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It's a race against time
in Thailand
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to save the young members
of a missing soccer team.
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The boys, ranging in age 11 to 16,
have been feared dead
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after they went missing
with their 24-year-old soccer coach.
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There's no pressure. Okay?
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The fate
of a dozen youth soccer players
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and their coach in Thailand
has captivated people around the world.
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You don't have to
answer any questions you don't want to.
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There are no right or wrong answers.
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This is
the biggest international rescue attempt
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that's ever been staged.
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There's help here from all over the world.
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It's important to us
that you feel comfortable.
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-We can stop at any time.
-Okay.
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Okay.
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It was a drama
the whole world watched unfold.
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Stuck inside a flooded Thai cave
for 17 days.
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The outside world has no idea.
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They probably have no idea at all
what it was actually like inside the cave.
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The truth might be different
from what they think.
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Stay close, Titan.
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That day, we had soccer practice.
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-Help! There are dogs!
-Come on! Let's go!
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Dummy.
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There's a group of dogs. My bike!
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Let's go!
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I'm Eakapol Jantawong, or Eak.
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One foot in!
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A coach is a leader.
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Shuffle, Tao.
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You need discipline.
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Look at your teammates.
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You must love this job.
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Look at your teammates.
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Two passes only. Three touches max.
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All right. Forward! Dom, come in.
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Tao, can you go forward?
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Let's go.
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Most kids
who go to school in this area
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usually become thugs, drinkers or smokers.
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We have the soccer team
to keep them away from drugs.
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Go! Go!
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In terms
of family background,
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they mostly come from poor families.
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Get in! Get in there.
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I want to play
for the national team.
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Hey, defense.
Watch out for your opponents.
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I like Man U.
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Manchester United.
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Man U.
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Finish it.
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Coach Eak likes every play
to be practiced, so we work hard.
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Pass it, Mix!
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I try to support these kids
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so they can get a scholarship
at a high-level academy.
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Let Tao finish it.
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Break time.
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At that time
I was 24 years old.
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Off the field,
I was just their older brother.
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Come on.
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We're not related
but we're brothers.
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We spend time together like a family.
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Top North team versus Top South.
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The Score is 2-0.
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We were planning
to go to the cave after practice.
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City kids go to the mall
in their free time,
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but country kids only have the mountains
and the forests.
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Tham Luang Cave
was the most exciting place.
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I'd been many times.
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After practice, we ate.
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I remember I only had about ten sticks
of grilled pork and a kilo of rice.
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That's what they said.
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I threw my leftovers away.
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Eat the sticky rice.
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What is it?
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It's sticky rice.
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Hurry and get ready.
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-Let's go.
-Come on, let's go.
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After eating,
we rode our bikes to Tham Luang Cave.
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Hurry up.
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-Wait for me.
-I'm coming.
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Me too.
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What?
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Follow me. Come on.
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Let's go.
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Don't do that, Tle.
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There was no rain.
It was hot and sunny.
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Whoo-hoo!
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-Let's go, let's go!
-It's not that. It's…
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Some were excited
for their first cave experience.
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-Come on, let's go!
-Let's do this!
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We raced each other
as hard as we could.
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I was always left behind.
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I'm so tired.
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Titan was the youngest in the group,
and everyone wanted to tease him.
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There wasn't a single day
I didn't get teased.
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Titan's strengths?
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I can't think of any.
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Titan and I are close.
We're like brothers.
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We rode past orange groves.
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Let's pray to Jao Mae.
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Look over there.
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Hurry.
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Let's go.
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We saw the sign and we all said,
"We can't go inside."
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I think the sign said, "There are
flash floods from July to November."
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We went in the cave on June 23rd.
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It wasn't even the rainy season yet.
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Let's pray to Jao Mae Nangnon.
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Jao Mae is the guardian of this place.
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If we do something
without asking for her permission first,
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something bad can happen.
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There's a legend
about Jao Mae Nangnon.
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She was a princess.
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There was a horseman
who fell in love with the princess.
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They ran away together.
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Soldiers chased them.
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The horseman went to look for food.
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The soldiers killed him.
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The princess waited,
but he never came back,
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so she used her hairpin to kill herself.
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The mountains look like the princess.
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-Let's get the bikes.
-Let's go into the cave.
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Come on.
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-Wow.
-I see.
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When we arrived
at the cave entrance,
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the kids were excited and they were like,
"Wow! It's this big?"
