Thai soccer team rescue: Former Navy diver dies while exiting flooded caves

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Former sergeant Samarn Unan, formerly SEAL, died at 2:00 in the afternoon. Friday at local time (2:00 am ET Thursday) due to lack of air trying to get back to a command center in the depths of the ground, said Lieutenant Governor Passakorn Boonyalak,

The command center is two kilometers from the cave, where the young football team and their coach have been trapped for almost two weeks.



Unan, who was about 30 years old, returned from the supply of oxygen tanks to the cave, where the boys let the air out under the water.

"Dives are always full of risks," said Navy chief Admiral SEAL. Aphakorn Yookongkaew. "He could have fainted," which forced him to suffocate, "but we have to wait for the autopsy," he added.

A military plane will carry Unan's body from Chiang Rai to the Satthahip naval base tonight.

A massive And Tham Luang Complex Operation in Nang Non, dozens of SEAL dove and International Experts Are trying to find a way out for the Going out Boys.

Members of the football team have been Boar Reported Disappear When June 23 Are Not Back Gives AFTER Soccer Practice Tour. They entered the cave During good weather, but trapped they remained when a sudden downpour flooded narrow tunnels.

The 12 boys and their coach have been found deep in the cave because of the British divers who went to the caves Monday, perched just a slab of Rough Water of Above the Sea, AFTER nine days without food or fresh water.

Since then, rescuers have been examining ways to take the kids out, including mounting with oxygen masks to the full facial and accompanying them in a long and dangerous swim through the tunnels.

However, the Death of an experienced scuba diver in the cave system emphasizes the inherent Temporary Risks in moving the boys, who are physically weak days without food.

It also takes more experienced divers to a maximum of five ore for each through swimming narrow and jagged channels which gives the guys outside safe.

At CNN prating Wednesday, Cade Courtley, a former SEAL of the US Navy, said that out of the kids Bringing the flooded could be treacherous to be tunneled.

That even divers, says a climb have been remarkable experience ", climb, go (through the water with) zero visibility to finally get through the team.

"Now you will ask the children of age napkin Between 11 and 16 years old - SOME of the qualified do not know Swim - of the same rate for the voyage voyage to breathe underwater Underwater?

"I think it's a mistake given some SOME terrible options that we have".