Team of 12 football children and their coach found alive after 9 days missing (Updated)

BBC: The 12 boys and their football coach trapped in a Thai cave will need learn to dive or wait months for flooding to recede before they can get out, the army says.

Rescuers are now battling rising water to bring more supplies to the group.

Earlier:

CNN: Rescue teams have found all 12 boys and their soccer coach alive in a cave in Thailand nine days after the group went missing, according to a high-ranking person involved in the search and rescue operation.

The boys, who range in ages from 11 to 16 years old and are all members of the Wild Boar soccer team, entered the Tham Luang Nang Non cave system on Saturday, June 23, for a team outing, but became stranded in the dark tunnels by a sudden and continuous downpour.

The international rescue operation — which includes the Thai Navy SEALs as well as experts from the US, China, Australia and the UK — had been working to reach a large, deep chamber, informally named Pattaya Beach, where they believed the missing boys had taken refuge.