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Will obviously struggle even more some we already lost one diver two or three days ago. an experienced diver who couldn't make it. it's unbelievable. >> that is why it takes so long. because they have the heavy equipment. and you're dealing with boys who don't have experience even swimming, any of them. and you think of them being malnourished. they haven't had that much food over the last couple of weeks. we talked to a former navy s.e.a.l. last hour and he said that the divers' rescue mission he compared it to climbing mt. everest. here is what he told us. >> people don't understand how much...

That on with the kids now. there's a lot of stages to this mission. much like climbing mt. everest. no one walks to the top of it. >> think of comparing the challenge here to mt. everest, the amount of training that goes into that, the sheer uncertainty once you get to the summit on a crime or you get to a passage and the kid panics or oxygen is running low. it speak to the bravery of the divers. many thai divers. we're told there's like lay a navy s.e.a.l. there, american divers involved in the rescue. as we talk right now, there's a kid with three divers with him making his way either climbi...

Morning. unfortunately under these circumstances. give us all a sense of how dangerous this dive is. you talk about these boys some of them don't know how to swim, let alone dive. you look at the passageways. tack a close look. at some point it e gets as skinny as one single human to fit through there. how difficult is this? >> i would say it's really difficult. i would compare it to climbing mt. everest at this point. 6% of the people die on mt. everest. we've already had one fatality unfortunately. there could be a couple more into this. knowing the people over there, the may i have s.e.a.l....

Malnourished, weakened. pete: so there are so many variables tied into this. and you talk to these navy seal divers, they're admitting, i haven't done anything this complex letting alone pulling someone else through. another one of those navy seal divers we had on the program, jake swagg he was a combat swimmer, navy diver, as you said abby, he compared it to something very few humans have ever done. listen. >> the people don't understand how much gear these guys have. they're normally traveling with two full scuba tanks and the reserve pony bottle. you know, they could have upwards of 150 pou...

Climbing mt. everest. >> what a great comparison. do you know how many americans are there, just briefly? do yodo you have any sense. >> i would guess about 100. >> how about divers themselves, do you know? >> i don't know specifically. i know they're talking three to two kids. there's a whole bunch of redundancy. there's a lot that has to be staged. there's probably 150 divers on sighsite working. >> thank you for your service. >> thank you for your time. >> just really helps you understand how dangerous. >> you love it when you get to hear from somebody who knows what they're talking about. ...