The potentially tragic story of the young boys and soccer coach stuck in a Thailand cave came to a miraculous end this morning. On the third day of a difficult and dangerous operation, military divers managed to get the last four boys and their coach out of the long series of caves into which they wandered more than two weeks ago. “All thirteen Wild Board are now out of the cave,” the Thai SEALs posted on social media as their nation and the world celebrated:

“The boys in the hospital, they're expected to be there for at least seven days. They're being quarantined, and two may have lung infections,” @AnnaWerner reports from Thailand.https://t.co/2tD5NWiLst #ThaiCaveRescue pic.twitter.com/qLoRemvth5

— CBS This Morning (@CBSThisMorning) July 10, 2018

As Fox News notes, the only people remaining in the cave system are the rescue divers, who should be coming out shortly as well:

FOX NEWS ALERT: All 12 boys and their soccer coach rescued from Thailand cave | @Jeff_Journalist pic.twitter.com/mA49ikq2Ky

— FOX & friends (@foxandfriends) July 10, 2018

Thailand’s navy SEALs say all 12 boys and their soccer coach have been rescued from a flooded cave in far northern Thailand, ending an ordeal that lasted more than two weeks.

They say the four boys and coach rescued Tuesday, after other rescues in the previous two days, are all safe.

The SEALs say they’re still waiting for a medic and three Navy SEALs who stayed with the boys to emerge from the cave.

It’s been an amazing story to follow, with the ending perhaps more amazing than anyone anticipated. The complete success of this operation is still tempered with the death of one Thai SEAL who died while attempting to set up the rescue, but it seemed beyond belief that it would succeed at all. The BBC’s Dan Johnson reviews the seemingly insurmountable challenges that rescuers faced:

"It really is a fantastic achievement of human endeavour" – @DanJohnsonNews on the extraordinary challenges faced by #ThaiCaveRescue heroes https://t.co/iGkjnWBkol pic.twitter.com/bbI7NfYeEJ

— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) July 10, 2018

This will go down as one of the “great escapes,” as Johnson puts it, or better yet the great rescues. For the boys and the coach, there was no escape without the global effort to extract them from the trap. It’s a reminder that we can move mountains and seas when we come together for a common purpose.

We don’t often see these kinds of miracles. We should take a moment to celebrate them when they occur.

Update: And that’s a wrap:

Mission accomplished!

The last members of the rescue team who were inside the cave have made it out successfully #ThaiCaveRescuehttps://t.co/iGkjnWBkol pic.twitter.com/5eTcOrVR6x

— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) July 10, 2018

The rescue chief has just said all the Navy Seals – three divers and a doctor – are out of the cave.

We do not have details about their exact condition, but this extraordinary rescue mission now appears to have come to an end.

And the world breathes a sigh of relief — and gratitude.