The Thailand Cave Rescue

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.3 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2018

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

The miraculous rescue of the 12 boys and their young football coach, trapped in a flooded cave in Thailand, has been followed around the world. It was a global operation with divers from several different counties. Its chances of success or failure were finely balanced. In the end there was jubilation, tinged with some sadness. The BBC minute team take you back to each day of the past three weeks and reflect on how the drama unfolded.

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0:00.0	How many of you?
0:02.0	How many of you?
0:03.0	13.
0:05.0	Brilliant.
0:07.0	Hi, this is a special program on the Thailand Cave Rescue.
0:11.0	I'm really happy, huh?
0:12.0	We are happy too. Cave Rescue. I'm really happy, right?
0:13.0	We are happy too.
0:15.0	Yes.
0:16.0	Thank you so much.
0:17.0	10 days in no light, pitch black, no solid food, just catching literally water drops dripping from the stalactites above.
0:24.4	Amazing.
0:25.4	All around the world we've been watching the remarkable story of survival.
0:31.0	It involved 12 young boys and their football coach who had been trapped in a flooded cave in the north of Thailand.
0:39.0	People thought they were dead, thought they wouldn't make it out. We didn't even know they were alive. They didn't
0:44.2	know if anyone was coming, if help would ever reach them.
0:47.5	This was a difficult mission. Success was by no means guaranteed.
0:52.2	You know what, to be honest, when I was at the site I was really worried for the boys
0:56.0	I wasn't sure they'd make it because we were hearing so much about how difficult the journey was
1:00.5	and we knew well it was difficult even for trained divers.
1:04.0	But in the end the emotion was jubilation.
1:10.0	Believe in God they say. Only belief can move a mountain.
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