Thai Cave Rescue | Interview with Rick Stanton | 5
Against The Odds
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🗓️ 16 March 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Rick Stanton was one of the lead divers on the mission to rescue 12 boys and their soccer coach from an underwater cave in Thailand. Rick talks to Mike Corey, about his lifelong passion to explore underwater caves. He discusses how he got into the world of cave rescue, what it was like to participate in this harrowing mission, and how the experience changed his life.
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| 0:23.0 | From Wondery, I'm Mike Corey, and this is Against the odds. |
| 0:35.0 | Today, we wrap up our series on the rescue of 12 boys and their soccer coach |
| 0:39.0 | trapped in a flooded cave in Thailand in the summer of 2018. |
| 0:43.0 | It was the most high profile cave rescue in history. |
| 0:47.0 | The whole world watched as hundreds of people descended on my side village in Thailand. |
| 0:51.0 | There were military specialists, mountain climbers and cave divers. |
| 0:55.0 | Creating a rescue plan involved dozens of people, |
| 0:57.0 | but the execution to extract the boys from chamber 9 came down to 13 men, |
| 1:02.0 | an elite group of experienced cave divers. |
| 1:06.0 | One of those divers is with me today. |
| 1:08.0 | He and his dive partner, John, were two of the four divers who were tasked with diving out the boat. |
| 1:12.0 | He was tasked with diving out the boys through incredibly dangerous conditions. |
| 1:16.0 | His name is Rick Stanton, and it's safe to say that without him, |
| 1:19.0 | the boys might not have made it out alive. |
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