastest, but arguably most dangerous, extraction method. Mirza said that "trying to take non-divers through a cave is one of the most dangerous situations possible, even if the dives are relatively easy."

In this case, the boys can't swim, said Ben Reymenants, a member of the rescue team, in a Skype interview with CBC News.

And by all accounts, the dives into the cave have been a challenge even for experts in caving and diving, who needed days to reach the boys. Getting the boys out could go faster due to the installation of dive lines, extra oxygen tanks left along the way and glow sticks lighting the path. Still, the British Cave Rescue Council said, "Any attempt to dive the boys and their coach out will not be taken lightly because there are significant technical challenges and risks to consider."

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We could see the Hand of God on the miraculous 'Great Escape' of the 'Wild Boar' youth football team, but now it has been confirmed by missionaries serving in Thailand.

The unknown and extraordinary details of the miracle Jesus did in Thailand in recent days:

1. The boys and their football coach were found and rescued in the most impossible of situations.

2. The rope the British diver was using to guide them into the cave ended, so he went up to catch air and at that moment he found the boys sitting in front of him! He said that if the rope was longer, it would have continued underwater and he would not have found the boys and their coach!

3. Only one of the boys knew English and could communicate with the British diver. He is the only Christian in the group and he learned the language through a missionary project that takes place in his small church.

4. The monsoon rains held off during the rescue mission for three days and did not hamper the operation, although it rained in surrounding areas.

5. As soon as the last diver left the cave (after all the boys were safe) the pump that was pumping out water from the cave broke (It would have been a disaster if this had happened before the rescue was complete!!!)

6. It rained all morning following the rescue and the cave is now completely flooded.

7. All the boys were rescued and are in surprising health, which has baffled the Buddhist doctors. "We do not know how to explain this" they said.

8. The rescue action required people working together through linguistic and cultural barriers. Important decisions were made in consensus to see the plans were implemented. The rescue is a credit to the excellent work and determination of a team made up of so many different people and nationalities. The only Brazilian volunteer in the operation was the missionary, Tati Araujo, who translated conversations between the English and Thai divers, authorities and foreign military.

9. The Church of Jesus Christ throughout the world, united to cry to God for His intervention in the impossible plight of these young men. Disciples from every corner of the earth prayed, hoping that the Lord could make the impossible happen... and it did!

Without doubt, God made this miracle that the world witnessed and that has touched so many people's hearts! Now is the time to celebrate the power and grace of God, who, unlike the Buddhist rites, did not need offerings or sacrifices, but in love, He launched Himself once more in history to rescue those who were lost.

May our response be gratitude and worship to the only God who has all the power in His resurrected hands.

This article was written by Ben and Kiesha Jones who are missionaries to Thailand from Omaha, Nebraska, USA. They aim to draw the impossible out of people, inspiring them to fulfil the dreams and the visions that God has put inside them. * Graphic: Nicole Rerk, Shutterstock

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MAE SAI, Thailand - Improbably enough, most of the escapes went flawlessly.

But on trip No. 11, to save one of the last soccer teammates stuck for 18 days deep inside the cave, something went dangerously wrong.

Rescuers inside an underground chamber felt a tug on the rope - the sign that one of the 12 boys or their coach would soon emerge from the flooded tunnels.

"Fish on," the rescuers signaled, recalled Maj. Charles Hodges of the United States Air Force, mission commander for the American team on site.

Fifteen minutes went by. Then 60. Then 90.

As the rescuers waited anxiously, a diver navigating the 11th teammate through the underwater maze lost hold of the guide rope. With visibility near zero, he couldn't find the line again. Slowly, he backtracked, going deeper into the cave to search for the rope, before the rescue could resume.

At last, the survivor got through, safely.

It was a frightening moment in what had been a surprisingly smooth rescue of the soccer team, the Wild Boars, who had survived the murky darkness of Thailand's Tham Luang Cave, sometimes by licking water off the cold limestone walls.

