Rescue teams in Thailand began the first stage of an operation to save a youth soccer team from a flooded underground cave, with four of the twelve boys successfully rescued.
According to BBC News, the team began the operation ahead of schedule thanks to a pause in the frequent rains that come with the country’s monsoon season. The operation was put on hold until Monday morning after oxygen levels in the cave dropped. Oxygen tanks along the nearly 2-mile stretch will be replaced.
The rescue operation involves guiding the boys through a partially flooded cave system that has already taken the life of one diver who attempted to reach the trapped soccer team.