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COMMENT LAUREN DECICCA / GETTY IMAGES Onlookers watch and cheer as ambulances deliver boys rescued from a cave in northern Thailand to hospital in Chiang Rai on Sunday. Saskatchewan Divers began a rescue operation to pull the 12 boys and their soccer coach out of the flooded cave early Sunday. deserves credit for its carbon tax homework. Raise your corporate profile in ’s business MacKay A8 MIRACLE RESCUE UNDERWAY

community with the power and reach of Postmedia’s SPORTS DIVERS BRING added as rescue work was halted for the night. N u t t a k a r N S u m o N Sunday’s operation will be remembered as an Deserving or not, in Chiang Rai, Thailand extraordinary achievement in a drama that has FOUR BOYS OUT left Thailand and the world holding its breath. England remains r o l a N d o l i p h a N t The Wild Boars soccer team and their assistant in London premier Brands and content. very much alive OF THAI CAVE, coach went missing after heavy rains blocked the in World Cup exit of the cave complex, which they were explor- BUT PAUSE BEFORE ing after practice, on June 23. competition. B1 hey allowed themselves smiles, but there was The group were found sheltering on a ledge in no cheering among the exhausted rescuers an air pocket four kilometres inside the cave on emerging from the Tham Luan cave system SECOND ATTEMPT July 2 by Rick Stanton, a British former firefight- T in northern Thailand Sunday night. er, and John Volanthen, an IT consultant from With the first of the monsoon rains already fall- The four boys who swam out Sunday were se- Brighton, England, who are considered among the ing on the limestone hills above their heads, Thai lected because they were the strongest of the best cave divers in the world. FP navy SEALs and elite cave divers from around the team. It is unclear how weaker, more vulnerable Authorities had considered several possible world had pulled off what many thought was im- members will manage the journey. strategies, including drilling an escape shaft from After joining possible — guiding four boys though a terrifying “If we wait and the rain comes in the next few above or pumping out enough water to enable The is comprised of more than the L.A. Lakers, underwater journey in one of the most daring res- days, we will be tired again from pumping and them to walk out. cue operations of modern times. our readiness would drop. If that’s the case, then Diving out was always considered the most LeBron James But with heavy rain setting in at dusk, it was we have to reassess the situation,” Narongsak dangerous option. A Thai navy SEAL involved in could go full plain to authorities and locals alike that they now Osottanakorn, the former Chaing Rai governor, the rescue died after running out of oxygen in the faced a race against time to rescue the remain - who is overseeing the rescue, warned late Sunday tunnel on Friday. 140 respected brands across print, web, and mobile Hollywood. FP1 ing eight boys and their 25-year-old coach from night. “It’s dangerous (even) to the most experienced their air pocket prison four kilometres inside the “We can only carry on the operation once we are divers to go through,” one diver said. “It’s pretty mountain, and the biggest challenge was yet to ready — and this will be done soon, because the air scary.” INDEX come. tanks and other systems have to be reinstalled,” he See RESCUE on A2

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