"The whole world was watching, so we had to succeed," said Kaew, a Thai Navy SEAL diver who shook his head in amazement at how every one of the rescues worked. "I don't think we had any other choice."

Interviews with military personnel and officials detailed a Thailand cave rescue operation assembled from an amalgam of muscle and brainpower from around the world: 10,000 people participated, including 2,000 soldiers, 200 divers and representatives from 100 government agencies.

It took plastic cocoons, floating stretchers and a rope line that hoisted the players and coach over outcroppings. The boys had been stranded on a rocky perch more than a mile underground. Extracting them required long stretches underwater, in bone-chilling temperatures, and keeping them submerged for around 40 minutes at a time. The boys were even given anti-anxiety medication to avert panic attacks.

Inside the Final Stretch

A SEAL team member described the obstacles the rescuers faced after the boys made it to the rescue base inside the cave, recreated in the cross-section diagrams below.

1 Rescue base After the rescuers emerged from a mile-long, partially submerged stretch, they entered the rescue base in Chamber 3.

Second medical checkpoint
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"The most important piece of the rescue was good luck," said Maj. Gen. Chalongchai Chaiyakham, the deputy commander of the Third Army region, which helped the operation. "So many things could have gone wrong, but somehow we managed to get the boys out."

"I still can't believe it worked," he said.

The risks were underscored on July 6 when Saman Gunan, a retired Thai Navy SEAL, died in an underwater passageway. Three SEAL frogmen were hospitalized after their air tanks ran low. Swift currents pushed divers off-track for hours at a time, sometimes tearing off their face masks.

More than 150 members of the Thai Navy SEALs, outfitted with improvised equipment sometimes held together with duct tape, helped create the escape route. A crew of foreign and Thai cave divers courted death every time they explored Tham Luang's cramped chambers. Overseas military teams brought search-and-rescue equipment. The Americans provided logistics, while British divers navigated the most hazardous stretches.

Thailand's new king donated supplies, and people across the nation volunteered in any way they could, cooking meals for rescuers, operating pumps to suck water out of the cave and hunting for hidden cracks in the limestone formations through which the Wild Boars could perhaps be lifted to safety.

But, most of all, the operation to save the team of 11- to 16-year old boys and their coach, said officials and divers, took bravery.

"I don't know of any other rescue that put the rescuer and the rescuee in so much danger over a prolonged period of time, unless it is something along the lines of firefighters going into the World Trade Center knowing that the building is on fire and is going to collapse," Major Hodges said.

Tham Luang Cave is a rare place where a person can become completely isolated. There is no GPS, no Wi-Fi, no cellphone service. The last known survey was conducted in the 1980s by a French caving society, but many of its deepest recesses remain unmapped. Spelunkers consider the cave one of the most challenging in the world.

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When the search began, estimates of distances between key points were inaccurate and the location of landmarks uncertain, clouding even the most basic assumptions. Nevertheless, officials knew about Tham Luang's dangers well and had placed a warning sign at the cave's mouth against entering during the rainy season, when flash floods could inundate its chambers.

Starting as a Birthday Party

Rain was forecast for June 23, the day the Wild Boars made their excursion to Tham Luang, but the boys had ventured into the cave before. They left their bikes and soccer cleats and set off with flashlights, water and snacks bought to celebrate one of the boy's birthdays.

The last of the boys would not emerge until July 10.

By the end of the first night, their parents were frantic. A contingent of Navy SEAL divers arrived 24 hours later, and began pushing their way into the flooded cave at 4 a.m. the next day.

But the Thai frogmen were accustomed to tropical open water, not the gloomy, cold currents racing through the cave. They lacked the equipment, much less the expertise needed for caves, where divers cannot just rise to the surface should something go wrong.

On June 25, Ruengrit Changkwanyuen, a Thai regional manager for General Motors, was among the first volunteer cave divers to show up at the scene. Dozens would follow, from places including Finland, Britain, China, Australia and the United States.

Even for someone as experienced in cave diving as Mr. Ruengrit, the force of the water in Tham Luang shocked him, tearing his mask off when he failed to position himself directly facing the current.