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Hurry up.
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Guys,
pray before you enter the cave.
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We'd usually leave everything behind.
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Let's go.
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We didn't bring food.
We only had flashlights when we entered.
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I had Tee lead the way
and I was the last one inside.
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Tee was like my special assistant.
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I felt more at ease
when I had Tee with me.
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Because at the very least, with Tee there,
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he could help take care
of the rest of the kids.
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Let's go.
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I had been inside before.
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So I was confident.
I wanted to take the boys there.
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We were only supposed to stay for an hour.
I had a tutoring session.
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Wow, look at that!
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We were messing around.
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We were teasing Tee
because he had a girlfriend,
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joking that they take pictures together
and hold hands.
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Let's go, let's go.
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They were joking around
the whole way.
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When I saw that. I was happy.
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There are more places
to hide ahead?
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Yes, there are.
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You know you can't go in there.
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When we arrived at the T-junction,
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we couldn't go
further than a few meters to the right.
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We had to take a left to go further.
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I think I was scared
when we got to the T-junction.
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There was a stream of water.
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I was afraid it would flood
and we couldn't get out.
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No matter what season it is,
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there's always water there.
It's never dry.
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I said,
"A lot of water is pouring in.
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Should we go back? We're far enough."
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They said, "Go back by yourself
if you want to. What, are you scared?"
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I let everyone decide for themselves.
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If they chose not to keep going,
we'd all go back.
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We voted. It's more beautiful further in.
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-Let's go. Let's go now.
-Let's go.
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They said, "Let's keep going."
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But I was thinking how I wanted to leave.
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Follow me, follow me.
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Let's go inside.
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We left our bags and shoes.
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We were afraid they'd get wet.
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We kept going with only our flashlights.
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Hey, wait for me.
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I've been working
at Tham Luang-Khun Nam Nang Non
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for about two years.
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In the evening,
I have to check if anyone is still inside.
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It usually starts raining in July.
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It was June.
How can it start raining in June?
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From the entrance,
the length of Tham Luang Cave
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is 10 kilometers and 316 meters.
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When the rainy season starts,
the water flows from the peak.
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The water flows down from every direction.
It's full of holes inside.
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I counted eleven bikes.
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At first, I thought they were adults.
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If you enter without the staff knowing,
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you could be stuck all night.
I mean, who'd know?
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As we went further,
it got more beautiful, so we kept going.
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There was like an aura drawing us.
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I wanted them to see something beautiful.
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I thought I could take them
to learn something new.
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It was very beautiful.
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It was like diamond dust, just amazing.
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There was a big chamber.
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Titan had to leave
before five o'clock for his class.
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I said, "Guys, let's go back.
Time's up. We'll come again."
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Let's go.
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So we started to wade back.
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While we headed back,
we were just chatting like normal.
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Until the T-junction.
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At the T-junction, I thought…
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It was one way in and out.
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"Is this right?" Eak said yes.
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The water flooded the T-junction.
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It was covered entirely,
and we couldn't go forward.
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At that moment, I suddenly thought,
"Oh no. "We're in a big mess."
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We were in shock.
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So I said,
"Let's find a way to get out of here."
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I was going to check another way.
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I decided to dive.
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I felt anxious.
I didn't know if Eak would find a way out.
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I opened my eyes,
but I couldn't see anything.
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I tried to dig.
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I couldn't make it through.
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I was about to run out of breath.
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I thought I was dying.
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At that moment, I shook the rope.
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One, two…
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The boys pulled it.
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One more time.
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I had completely run out of air.
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Two. Again.
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One, two. One, two.
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I told the kids
it's a dead end.
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When Eak said that, I got quiet.
I didn't know what to do.
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Anybody here?
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It was around five or six o'clock,
and they were still inside.
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My boss sent out two more staff
to help the search.
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Where are you?
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Anybody there?
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We walked from the first chamber
to the second chamber.
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We yelled out, but we couldn't find them.
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There was already a lot of water.
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Anyone there?
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They weren't in
the third chamber either.
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I hoped we'd find them at the T-Junction.
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Is anybody here?
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When I got there,
I found their bags and shoes.
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I looked around
until I found their phones.
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At that moment, my heart sank.
They're kids.
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Anyone hear me?
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Can anyone hear us?
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The cave was full of water.
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At that point I thought,
"Man, what do I do?"
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"How can I get these kids out?"
