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Lime cave system with deep recesses and narrow passageways. most of the year, it's relatively dry, but when monsoon comes, it quickly fills with water and when that happens, the cave is impossible to enter or to leave. the water levels are now rising. and the boys cannot swim. the night after the boys are reported missing, the thai navy elite s.e.a.l.s diving team join the search. working around the clock in pitch darkness, they wade, swim and dive through the black waters. at the same time, agencies and volunteers begin the ma moth task of pump iing water from th cave and surrounding area.

Very dangerous dives. what's that got to be like for a child, especially some children who cannot swim who are in this situation? what's that like for them? >> well, they'll have a range of reactions. and i think the important potentially helpful way of viewing this is to see it as some sort of adventure for a child rather than focusing on the potential danger and potentially what could go wrong in those dangerous situations. i think the scariest parts for the kids will be those very, very, very narrow parts of the cave where there's potential for getting trapped. that will be quite frightenin...

Some of the boys cannot swim. they are weak. they didn't eat for several days. they've been doing that energy gel in the meantime, but the images we can see from inside there, it's difficult. tight spaces, complete darkness. >> it's important also to say that these crews are racing the weather. they've got that urgency because rains have started. monsoon-level rains are expected to intensify this week, and diane, you mentioned they say this takes 11 hours for the experienced diver to go in and come out. there is the variable of the child. >> exactly. >> and potential panic and anxiety and fati...

Gone into motion. it was quicker than we were expecting. >> if you think about where they started, 13 people, 12 of them boys 11 to 16 with a 25-year-old coach in a cave, in the dark for most of the past period with just the food and water they took in with them, and then found by these two british divers. and then this massive international plan to rescue them began. and how do you get these boys, some of whom cannot swim, who never have been in the water this deep, right? we're talking dozens of feet deep. they're not experienced divers. to get them out of this cave, and to do it ahead of sc...