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Lead diver gives 50–50 assessment of missing men in Laos cave | DW News
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8:44Now PlayingFive men have now escaped from a flooded cave in Laos after spending more than 11 days trapped underground. But the rescue operation is not over. Two men remain unaccounted for, and rescuers are still trying to determine whether they are trapped deeper inside the cave system or never made it there at all.
Finnish cave diver Mikko Paasi, one of the leaders of the international rescue operation, joins DW News from the rescue base camp in Laos. He explains why rescuers believe there is now a fifty-fifty chance that the missing men remain inside the cave, and why teams are continuing to pump water from the system despite heavy rain.
Paasi described conditions inside the cave as “extremely claustrophobic and unforgiving,” adding that after 30 years of cave diving, this was “one of the worst places I’ve ever been—and it makes me want to stop dry caving completely.”
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