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Hello!
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I said: "Let's get out and call for help."
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When I saw the water level rising,
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I had to do whatever I could
to keep the kids calm.
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So I tried to act as normal as possible.
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I told them, "Maybe it's just the tides."
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I thought the water level would drop.
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So I said,
"Let's go find somewhere to sleep."
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"We'll come back and check tomorrow.
When it drops, we'll get out."
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Two, three, yeah.
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We tried to stay positive.
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I had missed my session. So I thought,
"Perfect. I don't have to go to my tutor."
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No one was panicking
259
00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:50,680
because it was like we were
just going to sleep in a new place.
260
00:20:50,760 --> 00:20:53,120
We're having an adventure,
something like that.
261
00:20:59,080 --> 00:21:01,840
That night, I was only afraid
of my parents scolding me.
262
00:21:01,920 --> 00:21:04,760
Some of us hadn't even told our parents
where we were going.
263
00:21:09,160 --> 00:21:11,200
I thought my parents
would probably look for me
264
00:21:11,280 --> 00:21:13,240
and try to find out where I went.
265
00:21:20,360 --> 00:21:24,040
I worry about Tee when he goes out
or goes somewhere with friends.
266
00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:31,520
I kept waiting, but he never came back.
267
00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:35,800
I was concerned
Tee had gotten into a fight with someone.
268
00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:40,320
A kid from his school came and told me,
"Tee is stuck in the cave."
269
00:21:48,840 --> 00:21:52,320
The first time my husband took me there,
I was scared.
270
00:21:55,120 --> 00:21:57,280
When I went inside the cave
and I saw people…
271
00:21:57,360 --> 00:21:59,480
Go down to the ridge.
272
00:21:59,560 --> 00:22:00,440
Let me help.
273
00:22:01,520 --> 00:22:03,440
Shoes were left at the front.
274
00:22:03,520 --> 00:22:05,280
No one had moved anything.
275
00:22:05,360 --> 00:22:08,040
His bicycle was there,
his bag and belongings.
276
00:22:08,120 --> 00:22:09,640
I was so shocked.
277
00:22:13,480 --> 00:22:16,000
The atmosphere
at the entrance was eerie.
278
00:22:16,880 --> 00:22:19,680
I felt terrible after, I was breathless.
279
00:22:20,280 --> 00:22:23,960
I didn't know what to do but pray
to our sacred beings to protect my son.
280
00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:28,000
I had no idea he was going to the cave.
281
00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:32,520
In the morning he only said that
he was going to play in a soccer match.
282
00:22:33,160 --> 00:22:35,800
He said nothing about going to the cave.
283
00:22:37,520 --> 00:22:41,960
People came to ask me questions,
but I kept crying.
284
00:22:42,040 --> 00:22:44,880
I couldn't answer them
because I was so sad.
285
00:22:57,080 --> 00:22:59,680
The first night
I slept with the flashlight on.
286
00:22:59,760 --> 00:23:02,440
If it got completely dark,
everyone would get scared.
287
00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:07,880
We slept next to each other,
288
00:23:08,800 --> 00:23:10,280
and held one another.
289
00:23:13,640 --> 00:23:16,680
It felt as cold as ice,
we could feel the frostbite.
290
00:23:25,280 --> 00:23:28,160
I could only hear the sound of our breath
and my own heart beating.
291
00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:30,200
It went…
292
00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:32,440
…in rhythm.
293
00:23:47,480 --> 00:23:49,280
The first night,
what I was worried about
294
00:23:49,360 --> 00:23:51,680
was whether or not
we would be able to get out.
295
00:23:54,120 --> 00:23:58,160
I had to take care of these 12 lives
without knowing what would happen next.
296
00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:16,320
Our first story is
an incident that happened last night.
297
00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:18,960
A Thai cave is flooded and 13 are trapped.
298
00:24:19,040 --> 00:24:20,080
DUO NEWS
299
00:24:20,160 --> 00:24:23,040
Right. Even rescue workers
haven't been able to get to them.
300
00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:26,280
Okay, count off.
301
00:24:26,360 --> 00:24:27,200
-One.
-Two.
302
00:24:27,280 --> 00:24:28,120
-Three.
-Four.
303
00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:29,240
-Five.
-Six.
304
00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:32,840
As of now, we have sent eight teams.
305
00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:35,680
In terms of headcount,
that's almost 50 officers.
