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Rick Stanton Recalls Daring Thai Cave Rescue in 'Aquanaut'

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4.6656 Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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In June 2018, a dozen young soccer players and their coach became trapped more than two miles inside the Tham Luang Cave in northern Thailand, as a sudden monsoon swept into the region and inundated the underground passages. The world watched transfixed for weeks as rescuers located the boys, brought them supplies and engineered a way to bring them to safety. Cave diver Rick Stanton was among those leading the effort and he joins us to talk about the rescue, the rarefied world of underwater cave diving and his new book "Aquanaut." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Coming up on forum, in June 2018, a dozen young soccer players and their coach

1:03.8

became trapped inside the Tom Long Cave in northern Thailand as a sudden monsoon swept into

1:09.5

the region and inundated the underground

1:11.9

passages.

1:13.1

The world watched, transfixed for weeks, as rescuers located the boys, brought them supplies,

1:19.7

and engineered a way to bring them to safety.

1:22.3

Cave diver Rick Stanton led the effort, and he joins us to talk about the rescue, the rarefied

1:27.4

world of underwater cave diving, and his joins us to talk about the rescue, the rarefied world of underwater

1:28.3

cave diving, and his new book, Aquanaut.

1:31.3

This is Forum. I'm Mina Kim. In 2018, the world was gripped as it waited to learn the fate of 12 boys and their soccer coach who'd become trapped in a cave in northern Thailand by monsoon rains. On the 10th day of their disappearance, when some were beginning

2:02.3

to give up hope, two British cave divers found them on a muddy ledge. They shared a video

2:08.6

clip of the extraordinary moment of seeing them all alive.

2:12.6

Thank you.

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How many of you? No. 13.

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