"It was like walking into a strong waterfall and feeling the water rushing at you," he said. "It was a horizontal climb against the water with every move."

The Navy SEAL and volunteer divers painstakingly penetrated the cave, securing guidelines needed to ensure their safety. They found footprints that hinted at the soccer team's trail. But as monsoon rains inundated the area, the porous limestone cave absorbed water like a sponge. Once accessible caverns flooded entirely.

"If you put your hand in front of you, it just disappeared," said Kaew, the Thai Navy SEAL member. "You couldn't see anything."

A Chilly, Slippery Trap

Deep within the cave, the water was so cold that the Thai divers' teeth chattered while they rested during 12-hour shifts. Lacking proper helmets, the SEAL divers taped a medley of flashlights to their improvised headgear.

On the 10th day, July 2, with little hope of discovering anything but bodies, a pair of British divers working to extend a network of guide ropes popped up near a narrow ledge.

Suddenly, they saw 13 emaciated people perched in the dark. The Wild Boars had run out of food and light but had survived by sipping the condensation from the cave walls.

Elation at their discovery, however, quickly turned to anxiety. Capt. Anand Surawan, a deputy commander of the Thai Navy SEALs who was running an operational center in Tham Luang, suggested that the boys and their coach might have to stay in the cave for four months until the rainy season subsided.

Three Thai SEAL divers went missing during the operation for 23 hours, and when they finally reappeared, they were so weak from a lack of oxygen that they were rushed to the hospital.

Four days after the boys were found, Mr. Saman, the retired Navy SEAL member who left his airport security job to volunteer, died as he was placing air tanks on an underwater supply route. His family declined an autopsy, but some Thai officials said that he ran out of air in his tanks. Others believe he succumbed to hypothermia.

"I'm very proud of him," said Mr. Saman's father, Wichai Gunan, a car mechanic. "He is a hero who did all he could to help the boys."

Meanwhile, efforts to drain the cave, through pumps and a makeshift dam, began producing results. Crags and outcroppings emerged from the murk. The most waterlogged passage, which had taken five hours to navigate in the early going, could now be traversed in two hours with the help of guide ropes.

Racing the Rain to Start the Escape

By last weekend, the rescuers were eager to act. Rain was back in the forecast. The oxygen level where the boys were sheltering had dipped to 15 percent. At 12 percent, the air might turn deadly.

The operation kept shifting with each variable: the water, the air, the mud, even the mental and physical state of the young soccer players. Because the boys could not swim, they needed full-face masks into which a rich oxygen mix was pumped.

But the masks that the American team brought with them were sized for adults. So they tested the gear on volunteer children in a local swimming pool, and discovered that by pulling the five straps as tight as possible, they would work.

The 30-strong American team, which was integral to the planning, recommended that each child be confined in a flexible plastic cocoon, called a Sked, which is marketed as a rescue stretcher and is a standard part of the Air Force team's gear.

Methods Used During the Boys' Rescue

Divers strapped each boy inside a stretcher and shuttled him underwater.

Rescuers slid each stretcher on top of water hoses over slippery and steep terrain.

Teams of up to eight rescuers carried each boy on a stretcher to pass through the cave.

Each stretcher was attached to a suspended rope over a part of the cave with jagged terrain.

Rescuers passed each stretcher from one group to another down a steep, wet slope.

Each boy was guided on a stretcher through deep water using a raft.

British cave divers navigated the wrapped boys through the trickiest underwater passages, while monitoring for air bubbles that proved they were breathing.

Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha of Thailand said the boys had been given anti-anxiety medication.

"They just had to lay there and be comfortable," said Major Hodges, the leader of the American team.

Once the boys completed the underwater portion of their journey, which took around two hours, the going was easier - though still challenging. Navy SEAL members formed relay teams to lift the Wild Boars down steep slopes on which every step was slippery.

