of all time. saturday afternoon june twenty third twelve boys and they saw her courage heading to the rugged mountains of northern thailand for a trick. they pose for photos before riding to the time the one cave a place they had visited before. they are expected to return home to the nearby village later that day. a dozen members of a youth football team and their coach a missing after they entered a cave in open thailand investigators believe the teenage boys and their coach called into the cave and they never came out search and rescue crews are on the same trying to locate the boy's billings attains bay trapped by a flooded strain in the cave entrance.

within twenty four hours of the boys' going missing a search operation is underway. the boys bikes and backpacks of found near the entrance to the cave which becomes ground zero in the search. distraught family members gather. around. my left a long haul. sixteen

kilometer long limestone can system with deep recesses and narrow passage ways most of the year it's relatively dry but when the monk soon comes quickly fills with water and when that happens the cave is impossible to weigh into or to leave. the night of the boys are reported missing the time navy's elite seals diving team join the search. working around the clock in peach darkness they wade swim and dive through the black waters. at the same time agencies and volunteers begin the member of the task of pumping

water from the cave and surrounding area. the right they could survive. six days to do more to now that the. fire i am going to be a point in time where the. even the entrance to. the day three the sutures escalated into a major military operation. hundreds of searches scale the milton for alternative entry points into the cave.

what. the who is the boys in the coach have made it to a location clear of the rising water. move. along in the hope of it but hold up and i'll be on the money if i need to top. it all is how. i don't want to live it up blow it out how to. love me i'm going to keep up logic on me and i'm the last minute. on. hold relatives can do is pray. to four days this still moves son the boys are alive.

the time navy seals are unable to navigate the lebron of tide passages filled with murky flood water. time authorities cool for international help that he. says about five forty five in the morning and mine director of operations my number two guy in the squadron called and said sure you're tracking the the there's a soccer team stuck in a cave in thailand be ready because we're being notified that we might head out landed about one of the clocke in the morning on the twenty eighth june and then leadership pushed straight to the cave site. to british cave divers have also been cool lean by the time as rick stanton enjoy the length and a conceded the best in the world and in the first to dive deep into the cave they briefed the americans on the daunting task ahead they were saying the currents right now. are not manageable you know we've been battling to move forward the

rains are still following the flows are getting higher the visibility is zero the water's cold. on sunday july first. a break in the rain and the risk you dive team to set up a base inside one of the cave chambers. the british divers foods deeper into the cave. below the surface they swim against wrong currents for one point five kilometers. and then the moment seems like a miracle. almost ten days since they first into the caves .

we have been going to what. we are happy. initially is a huge sigh of relief ok the the boys were able to find a high enough ground they've survived this long you know with some of the higher flood levels in the cave but then it was it was scary because we realize how far back they were in. of the locating the boys the british divers stanton in valencia colin reinforcements from whom. member of the british council diving rick dive into. and when you hear that it's twelve children and the young coach there in this situation what you first thought about the options or the viability of getting the mash. first saw is they're not

going to go out i mean the kids would recover as before with live people on. a song about panic in the water. you can tell a kid whatever you want but in an actual situation where you go a kid in the war more than likely going to panic so at first we thought it was not possible to actually dive them out. jason mellon sims first dive into the cave confirms his fears. cost on the way out of sometimes yes you can only just feel the line sometimes you can see if a foot in front of you're over times it's just nothing it's all by braille and you're trying to remember all these lined traps so it's quite a mentally exhausting experience to go back. to study all. the unfolding drama is now a major international story hundreds of journalists are here in

a makeshift muddy village but the food of the number and. type people have also flocked to the site from all over the country to do whatever they can to help. a twenty four hour tent city in the middle of this remote location is feeding and supporting thousands of people involved in the operation. almost everything he's being freely supplied. the operation has shifted from search to risk you're. a party of time navy seals including a medic reaches the stranded boys bringing food water heat blankets and medical supplies.

surprisingly they only have minor injuries. waiting above ground the boy's mothers are overjoyed is they watch the video of this son's. instant. i. think. i am. going. to new i always. want to see if he'll do i don't want to take. a. lot diving up there and seeing all these kids how will they with their courage. seemed you know in good spirits. whether it was a quite desolate. they've know as. they go to the toilet.

the smell is quite bought. well the nation and the world celebrate the boys survival rescuers grapple with the enormous challenge of hell to get them else. the search for alternative entry points to the caves is proof utah. we've had hundreds if not thousands of the time military that were linked in with and they're not finding any other access points along the side and we found all the cave in experts that we could and they all confirmed now that there's one way in and out of this cave and that's at the front entrance of it there is no other option. the mission could not be more dangerous the boys in the coach are a kilometer below the surface and two point four kilometers inside the notoriously treacherous cave. the option of leaving the boys where they are until after the monsoon season has been canvassed but abandoned.

homes are in action draining more the out of the cave but heavy rains a full cost which could quickly submerge the entire system. it we're fighting mother nature trying to get this much water out but. it was really the understanding that the flow of water coming in and the lowering of the oxygen levels in chamber nine that that's that's what kind of forced us to a decision of hey we've got to do something now. dr craig challen is a recently retired perth vet his friend harry is dr richard harris and the need to test from adelaide they have dived together all over the world where already they made contact with the british i followed the. i waiting up to this. probably familiar with what was going on in the car i've. yet to be honest

not looking good at all. on friday july sixth as harrison challen a ride at the rescue site there is a tragedy. news breaks that a former time navy seal involved in the operation has died. at the. petty officer. had left the navy but signed up to join the search is a volunteer. who had been delivering canisters along the route being used by the divers in the cave in a cruel twist he lost consciousness after running out of himself on the return dive . coming at me. and. that hoping that he might be namely what would.

