The Thai Cave Rescue

Out Alive from Backpacker

Louisa Albanese

Places & Travel, Sports, Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

For more than two weeks in 2018, the entire world was gripped by nonstop news coverage of the effort to rescue 12 boys and their coach from deep inside Tham Luang Nang Non cave in Northern Thailand where they were trapped by rising flood water. In this special episode of Out Alive, we'll hear in-depth from two of the most influential divers from this unprecedented rescue, and how their pursuit of an unusual and dangerous hobby made them some of the only people anywhere who would have a chance to save the lives of the boys and their coach. This season of Out Alive is brought to you by Stillhouse, the official spirit of adventure. Stillhouse makes award-winning bourbon, vodka, and whiskeys that come in unbreakable 100% stainless steel cans… because the good times go where glass can’t follow. Learn more at stillhouse.com

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0:00.0	In late June of 2018, a dozen boys ages 11 to 16 from the Wild Boars Football Club,
0:10.5	and their 25-year-old assistant coach entered the Tam Luang Nang Nong Cave in Northern Thailand.
0:17.6	Tam Luang is located within a national park and is open to the public, though not year-round.
0:23.8	At the entrance, a sign is posted, in Thai and English stating the cave is subject to
0:29.1	annual flooding, and closed visitors from July through November.
0:34.6	The day the soccer team entered had started out clear and sunny, and the boys were looking
0:39.8	for something to do to fill their time between practice and a teammate's birthday party
0:44.8	planned for that evening.
0:46.5	Soon after the boys entered the cave, it began to rain.
0:50.8	When the time of the party came, the head coach started receiving worried messages from
0:55.5	the parents, saying that their sons hadn't come home.
1:00.1	I made a decision to survive.
1:03.8	You're in that survival mode.
1:05.9	The idea of dying wasn't in my head.
1:07.8	I knew immediately it was a worst-case scenario.
1:09.9	I was in a fight for my life situation.
1:11.8	Whenever you walk out on these trails, you're in their house.
1:16.5	I'm Luisa Almanese, and you're listening to Out of Live by Backpacker.
1:20.6	In each episode of this podcast, we'll bring you real stories of real people who survived
1:25.6	the unsurvivable.
1:26.6	I saw the ropes zipped through the repel ring, and I couldn't do anything.
1:31.1	Learn what went wrong, what went right, and how you can escape if the worst-case scenario
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