The Thai team is stuck: Rescue phases

For many days, the whole Thai country has been "holding its breath" to follow every step of the rescue force to rescue 12 boys and the trainer stuck in a deep cave, surrounded by mud and water. And this is not a rare case in the world.

The search finally ended yesterday (July 2) when two British divers arrived where the boys were stuck. 12 boys and 1 coach are all exhausted, who are muddy and loose after more than 9 days of being imprisoned in caves.

After 9 days of searching, the rescue team finally approached 13 Thai team members.(Source: CNN)

Now, the next difficult thing is to find a way to get 13 people out of 10km in the safest way. The rescue team said it planned to provide enough food for the team for four months so they could ensure health while rescue forces planned, finding their way out of the cave.

Predicting, the work of bringing the whole team out is still a lot of difficulties and difficulties ahead. This is not a case of troubled drama, before that, there have been many similar incidents in the world.

From miners trapped underground, until sailors jammed underwater, Channel News Asia synthesized several trapped and dramatic rescue cases like 'action movies' around the world:

Gramat, France, 1999

On November 22, 1999, the rescue team found seven men trapped in a cave system in southwestern France for 10 days. They were experienced cave explorers but were trapped in a cave in the Vitarelles due to a severe storm that caused severe flooding and sealed off the road.

The unprecedented rescue mission has been concentrated in France, with many experts involved digging a series of tunnels through the rock to try to find the seven people. And finally they were found when a tunnel was cleared to an underground river.

The 7 explorers survived by calculating the ration and still had enough drinking water and light from the gas lamp to last for two more days at the time of the discovery. And all are in good health.

Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia, 2005

A group of seven people on Russia's small submarine Priz has run out of air after three days of being trapped underwater, at a time when they were rescued.

The submarines of the sailors encountered an obstacle on August 4, 2005, and were unable to operate the machine at a position of about 190 meters below the ocean surface. The incident was immediately compared to the Russian Kursk submarine accident five years earlier, killing all 118 crew members.

However, the members of the Priz were rescued after a British underground robot successfully cut the hull.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has awarded medals to the British and Moscow rescue groups and immediately ordered some ocean robots for search and rescue purposes.

A Chilean miner was released after more than 2 months trapped underground.(Source: AP).

Copiapo, Chile, 2010

The incident of 33 Chilean miners trapped at a depth of 600 m underground after a landslide on August 5, 2010 attracted special attention from the whole world. These people seemed to die until luckily a detector was brought down through a narrow path, 17 days later.

Miners miraculously survived with just 15 boxes of salmon, shared for over half a month.

'We only eat 1 teaspoon of fish in 24 hours, and then 48 hours and 1 spoon and finally after 72 hours to eat. It's really bad , ' said Franklin Lobos, a survivor.

Even after identifying the location and sending supplies to 33 miners, the rescue team took several weeks to get them to the surface. In total, the rescue took nearly 70 days.

Ica, Peru, 2012

Nine miners, including a father and son family, were trapped underground seven days after a cave in southern Peru collapsed on April 7, 2012.

Rescuers had to wrap them in blankets and wear sunglasses to protect the victims' eyes after so many days in darkness.

Rescue operations at this illegal mine are also difficult and fear that there will be additional collapses when the search team travels through the rock.

Stuck under a depth of 250m, the victims had to find ways to think positively with funny stories to kill time.'The moment was found to be like being reborn,' a victim said in tears after being rescued and returned to his family.

Untersberg, Germany, 2014

More than 700 rescue workers combined Johann Westhauser rescue force after he suffered a serious head injury inside a cave in Germany on June 8, 2014.

The 52-year-old man and two other people were in distress when the rock slide caused him to injure his head. A person who had walked many hours back and forth sought help while the other was beside Mr. Westhauser.

The wound made him unable to move and the rescue team and medical experts from five countries joined forces to save him from a depth of 1,000 meters underground. Finally, Mr. Westhauser left the cave after 11 days of being trapped and injured, during a rescue operation that local officials called 'impossible' .