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eventually they develop a straight
forward
plan swim each boy out of the cave
accompanied by a dedicated
diver one of the biggest challenges will
be preventing each child from succumbing
to deadly fear while traversing vast
stretches of black
water one of the things that the
operation was afraid of was Panic inside
any kind of overhead environment such as
a cave Panic usually leads to instant
death he's going to breed his gas faster
he might take equipment off that he
shouldn't do and and we cannot bring the
Panic ad div up to the
surface first they have to reduce the
fear of drowning and ensure a reliable
Air
Supply it was decided that we had to
find full face mask so having a full
face mask allows the kids to breed both
with their mouth and with their nose the
kids then were using a full face mask
and they were positioned in such a way
that their head was facing down so that
also allows the the UK diver that was
bringing the kid out to kind of protect
the kid Whenever there was an
obstruction such a a rock or something
the DI would hit the rock instead of the
kid hitting the
rock but even that may not be enough to
protect the boys and keep them
calm so they decide to add one more
precaution each boy will be sedated for
most of his perilous
Journey inside the cave Dr pack is
joined by Dr Richard Harris and
Australian anesthesiologist and Cave
diver his task will be to administer the
precise dosage enough to relax the boy
but not so much that breathing becomes
compromised finally all is
ready early morning Sunday July
8th the first major rescue mission is
primed to begin
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there are now five flooded areas of the
cave with shallow canals and relatively
dry areas in
between dozens of divers air tanks have
been positioned along the
Route us Airmen assist building rope
rescue systems in key
Chambers and 13 ambulances one for each
child and their coach wait outside
everybody especially the boys's anxious
parents are desperately hoping there
will be survivors in need of them you
not know how things are going to go cuz
this has never been done before you can
have a pretty good plan but something
this complex with these many moving
Parts it's it's never going to go
exactly as
planned now it's up to Dr pack to
prepare the
boys I explained every single detail so
that they could understand and also it
was a good way to assess their mental
state whether they were ready to do this
or
not and everyone was okay with it
everyone was ready to leave the cave
whichever
way the Thai government has not
commented but the boys are believ to
have been administered with a mild
cocktail of the sedatives Valium and
ketamine to Cal them and create a state
called dissociative
anesthesia meaning the boys will be able
to Breathe by themselves but won't be
conscious enough to Panic or do anything
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dangerous the rescue begins at the boy
location dubbed chamber
9 all along the Route different rescue
teams are stationed nervously poised for
the big
moment the divers from the British cave
rescue Council take turns swimming the
boys through the flooded
areas they dive alone about 30 minutes
apart for stretches as long as 15
minutes or nearly 12200
ft and through areas as narrow as 2
ft when the British divers reach a dry
section other divers take over and carry
the boys out of the water to the next
dive
location in the flooded depths of the
Cave the so-called Euro divers Ivonne
and Eric are sent to man chamber
six the Euro team's uh role at that
point was to go into uh the area called
chamber six which is roughly halfway
into the cave when the rescue dver the
UK dver and and the kid came to our
position we assist assed them by with
changing their tanks and also making
sure that the kid were still in good
condition one of the things we had to do
the kids were using something called a
full face mask and we needed to make
sure that this mask did not leak at all
obviously if any kind of water was to
come into the kids's mask that could
have meant
drowning but before Ivon can even reach
his post he runs into
trouble about 1 minute into the dark
maybe even
less my helmet somehow gets trapped in
the ceiling above
me and to short strap is strangling me
and I know that let go of this rope is
not a good idea because I will lose my
orientation totally but I also know that
not breeding is a really bad
idea and I choose to let go of the Rope
so I can use both my hands to undo the
strap I get the helmet off Get It Free
from the entrapment in the ceiling and
then I go to the position where I think
the RO is and it's not
there find the Rope again after 45
seconds or a minute or something like
that it felt like a lot
longer Ivonne makes a narrow Escape now
he and Eric wait in their chamber for
the first time
and the first boy to
surface you're sitting in the darkest
place in the
world when you've been there for a
longer period of time your mind starts
playing tricks in you there's a couple
times that me and I have been sort of
popped up thinking that we know we saw
light down there and give a yell get
anything
back now I can see the light from the
diver and can see the silhouette of the
UK diver and I can see that he's holding
on to something dragging something to
the water
when I get to about five six 7 m I can
see that from whatever it is he's
carrying in in the water I can see
bubbles coming up to the surface which
obviously indicates that the kid is
still breeding and that was probably my
best experience on on this entire
Mission when the divers and boys escape
the flooded part of the cave they are
met in chamber three by US Air Force
Rescuers the scariest part about this is
I had no idea the condition of any of
the boys or the coach there was a good
chance that any one of them could have
come up and been dead I would turn the
child so that they were face up towards
me and I would listen to make sure they
weren't working too hard to
breathe it's still nearly half a mile
from chamber 3 to the mouth of the cave
where the ambulances are
waiting in one section Rescuers use a
Highline to haul the boys skedco
especially stretcher up a steep slope
once they hooked up the child to the
skco and we started bringing them across
with the safety line there's two spots
where there was these rocks in the way
where we had one guy just help assist
him up and pull him over very carefully
right cuz it's super slippery it's dark
you know everyone just has their
headlamps I kind of felt like the entire
thing was mission
Impossible the sked stretcher was passed
off to the Navy Seals who had an army of
people in there to do a human chain to
pass the sled all the way
down the rescued boys are rushed one by
one to the hospital by ambulance or
helicopter their parents begin to get
word but aren't told which children have
been rescued or who's still in the cave
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every time the children were brought out
we hop it would be our
child all the time they were coming out
we were
hoping by the end of day 18 Tuesday July
10th all 12 boys and their coach are
free and all are
healthy Against All Odds the 18-day
ordeal that had people around the world
fearing the worst has ended in a miracle
thankks to an audacious Rescue all 12
boys every child from that soccer team
has been
rescued it's an unprecedented
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Triumph but as the world celebrates
inside the cave there are still dozens
of rescue
workers and nearly a mile and a half
into the mountain Dr pack and three Navy
Seals still need to escape from the boy
location
they begin their Exodus and not a moment
too
soon crucial pumps diverting the water
give out and levels begin to
rise I thought it would be easy to dive
out because they were pumping the water
away but seven out of the nine pumps
weren't working so there was a lot of
water flooding
in by deciding to leave equipment behind
The Rescuers make it out in the nick of
time we finally get out of the cave and
that's when you could finally be excited
I mean you were you were completely
exhausted but it was exciting there was
rows of people cheering high fives
flashes they brought a little bit of KFC
in for us I think there was a little
bottle of Jack Daniels got past around
and everyone had a little catatory
zip I mean it was just lots of hugs
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the thousands of volunteers from
Thailand and around the world pulled off
a miraculous rescue entirely against the
odds a Marvel of bravery and human
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endeavor just on a personal level I've
got four kids to see 12 of these kids
and then the coach get rescued was
incredibly
satisfying I feel so proud to be part of
it one of 10,000 people who made this
Mission
successful it makes me happy to see that
there are great moments like this in the
world being part of changing the The
Impossible to the to the possible and
that feels that feels great feels
great knowing that you might see a a
dead Child come up out of the cave was
really challenging and
uh yeah seeing 13 boys come out wo and
uh four seals that was that was pretty
amazing this incredible story of human
endurance riveted the world's attention
we are coming many people are coming it
was a testimony to the resolve of the
people of
Thailand and showed us all what can be
achieved by combining sacrifice bravery
and
teamwork with Innovation and
Technology but much more than that the
Amazing Thailand cave rescue gave 12
Boys in their coach a
future that many feared was lost