be a bank with a man by. me and they. walked out. but on. me. they come up. you know there was obviously a very sobering moment at the same time we realized ok this doesn't change anything we still have twelve kids and a coach in there we still have to to go forward and do this. in the aftermath of the tragedy the mood of the rescue changes. the short lived elation after the boys were discovered has been replaced by a sense of crisis in grim determination. everyone else was starting to see the same exact logic trail that was very quickly becoming to. the point that the dive option was the only option the tice eales taller so you

know it's approved so we're going to go in and we're going to do this. this preparations for the risky move into their final stage everyone's morale is boosted when letters written by the boys to their families and brought out by british divers are released. and that i love you if i can get out please take me to crispy park. it a bit but don't worry don't forget my bird. i am happy the seal team is taking care of us the grave. what did you think of the the way those kids and comported themselves strong really strong you know composure. we told them about the plan the details of the plan that would have to how we don't have to dive them out and none of them were whimpering our crying or anything they

just accepted what we were going to do real mental strength from them and which is really surprising considering consider in their ages how was it decided who goes out first who goes out what batch and when did the coach come out so that was up through. the boys on the coach on the tar and i.v. we told them what was going to have come and said you choose your best man and out that. it's no sunday the eighth of july the twelve boys in the coach have been trapped for fifteen days the conditions are getting worse as the monsoon closes even there's a growing sense that it's now or never. that anybody can be there and i. don't hear. exam forty. five. twenty three. and i've.

got this i made in. my own right. the toy authorities ordered anyone not involved in the rescue operation to leave the area. is night falls a fleet of ambulances arrive this thirteen of them one for each of the boys in their coach. the task of bringing the boys else will be the responsibility of a team of thirteen foreign divers and five time navy seals. it will take them three hours to make their way through the narrow dark passages to reach the boys. so this is where the boys are here and

try but on so there's a there's a hill here craig challenge will play a key role along the route of the risk you get it is the unique skills of his friend the innate the dr harris that will be critical to the success of the mission you know how you taping the boys. yep so i did have some sort. of calm because the worst thing that could happen would be one of those guys panicking and if you put me in a full face mask with no previous experience and drag me out of a car if it's better three hour trip then all would be terrified and probably panicking as well. yet there were calmed down a bit. this year here yes i went out basically given a notice of it to knock him out. a year. that wasn't very much activity there.

the risk you operation is an incredible feat of planning and coordination. so we kind of divided the cave up to make it easier nine areas right and there was of one hundred fifty people you know from chamber nine to then from the cave all working as one big team with many different responsibilities. my role was one of the local recovery divers so i would take a kid from chamba nine and bring him the whole way out. so with the dive in which submerge with the kid on it depending on how the line led with him on the right side of the left on side of a hole in the back or hold in the chest i have a face here depending if they to hit the roof or not or if we can see what was going on we would pull them out a little bit further. truly through the show me the first reason the movie's ability the show of a major in front i'm a sawed enough to hold on to the line by the last day it was no visibility so it's

much more all. mentally exhausting and i had to have a lot really close to me because if you didn't. his head against the rocks was if i had my head quite close extended my head above in. my head was brushing the rocks first so we could view it the visibility was that body couldn't see the rock until he actually hit it. there were certain areas that involve floating them to certain areas the involved in them swimming them if we have to rescuers per child you know ensuring that just at all times if there were two there was one always holding on to the child the feeling control. could get myself up i was confident of not losing control of the line i was confident of again the kid out i wasn't one hundred percent confident of game out of life because if we bashed him against the rope too hard and he dislodged. mask and flooded his mask he was

a goner so that's why we have to be very slow and careful about not. banging them against rocks. not. that body but god what need but sometimes i might want to hide that i know from the back of my hand whole. city sees on. the news that the first four of the boys have big risk you didn't prove to safety is met with mixed emotions is the anxious families watch and wait to learn who is being saved the some there is a lation for others more anxious waiting. to.

come up in the light. in the capital you made a good meal. we're trying not to get our souls sorry a false sense of comfort and it could all still go horribly wrong and in fact you know it in some ways that it be worse for everyone involved if we've had some good outcomes and then it started to. list than twenty four hours later the seemingly miraculous fate is repeated. after a second risk you expedition but team of eighteen divers another four boys have brought safely down to the cave. second day when we had another four for four we pulled everybody aside and said this does not change a thing we are not going to lower our vigilance we're not going to lower our attention to detail. we're just heard in the last hour or so that the ninth and

tenth always. have been brought out and the news is coming through now is that the eleventh boy is in the cave with to be shipping him through the narrow corridors the eleventh boy soon emerges and this news the coach is also free. is not full only one boy remains inside the cave three time maybe seals and the astroid in dr richard harris with him they will stay until the very end. when the news is filtering out on officially at this stage that all thirteen members of the same out of the kind that these risky mission has been an unrivaled success that this is a miracle rescue. the eighteen day vigil is over.

for the thai authorities who led this mission it is a dream result. in. that bag. and words cannot describe how happy we were. here honestly it was not a result that we thought we would get. is one of the most difficult and dangerous and risky things i don't know in terms of my own personal safety but in terms of the people i was responsible for never doing anything as risky as that and i don't think i ever will again. it was the only

option we had we took it. in a world full of bad news as good as it is this is awesome and i were so cruelly overjoyed that not only is it a good news story question at the end of the day we got the kids back together the parents and that's what matters in my mind. young rich and famous in china one of the news goes behind the great chinese firewall to meet the cyber celebs of a booming multibillion dollar business. on al-jazeera. what is the relationship between culture religion and a deeply divided city everything here is overshadowed by politics even the most

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