PAUSE AND THINK: Why was it so difficult to rescue the boys?

Scholastic Action Magazine May 2023


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DANGEROUS DIVING


As the boys slept, their worried families called for help. A local rescue group rushed to the cave. It had started raining heavily.
At the cave's opening, The rescuers saw the swirling water. They knew the boys must be trapped. Once the cave flooded, the water wouldn't go down until the end of the rainy season. That was months away. The rescue team sprang into action. An expert (caver) was called in. He had created maps of the cave. A team of Thai navy SEALs also arrived. The SEALs are highly trained divers. But they didn't have the gear or experience to dive through a flooded cave. On June 26, the rescue workers started to lose hope. Were the boys even still alive? They had been trapped for three days. The water was cold and (murky.) The (current) was strong. Only a few people in the world could dive in water like that. If those divers didn't come right away, the boys would die.​