306
00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:37,840
They're carrying diving gear and food.
307
00:24:42,360 --> 00:24:46,680
At the time, there were very few of us
who knew their way around Tham Luang Cave,
308
00:24:46,760 --> 00:24:48,640
especially those of us
known as cave explorers.
309
00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:51,320
THAM LUANG MAP THAM LUANG
KHUN NAM NANG NON LEGEND
310
00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:54,320
I happened to have
prior knowledge of the cave.
311
00:24:58,440 --> 00:25:02,120
The first time I went to help,
I saw all the water at the T-junction.
312
00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:10,760
We started our rescue mission
with equipment.
313
00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:14,440
Water pumps, ropes,
things we could find around the area.
314
00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:22,000
Now it's up to the water pumps
to clear out the path.
315
00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:27,600
We were fighting massive amounts of water
with limited equipment.
316
00:25:29,840 --> 00:25:32,200
The technology we had wasn't enough
to pump the water out.
317
00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:49,360
Once it starts raining, it won't let up.
318
00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:54,200
I thought, "If it rains heavily, the water
will flood in and fill up everything."
319
00:25:54,840 --> 00:25:56,680
"We probably won't find them
by that point."
320
00:25:58,120 --> 00:26:01,360
If we don't get any more rain,
and the water level drops,
321
00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:03,360
we might be able to pump more out.
322
00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:04,800
That would be good news.
323
00:26:06,120 --> 00:26:10,200
I was glad the governor was there.
He said he would keep us informed.
324
00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:14,280
Every one or two hours,
he'd give us an update
325
00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:19,520
My only hope is that they're doing well
and there will be no more rain.
326
00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:25,800
We were against time and nature.
327
00:26:28,360 --> 00:26:30,520
Oh, the water is rising, see that?
328
00:26:30,600 --> 00:26:31,520
I see.
329
00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:33,640
Yesterday,
the water wasn't this high.
330
00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:35,280
It's rising quickly
331
00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:38,520
-It's getting higher.
-Yeah.
332
00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:43,920
We had to work faster
333
00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:46,200
because more water
was coming in from the back.
334
00:26:52,360 --> 00:26:53,440
It was also very difficult
335
00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:55,920
because the water was coming
from two channels that would meet
336
00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:57,840
and surge towards the cave entrance.
337
00:26:59,960 --> 00:27:01,600
That's what was troubling.
338
00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:17,240
When we woke up, there was water.
339
00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:21,800
When I turned back around,
the water almost got to me
340
00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:25,240
It was quick.
It kept coming. It kept following us.
341
00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:29,280
We had to solve the problem.
342
00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:33,320
So we gathered
and discussed what to do next.
343
00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:38,760
"Do we go forward?"
344
00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:49,560
I told the boys
to use the flashlights sparingly.
345
00:27:57,360 --> 00:27:59,320
"Don't give up, no matter what."
346
00:28:10,360 --> 00:28:12,480
Some of the kids started complaining,
347
00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:15,840
"What are the rescue workers even doing?
Why haven't they come looking for us?"
348
00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:22,800
We need more people.
349
00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:25,560
Seventeen.
350
00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:28,720
How long before they're really in danger?
351
00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:34,280
Uh, I… I cannot expect how long,
but every minute is important.
352
00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:51,360
Slowly. Be careful.
353
00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:57,080
Titan, sweetie,
I'm waiting here to take you home.
354
00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:02,960
Let's go home, son.
Come on, let's go home, Biw!
355
00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:08,480
At that moment,
I felt like I had to call out to Titan.
356
00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:11,240
I thought if he could hear me,
357
00:29:11,320 --> 00:29:13,680
he would at least know
that I was waiting there.
358
00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:24,160
I would go to work
and get off around 8:00 or 9:00 p.m.
359
00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:27,520
So during that time,
he was really close with Eak.
360
00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:37,760
At the time, I could only think about
how much Titan looked up to Eak.
361
00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:39,720
I said to myself,
362
00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:42,480
"You must get Titan out, Eak.
I know you can do it."
363
00:29:44,440 --> 00:29:46,920
Jao Mae,
please give our boys the strength.
364
00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:49,760
Frantic search for 12 boys
and their football coach.
365
00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:53,280
And desperate families
are waiting nervously for news.
366
00:29:54,080 --> 00:29:56,600
It was still
quite a local story at that time.
