I went to high school with a foreign exchange student from Thailand. She lives
in the USA. She just sent this:
Quoted from The Nation Newspaper, Bangkok: It is not known why the team
ventured into the cave, but they had been there before -- some of the boys knew
it well. They went into the cave after football practice at school.
They are believed to have walked several kilometres into the winding
network of passageways to an elevated, airy sandbank called 'Pattaya Beach'.
That means they would have had to pass through at least one narrow slit in
the rock now submerged in muddy water.
Then the heavy rains started and water likely rushed in through the cave's
main entrance while simultaneously seeping through porous limestone walls.
"It's like filling your bathtub with 15 different hoses at the same time,
and then you have a single drain... and the drain can only do so much," Josh
Morris, founder of Chiang Mai Rock Climbing Adventures, who is helping the
rescue effort, told AFP.
One reporter stated that the water rises 1 foot every 3 seconds.
Bill Steele
cwilliamste...@gmail.com
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