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Divers stand on the muddy jungle banks dripping with water, having just returned from the flooded caves where 12 boys and their football coach are trapped in northern Thailand.

Everywhere you look there are people doing things - from those sitting under tarpaulin studying maps and masterminding the rescue, to volunteers cooking up food as if they were running a festival stall.

It's a chaotic scene playing to the sound of police whistles directing the emergency vehicles trawling through the mud.

As always in a crisis there's a weird comfort about keeping busy and doing things. Above ground it's all anyone can do.

Below ground rescuers refuse to be hurried. They have a number of options and daren't risk choosing the wrong one.

Teaching the children to dive and bringing them out through the only known about exit is hugely riAG百家乐在线官网 and a strategy you get the sense that rescuers are considering less and less viable.

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Helicopters buzz overhead, an auditory symbol of the search for new ways into the caves. It seems they want to get closer to the children from above ground.

Day after day, relatives traipse up the jungle track and through the mud to sit under a tarpaulin waiting for news.

The team on the ground have been rehearsing their evacuation plan to ensure events run smoothly once the boys are out of the cave.

There's some small comfort in being near the caves and seeing for themselves the frenetic activity of rescue teams coming and going while doing everything they can to bring this jungle siege to an end.