367
00:29:56,680 --> 00:29:58,640
I didn't think
it would turn into anything.
368
00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:00,240
And I honestly thought at that stage,
369
00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:02,400
"Well, that's... that's 13 dead people."
370
00:30:02,480 --> 00:30:04,560
But I remember
our news director was very, very keen.
371
00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:06,320
He said,
"This is going to be a huge story.
372
00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:14,160
Different units
have been coming here frequently
373
00:30:14,240 --> 00:30:16,440
to provide us with important support.
374
00:30:21,520 --> 00:30:23,720
There were all sorts of people
who came to help.
375
00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:26,840
From doctors and nurses, to soldiers.
376
00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:29,480
It was like the forces
of the whole country were there.
377
00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:32,360
That was what I was most impressed with.
378
00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:37,840
We have a patrol unit searching
379
00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:39,960
for any other possible exit routes.
380
00:30:40,680 --> 00:30:42,440
The Border Patrol will fly a helicopter
381
00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:45,720
to check and see if there are
any other entrances to the cave.
382
00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:52,440
Different local forestry forces
along with part of the military forces,
383
00:30:52,520 --> 00:30:54,600
will patrol the area to find entry points
384
00:30:54,680 --> 00:30:57,720
where water can flood in,
in order to block them.
385
00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:02,520
The SEALs will fly in directly
from Sattahip at midnight.
386
00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:10,480
I was the commander
of the Naval Special Warfare Command,
387
00:31:10,560 --> 00:31:11,600
for the Royal Thai Fleet.
388
00:31:11,680 --> 00:31:14,640
We were racing against time
and rising water levels.
389
00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:16,080
Watch your feet.
390
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:21,400
A bit more, one, two.
391
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:24,400
We had to pump the water out
392
00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:27,640
so the SEALs could find the kids
as quickly as possible.
393
00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:41,560
The SEALs are skilled divers.
394
00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:43,680
When they first arrived,
395
00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:49,800
they tried to dive through
and away from the T-junction.
396
00:31:54,320 --> 00:31:57,680
As the water got higher,
we couldn't go further.
397
00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:20,400
Tee's alarm rang at 6:00
every morning.
398
00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:30,680
We would have been more stressed out
if we didn't know the time.
399
00:32:30,760 --> 00:32:34,080
We would have lived each day
without having any plan at all.
400
00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:46,440
I organized the day as I would
under normal circumstances.
401
00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:51,280
From morning until evening,
we would look for a way out.
402
00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:57,040
Coach Eak told us,
"There's definitely a way out."
403
00:32:57,640 --> 00:33:00,080
And we tried to find one every single day.
404
00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:08,400
I was trying to fight off
mental weakness in myself.
405
00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:19,160
We walked until we got tired.
406
00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:22,360
It was around evening.
407
00:33:23,040 --> 00:33:25,880
The only thing I could think about
was that I was hungry.
408
00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:29,480
You want to give up?
409
00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:33,760
I was so hungry,
and everyone kept talking about food.
410
00:33:33,840 --> 00:33:36,880
That was aggravating.
It was freaking torture.
411
00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:42,560
I imagined food in my head
and I wanted to eat everything.
412
00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:48,640
"I want to order KFC.
Will they deliver to us here?"
413
00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:51,800
We couldn't stop thinking
about food.
414
00:33:51,880 --> 00:33:57,880
One guy dreamed about
drinking his favorite brand of milk.
415
00:33:58,720 --> 00:34:00,880
He was drinking the milk in his dream.
416
00:34:02,160 --> 00:34:06,080
When he woke up, he found himself
with Adul's toe in his mouth.
417
00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:07,880
Pork skewers.
418
00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:15,560
I thought about when we
were eating at the soccer field at noon.
419
00:34:17,520 --> 00:34:19,080
That was my biggest regret.
420
00:34:19,640 --> 00:34:22,600
I ate very little.
I should have eaten a lot.
421
00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:33,080
I dreamed about a meal with my family.
422
00:34:37,640 --> 00:34:40,280
I hoped that I would get to eat
my mother's cooking again.
423
00:34:44,640 --> 00:34:48,240
We didn't have a lot of money.
My mother mostly cooked simple dishes.
424
00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:02,600
I missed my mom's cabbage curry.
425
00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:08,080
I really wanted her cooking.
426
00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:34,000
The only thing I could
tell them was, "Keep drinking water."
