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Proven to protect street skaters and freestylers. stops up to 97% uv. lasts through heat. through sweat. coppertone. proven to protect. >> bret: the pressure is mounting to rescue 12 boys and soccer coach in a cave in thailand after the death of a former navy diver who was trying ohelp. correspondent of our sister network sky news reports on just how urgent the situation has become there. >> the rescue teams are still grappling with the huge physical demands of this operation. >> how many are still -- >> oxygen tanks are being relayed into position. and on the jacket tunnels of the cave comple...

Dangerous point. nbc's bill neely joins me with the latest. the operation to rescue these boys is massive. even elon musk said space x engineers are heading to thailand to help. what a wake-up call if an experienced diver died shows how incredibly risky this operation is. what can you tell us? >> yes, you're absolutely right, chris, and welcome. we're at the very mouth of the cave complex. you can maybe see in the dark behind me a new group of -- actually, there are young soldiers that just arrived and they will be taking up their positions. as you say, just hundreds, certainly more than 1,000...

Tough navy diver. he was bringing oxygen tanks down into this cave complex. when he actually ran out of oxygen himself. he collapsed. they tried to revive him. he was highly experienced, highly trained. if it can happen to him down there, what on earth about those boys? you know, the risks to them have actually increased in the last few hours. and the risk is from the very people who are trying to help them. because there are now so many di divers and volunteers that they are taking up a lot of the oxygen. oxygen levels have depleted inside the boy's cave. so they're about to put in cables, ba...

They can swallow, because they've been so long without food. above ground, teams are working to find a way to bring them home. none of the options is easy. one plan, teaching the boys, who may not know how to swim, to scuba dive. workers fitting a mask on this boy, possibly testing equipment they would use in a water rescue. and here's what they'd face. the cave complex in the mountains of northern thailand is about six miles long. the boys and their coach are here. a half-mile underground and a little over one mile from the cave's entrance, according to the british diving team who found them....

Ask for divers doing that. it's a big ask psychologically for the children but one ask to ask one's sell what have are the other options? >> a big asks for the team and the children. jonathan miller joins us in thailand on the ground. jonathan? >> yes here at command and control in hq you can see behind me some activity, police, soldiers, navy seals and up there you can make out the oxygen tanks used by the divers whoever so often come out of the cave complex itself which is just about 200 yards up the track there into the jungle. the options, well, this is really difficult, a big ask as that ...