The Thai soccer team stuck in a cave is not only being taught how to dive but how to swim

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• The Thai soccer team that has been trapped inside a cave for 11 days is being given swimming and diving lessons as part of efforts to get them out. 
• A team of divers, medics, counselors and Thai navy SEALS have been with the 12 schoolboys and their 25-year-old coach, providing medicines and food while experts assessed conditions for removal.
• Authorities want to get the boys out as soon as possible, but not if it is unsafe.
• Officials on Tuesday dismissed reports the boys could be trapped for up to four months, but supplies have been prepared in case.

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CHIANG RAI, Thailand (Reuters) - Rescue teams in northern Thailand were giving crash courses in swimming and diving on Wednesday as part of preparations to extract a young soccer squad trapped in a cave and keen to end a harrowing 11-day ordeal.

A team of divers, medics, counselors and Thai navy SEALS were with the 12 schoolboys and their 25-year-old coach, providing medicines and food while experts assessed conditions for getting them out, a task the government said would not be easy.

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