427
00:35:34,080 --> 00:35:36,840
We had to do whatever we could to survive.
428
00:35:40,200 --> 00:35:44,520
Drinking water helped a little.
But we were still hungry.
429
00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:52,160
Then I was starting to get very tired.
I had no energy.
430
00:35:52,240 --> 00:35:55,000
I felt dizzy.
I immediately fell when I got up.
431
00:35:58,800 --> 00:36:02,440
I had to protect these guys.
I couldn't let anything happen to them.
432
00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:08,360
My parents passed when I was young.
433
00:36:12,680 --> 00:36:15,160
In order to lighten the burden
on my relatives,
434
00:36:16,040 --> 00:36:18,280
I had to be ordained into monkhood.
435
00:36:18,880 --> 00:36:21,040
I was ordained for over ten years.
436
00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:26,360
Being ordained as a novice monk
437
00:36:26,440 --> 00:36:29,560
has made me a stronger person
mentally and physically.
438
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:35,320
If your mind is weak,
your body will be weak.
439
00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:38,560
If your mind is strong,
your body will be strong.
440
00:36:39,640 --> 00:36:43,320
Before we went to sleep, we would pray
and ask holy spirits for blessings.
441
00:36:46,920 --> 00:36:50,280
We just asked Jao Mae Nangnon
to help us with a miracle.
442
00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:56,280
We meditated to calm down.
443
00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:02,720
To be with ourselves,
and not lose our focus.
444
00:37:03,320 --> 00:37:08,120
We thought, even if no one is coming
to save us, don't panic, just stay calm.
445
00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:17,320
I took a breath
and prayed that we would make it.
446
00:37:38,640 --> 00:37:39,880
It's raining heavily.
447
00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:40,960
THAIRATH MORNING NEWS
448
00:37:41,040 --> 00:37:43,880
The entire ground of the national park
has turned into mud.
449
00:37:43,960 --> 00:37:45,320
RESCUE MISSION FOR 13 LIVES, DAY 4
450
00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:49,360
It's currently quite difficult for
our rescue teams to carry out their work.
451
00:37:51,560 --> 00:37:53,920
How survivable is it inside there?
452
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:55,160
Depends where they are.
453
00:37:55,240 --> 00:37:58,240
Right. And what do you know
of these types of caves?
454
00:37:58,320 --> 00:38:00,840
This system,
if they're… if they're in the right place,
455
00:38:00,920 --> 00:38:03,600
they could survive for five, six days.
456
00:38:04,240 --> 00:38:06,360
But the water now, the… the, uh...
457
00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:08,920
the flood water
is… is getting higher and higher.
458
00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:14,880
I do have hope.
459
00:38:15,600 --> 00:38:19,040
I want all 13 of them
to make it out safely.
460
00:38:23,960 --> 00:38:27,440
They told us to go to various places
to pray for the rain to stop.
461
00:38:28,920 --> 00:38:31,640
Pray to the guardian spirits
at Tham Luang Cave
462
00:38:31,720 --> 00:38:33,320
so that they could get the kids out.
463
00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:38,960
Mark is a small boy.
464
00:38:39,840 --> 00:38:41,400
He's afraid of the dark.
465
00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:46,880
The two of us have struggled
since he was little
466
00:38:46,960 --> 00:38:50,960
because Mark's father and I divorced
when Mark was about a year old.
467
00:38:55,240 --> 00:38:57,760
I didn't know
if my child was going to survive.
468
00:39:03,080 --> 00:39:04,840
It was too much for me,
469
00:39:05,920 --> 00:39:07,400
so I fainted.
470
00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:09,120
I couldn't control myself.
471
00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:11,920
Are you feeling better?
Here, this is ammonia.
472
00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:14,800
-Massage her.
-She has regained consciousness.
473
00:39:31,120 --> 00:39:32,960
The water kept getting higher,
474
00:39:33,040 --> 00:39:35,520
so we went further in
to try to find a way out.
475
00:39:39,480 --> 00:39:41,920
We reached
the farthest point we could go.
476
00:39:45,880 --> 00:39:49,000
We just couldn't find a way out.
There was only darkness.
477
00:39:51,200 --> 00:39:52,600
I couldn't take it anymore.
478
00:39:53,520 --> 00:39:54,920
I wanted to see the light.
479
00:40:00,280 --> 00:40:02,280
One of the boys shouted out,
480
00:40:02,360 --> 00:40:06,280
"I can't take it anymore.