At one point, the plastic bundles containing the teammates were placed on the hoses for the water pumps, which acted as an impromptu slide. Rope lines hoisted the soccer team aloft so they could swing past particularly craggy parts of the cave. In one leg of the escape, the cocoons were placed on floating stretchers, and Thai frogmen pushed them along.

Divine Protection

Kaew, the Thai Navy SEAL member, was standing in the chilly flood of the cave on Tuesday night, swallowing his last bite of seafood-and-pineapple pizza, when he heard the yelled warning: More water was coming fast - get out now.

For three grueling days, he and his comrades had been hefting the 12 boys and their coach one by one through the series of slick and steep caverns to safety.

Just moments before the alarm, he had welcomed back the SEAL team that stayed with the boys for eight days on the rock where they had been trapped deep within Tham Luang's flooded maze.

"The boys were safe, and my friends were safe," said Kaew, who was not authorized to give his full name. "I thought, finally, the mission is a success."

Then, when it was seemingly all over, a drainage pump to minimize flooding failed. What had been waist-high water surged to chest level in a vicious torrent where Kaew was standing, about a half-mile inside the cave's mouth. Kaew, who had no scuba gear with him, scrambled to higher ground, barely escaping the final deluge.

It was a chaotic finale to the rescue. Many of the divers and residents of the nearby northern Thai town of Mae Sai saw the last-minute flood as a sign that divine protection had ceased only after all were safe.

For the entire mission, Kaew had wrapped a Buddha amulet hanging on his neck with waterproof tape. "The cave is sacred," he said. "It was protected until the very end."

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The 12 young footballers who were saved from a Thai cave after an international rescue effort are mourning a former Navy Seal who died in the operation.

Volunteer diver Saman Gunan lost his life on 6 July while installing oxygen tanks in the flooded cave complex.

He has since been hailed as a hero around the world.

The boys and their 25-year-old coach were told of his sacrifice only on Saturday, when doctors decided they were strong enough to process the news.

"All cried and expressed their condolences by writing messages on a drawing of Lieutenant Commander Saman and observed one minute of silence for him," said Jedsada Chokdamrongsuk, permanent secretary at the health ministry.

Photos showed the "Wild Boars" football team, who are being monitored in hospital, gathered solemnly around a picture of the diver.

"They also thanked him and promised to be good boys," the health ministry said.

The boys, aged 11-16, were pulled from the cavern by Thai Navy Seals and foreign cave diving experts, in a three-day rescue push that ended on 10 July.

They are expected to leave Chiang Rai Prachanukroh Hospital on Thursday, though many are still on antibiotics.

They will be watched for signs of psychological distress, which may only become evident in the months to come. The boys have been advised against giving media interviews, which experts say could trigger a post-traumatic reaction.

The youngsters and their coach had been invited to the final of the 2018 World Cup by its organiser, Fifa, but had to decline on medical grounds.

As the live game will be broadcast quite late on Sunday 15 July (at 22:00 Thai time), doctors said they will enjoy a recording later.

The boys' nail-biting tragedy-turned-survival-story has been followed by millions worldwide since 23 June, when they walked into the Tham Luang cave after football practice - only to be trapped by monsoon floods.

They had spent nine days in the cave with little food or light when British divers first reached them on Monday 2 July.

Scores of volunteers and almost 100 divers joined the effort to free them, which saw the boys sedated and carried out on military stretchers.

Some of the specialists have expressed shock that Saman, 38, was the only person killed in the perilous venture.

His widow told the BBC: "He's been praised as a hero because of who he was. He loved helping others, doing charity work and getting things done."

Around 4,000 volunteers are working to clean up the area around the now-infamous cave, which was battered by relays of rescuers, volunteers and news crews.

While the cave system has been closed, officials have said it could be reopened as a tourist attraction - with strict safeguards to prevent future disasters.

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The 12 young footballers who were saved from a Thai cave after an international rescue effort are mourning a former Navy Seal who died in the operation. Volunteer diver Saman Gunan lost his life on 6 July while installing oxygen tanks in the flooded cave complex.