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Prestaging equipment like tanks, as well as providing potential medical support, should anyone need it to support some of the international people that were potentially going to participate in this recovery effort. now, were told british divers may participate in future recovery efforts. the u.s. would support them with medical support, potentially, if anything were to happen. >> right. so there was earlier reporting that the united states had helped brief initially on the way in. did that turn ...

Developments. >> they went in to start this rescue operation about 45 minutes ago around 10:00 a.m. local time. 13 international divers along with five thai navy s.e.a.l.s. they picked the best from the team to get the operation under way. the governor confirming that they are not going to be out until about 9:00 p.m. local time tonight. this is an 11-hour operation. the journey which is about miles through tunnels and chambers clamoring over bolders takes skilled divers about hours to do. they ...

Practicing with so they can breathe in those sections that still required them to go under water. then they were going to be using something called the buddy diving system. this is where each boy would be tethered to skilled divers who would then be able to guide them through these very nice stay twisted passages that posed so much worry over the past couple weeks. the water level in the cave system had gone down considerably. about a third of the journey was said to be -- >> all right. janis ma...

Divers went in about five hours ago, it got underway. theyre probably just now in the chamber where the boys have been waiting, day 17 now of this effort to get them out. it will take several hours before theyre able to bring the boys and coach out to the entrance. theyre going to employ the buddy diving system. a bear of divers will have a boy between them, theyre tethered, and they will help him get through the tricky parts weve been hearing a lot about where the kids would have to go under wa...