The boys trapped in a Thai cave will have to learn to dive or wait months for flooding to recede, the country’s army says.
Rescue operations are battling with rising water and are currently bringing in food and medical supplies.
The children will be supplied with food that could last at least four months, according to the military.
The 12 boys and their football coach had been missing for nine days before they were found by divers on Monday.
The search for the group had gripped the nation as it was unclear where they were or whether they even were still alive.
Families of the missing group were ecstatic at news of the rescue.
The Tham Luang cave complex in Chiang Rai in northern Thailand is regularly flooded during the rainy season which lasts until September or October.
If the children are to be brought out before then, they will have to learn basic diving skills to safely get through the dangerous corridors of muddy, zero-visibility waters.
Attempts to pump the water levels lower have so far not been successful.
（中央社記者劉得倉曼谷3日專電）受困泰北清萊美塞睡美人洞的13名泰國人，2日晚間被英國潛水員尋獲，多數人身體稍顯虛弱，但意識清楚，但目前救援最大障礙是洞內水位。泰國政府將全力抽水，設法救出他們。
泰國政府正調集抽水機，以全力抽乾洞內積水。
清萊省省長納隆薩（Narongsak Osottanakorn）今天上午對外表示，經過進入洞穴的醫師評估所有人身體狀況，多數人稍顯虛弱，由於9天未進食，已送給他們適合食用的流質營養補充品，部分人員有小擦傷，也以抗生素等藥品治療，預防他們受到感染，並計畫先救出年紀最小的孩子，盡速送醫。
由於洞內地型複雜，加上積水很深，評估13人都沒有潛水經驗，身體狀況可能不適合潛水，清萊省省長納隆薩表示，目前將全力抽乾洞內積水，救出他們，但必須和時間賽跑，因為根據天氣預報，4日起當地又將恢復降雨的天氣。
這支名叫「野豬」的少年足球隊，是清萊省（Chiang Rai）美塞縣一所學校的足球隊，6月23日下午由25歲男教練帶領12名11到16歲男隊員進入當地人稱為睡美人洞（Tham Luang Nang Non）的地下洞穴探險。
兩名英國潛水員是在2日晚間約9時45分左右在原本預期的洞內「巴達雅海灘」（Pattaya Beach）岩丘更深入400公尺的高地找到他們，他們意識清楚，並向搜救人員要食物吃。距離他們失聯已經超過9天又5小時。