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Air passages from the surface down to the cave system. the difficults say experts is even if they find one might lead to a different system. the cans of it hitting the boys exactly is relatively slim. but obviously pulling them up through a chamber of some kind would be advisable. the divers i have seen here are all technical divers using years and years of experience. it's extremely dangerous and difficult to get the kids out if they have to come through the water. >> still a long way to go. david live for us in thailand. thank you. to the uk now. police say a couple in southern england was...

Boys out before the rains start using converted scuba equipment through these incredibly difficult passageways leading into the cave, probably -- it's a six hour trip out for experienced divers. goodness knows what it will take to shepherd these children out after their exhausting ordeal. the contingency plan you talk about i think is an accelerated version. if the rain comes and when it comes, it's torrential and it will flood the cave system again very quickly. they have been working very hard to pump out as much water as they can. the pumps are down there. the outflow is down the hill. it's...

>> well, it is extraordinary these boys' resilience, they are smiling and sharing the odd joke with the navy seal divers, they seem to be in reasonably good shape. the doctors are happy. a couple are said to be malnourished which is hardly surprising after being nine days in the dark and their coach, a 25-year-old, was giving some of the food he had with them to the boys and is in worse condition than any of them. we don't know other than what we've mean? the videos but the boys have been given high energy biscuits and other foods to gather their strength for what may in the end be a last dash...

Is a five-hour journey for an experienced cave diver through is what an underground assault course back to the cave entrance, you can probably see what's going on in here right now. there are a bunch of people trying to prepare fiber optic cables to put in the cave system. they've had an unsuccessful attempt to establish a communications link to allow them to talk to their boys up here. that hasn't happened yet so that's going on as we speak but the situation is critical. it's nail-biting. they have a small window to extract the boys before this forecast deluge of the monsoon which is likely t...

They are not experienced. i was part of a cave rescue team, had been a caver already at that time for 20 years. they're having to face something that's new and very frightening for them. i'm sure that the people who are with them, that have gone in, are helping support that. they went without food for nine days. i got fed consistently. so it's a whole different situation. >> i get the sense that you're a tough lady. but did you ever have a moment where you were truly worried? did you want to griffive up hop? >> well, i was worried that the parks service would shut down the expedition mapping t...