Dressed in football fatigues and looking healthy, the "Wild Boars" football team spoke of their "miracle" rescue at a news conference on Wednesday, their first public appearance since getting trapped.
The survivors said they had no food, with one team member saying they "drank water that fell from the rocks" until rescuers discovered them.
"We tried to dig out as we thought we cannot only wait for authorities to get us," coach Ekkapol Chantawong told reporters in Chiang Rai, a city in northern Thailand.
