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It is a big ask psychologically for the children. but one has to ask oneself what are the other options. >> jonathan miller is joining us from thailand with more. jonathan, what do you know? >> reporter: well, i'm standing at the command and control headquarters of the search and now rescue operation, which is trying to figure out how best to extract these 12 schoolboys and their 25-year-old coach from the cave system which is down in behind me about 200 meters, the cave entrance is, and a jungled hillside. that racket behind me you are hearing is a bank of generators which is being used to he...

Mile down under the top of the jungled mountain. they're in a chamber. it's fantastic they're safe. but the euphoria of yesterday's discovery of these kids has not evaporated exactly but has turned to another layer of anxiety about how on earth to get them out. i would say many of the rescuers are as much in the dark about that as the boys are down in the cavern itself. there are several options. the one you heard dlelineated ws they trim the narrow passageways -- this is a cave system with several chambers connected by the jagged narrow corridors. sharp corners to turn. they need to blast the...

They're malnourished. it is going to take a lot to get them back to full strength which is what they will need to be, christine, because what the military is talking about is getting these 12 boys, age 11 to 16 and a 25-year-old coach to scuba dive out of this cave which in itself is a logistical nightmare. we know the challenges that professional divers, military divers have faced over the last couple of days. obviously water is being pumped from this cave 24/7 around the clock. 1 125,000 an hour. and it's monsoon season in thailand. and we are expecting more rain which is why they're talking...

But you can't teach them experience. it's not like they're going 100 yards and -- it's so deep and so far in. the longer that line stretches, the higher the risks go. something can go wrong with one of the kids trying to get them out. >> can you describe what it is like to dive through a cave system? i saw it described -- they're in the middle of monsoon season. this is fast moving and really muddy water that they're dealing with. >> it's cold, dark, scary. especially with kids that don't understand. when you are a trained diver, you have an awareness of what's around you. you know what you ar...

Is just a taste of things to come. there will be a deluge until october. that cave system will flood. you can move them to a slightly higher platform inside one of the chambers. goodness, what would it be like to have to live down there for four months? there's another option, which is being explored as well. i don't know if you remember back to 2010 when those 33 miners in chile were stuck in a mine which collapsed? they drilled in. it took weeks to do so. that's how they got them out. they took them out in a capsule. it's possible that they could do this. the rock here is softer. there is a ...