Happy to post here, though.
And they apparently will be in the cave for quite some time. 
We can still post & follow along. 
Haha, yes!What's wrong with the thread title as is? They are all still alive aren't they?
The one title update I can't wait for is: They are all OUT!!!
Hoping that's sooner than later.
I saw reference to it in some comments, but not actually in articles. From what I read, where they live there are lots of superstitions. It was thought to be good luck for teams to go into the cave and touch the wall before the start of the season. That's what they did. And when they did, they became trapped by floods, so they moved upward. Then waters rose, so even the paths they walked became flooded. Fortunately they hit one high spot. It was a miracle both that they found somewhere up high and that rescuers somehow found them. They're like, a mile in or something crazy like that.
Yes. And for nine days they were in a dark, small area not knowing if they'd be found. None of them can swim. And in a few days, it's going to become rainy season, so waters could rise more. They either have to learn to swim and dive and attempt to swim out now, with the help of rescuers, but it's treacherous even for trained divers, as passageways sometimes don't allow even for an oxygen tank, let alone two people with tanks, and water is coffee colored, plus it's a mile long. And there are 13 of them to get out. One alternative that's been suggested is waiting until October, when it becomes dry season, but there are no guarantees waters won't rise to critical levels, and then there's the matter of having to stay in that spot for months. Two Thai doctors have offered to stay with them, and they're running telephone lines so they can talk to their families, but mentally and physically it's going to be tough, with no guarantees they'll get out alive. They're looking at drilling into the mountain from the top, but there's worry they could cause a collapse of the structure that's holding them, and whether they'll be able to reach them, etc. No easy answers.
Families are asking for prayers. (There are diagrams in the link in post #23 - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5915565/How-terrified-Thai-boys-there.html
There are also sections where the water is so murky & soupy that the experienced divers describe it as swimming though black, muddy coffee.
The last pic above isn't quite accurate. It's not all underwater. There are two sections that are (currently) above water and the divers use each area as staging areas. It also allows them to come up out of the water when going back & forth. However, if it rains more, then yes, the whole thing will look like the pic.
Even so, it has taken some of the expert, experienced divers 6 hours to get all the way through from beginning to end.
The rescue team is teaching the kids how to scuba dive now. It's not like the kids have much to occupy their time otherwise. And it gives the rescue team an option of how to proceed, once the kids know how to swim & dive.
A FIOS cable is being threaded all the way through so the kids will be able to call & talk to their parents on the other side. The cable got too wet yesterday while under water. But, they are making another attempt today, once they figure out how to keep the cable dry.
