andy eavis there, talking to me earlier.ans are continuing to celebrate the fact that their team are just one win away from the world cup final, after their comfortable victory yesterday against sweden. the bbc has announced that the game was watched by a peak audience of 19.9 million. the match also brought a new online record for live viewing on the bbc with 3.9 million users requesting to stream the game online. england's opponents in wednesday's semifinal will be croatia who beat the hosts russia in a penalty shoot out last night. our correspondent sarah rainsford is in samara where yesterday's match took place. some extremely dedicated england fans we have been meeting over the past couple of days in samara, but they are pretty pleased that they made the investment because for a lot of people, they did not think england would get this far. as soon as they were sitting on the sofa or in the pub back home watching england progress and watching the team perform, a lot of them started scrambling to get tickets, as you say,

let's speak to andy eavis, the former head of the british caving association.you have been following the story and speaking to us on bbc news. this latest development, four boys out, what is your response? euphoria. it is wonderful that they have got four out safely. it suggests, with a great deal of luck and not too much rain that they can get the other nine out. fingers crossed. the great moment last week was actually getting through and finding the boys, and finding all 13 of them alive. that was a wonderful moment. the second wonderful moment was getting the first of them out in ta ct getting the first of them out in tact and looking pretty good. in between, unfortunately, there was this dreadful disaster of the thai diver diving. itjust underlines the danger varies with this type of operation. —— diver dying. cave divers realise this situation and they will be very careful and composed, and you were asking earlier what they will be doing in this period, they will be resting andi this period, they will be resting and i hope they can get as much rest as they

. —— we will now speak to andy eavis, the former head of the british caving association. you know a couplee forefront of this rescue operation. what will they be trying to do right now?|j rescue operation. what will they be trying to do right now? i know nearly all of them. i should point out straightaway that diving in caves is considerably different from diving in open water and it was very important to get cave divers out there, people who have the right mindset to be able to operate in these types of conditions, no visibility, tight spaces and no airspace above. they have got the tea m airspace above. they have got the team now of international cave, and i repeat cave divers, and that is the key to this. they are the masters of the profession. they are experiencing this sort of operation before i may have the best chance of anybody on earth i getting these quys anybody on earth i getting these guys out. your reporter that, had a lot of the problems clearly defined... we are seeing pictures of those two british divers who found the boys in the first place. this is incredibly difficult a

let's speak to andy eavis, former chair of the british caving association, who knows john volanthen andsentjohn and rick to thailand. thank you, gentlemen, for talking to us. thank you, gentlemen, for talking to us. i know your colleague has been texting and e—mailing john blanton and richard stanton, what did they have to say about the rescue? well, we had some information from them after they completed the dive yesterday, describing a bit of what they had had to do. they describe they had had to do. they describe the dive as being, the word they used was gnarly, which means they had had to swim upstream, hauling themselves upstream against the current for quite a way. the total diving section is about 1500 metres, and about half of that is actually submerged, and the other half is bits that are above water. so they we re bits that are above water. so they were diving and then wading a section, then diving another section before they got through to where the boys were. fortunately, the diving conditions improved over the weekend, to make serious diving possible again. the water recedin

earlier i spoke to andy eavis, who's the former head of the british cave diving association.as very encouraged by how the mission had gone so far. it is wonderful they have got four out safely and it suggests with a great deal of luck and not too much rain that they can get the other nine out, so fingers crossed. the great moment last week was actually getting through and finding the boys and finding all 13 of them alive, that was a wonderful moment. the second wonderful moment was getting the first of them out intact and looking pretty good. in between u nfortu nately looking pretty good. in between unfortunately there was this dreadful disaster of the tide diver dying and it just dreadful disaster of the tide diver dying and itjust underlines the danger that there is with this type of operation. the cave divers do realise this situation and they will be very careful and cool and calm and collected. you were asking earlier what they will be doing in this period, they will be resting. i hope they will get as much rest as they possibly can to enable them to go back in and perf