(Meet the one-handed champion who is reinventing rock-climbing.) For the next four days the international divers and the Seals worked 12 to 14 hours in the cave inching their way forward a meter at a time in total darkness, surfacing in each cavern to check for the boys. He and his diving partner, ex-fireman Richard Stanton, arrived the Wednesday after the boys went missing on Saturday, and slowly, steadily began pulling themselves upstream, fixing heavy climbing rope along the route for others to follow. British diver John Volanthan, the IT consultant, believed Tham Luang would be no different. Ben Reymenants, a Belgian expat diver from Phuket, was an early volunteer, and told a reporter it was like 'dropping to the bottom of the Colorado River and hand over hand fighting your way upstream.'īecause of the extreme lethality of the sport, cave diving rescuers tend to be the undertakers of the caving community, far more accustomed to retrieving dead bodies-at times their friends-than rescuing live ones. One of the boys had mentioned a popular cavern called Pattaya Beach before he disappeared, but that was another half mile deeper inside, and the divers were thwarted by a torrent of muddy water pouring in from that direction. The Thai Navy Seals, along with a group of European expat technical divers who ran dive shops among Thailand's lush coastal islands were struggling to push past a large cavern that was the at end of the typical tourist route about a half mile inside the cave. The situation at Tham Luang, however, was grim.

Heavy monsoon rains were filling the cave with water, and the team built an elaborate system to pump as much water out as possible. Thai rescue team members survey one of the caverns inside the massive Tham Luang cave system.

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