I'm tired. I want to go home.
481
00:40:06,360 --> 00:40:10,880
Hey, we're going to make it. Trust me.
482
00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:14,800
With all the stress piling on
483
00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:18,760
and hunger on top of that,
it was getting harder to cope.
484
00:40:23,600 --> 00:40:25,400
Everyone blamed themselves.
485
00:40:25,480 --> 00:40:28,440
We all thought, "We shouldn't have come."
486
00:40:32,840 --> 00:40:35,760
Eak said,
"If anyone wants to cry, let it all out."
487
00:40:36,280 --> 00:40:38,760
I wanted to see my parents. I was hungry.
488
00:40:41,040 --> 00:40:43,440
We told each other
that we loved each other.
489
00:40:44,440 --> 00:40:48,120
At that time I was so stressed out.
490
00:40:50,640 --> 00:40:52,360
I didn't think we'd make it.
491
00:40:55,160 --> 00:40:59,280
I would tell them, "No matter
what happens, we must never fight."
492
00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:01,320
"We must always help each other out."
493
00:41:07,400 --> 00:41:09,640
I think it got quiet for five minutes.
494
00:41:10,240 --> 00:41:12,720
Then I started hearing
the sound of a helicopter.
495
00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:14,200
Like it was flying over.
496
00:41:17,400 --> 00:41:19,320
-Hurry!
-Help us!
497
00:41:21,400 --> 00:41:25,160
I heard what sounded like someone
drilling, or digging into something.
498
00:41:27,240 --> 00:41:28,440
We're going to make it.
499
00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:30,680
Stop. Stop.
500
00:41:32,560 --> 00:41:33,880
Everyone was excited.
501
00:41:33,960 --> 00:41:35,200
We were hopeful again.
502
00:41:35,280 --> 00:41:37,280
We had lost hope earlier
and we got it back.
503
00:41:37,360 --> 00:41:40,120
Hello! Please help us!
504
00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:42,800
Is someone coming to rescue us?
505
00:41:43,760 --> 00:41:45,080
Please help us!
506
00:41:46,480 --> 00:41:49,680
We tried to find where it was coming from,
see if it was a person.
507
00:41:54,480 --> 00:41:59,320
Suddenly, I heard what sounded like water.
I heard the water gushing in.
508
00:42:00,200 --> 00:42:02,880
So I tried to look.
Then I saw this black thing, like a wave.
509
00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:08,520
It was like a flash flood.
510
00:42:10,960 --> 00:42:13,560
When I saw that,
I told everyone to get to a higher place.
511
00:42:20,120 --> 00:42:22,200
Everyone ran up, pushing each other.
512
00:42:33,840 --> 00:42:36,560
If Eak hadn't jumped,
he would've been swept away by the water.
513
00:42:43,520 --> 00:42:44,760
It was so loud.
514
00:42:44,840 --> 00:42:46,360
Then it got quiet.
515
00:42:47,240 --> 00:42:48,480
The water got still.
516
00:42:55,400 --> 00:42:57,840
We were at the highest point in the cave.
517
00:43:00,960 --> 00:43:05,360
We couldn't find a way out.
The entrance was completely flooded.
518
00:43:15,720 --> 00:43:17,760
The water was flooding the cave.
519
00:43:18,640 --> 00:43:21,080
It was crashing into the walls.
520
00:43:27,360 --> 00:43:29,320
The water was surging towards us.
521
00:43:31,960 --> 00:43:33,440
I had never seen it before.
522
00:43:36,280 --> 00:43:37,560
We had to retreat.
523
00:43:42,200 --> 00:43:44,560
We had to go back
and start from square one.
524
00:43:48,880 --> 00:43:50,160
It was depressing.
525
00:43:57,360 --> 00:43:59,520
We were trapped on both sides.
526
00:44:02,080 --> 00:44:05,200
We had no options left.
That meant we had to stay.
527
00:44:05,280 --> 00:44:06,880
We couldn't go anywhere else.
528
00:44:11,680 --> 00:44:14,080
We just hoped
that the water would stop there.
529
00:44:14,680 --> 00:44:15,640
Hmm.
530
00:44:21,800 --> 00:44:25,640
I thought about how we would die.
We would probably die drowning.
531
00:44:29,960 --> 00:44:30,920
That's what I thought.
532
00:44:41,920 --> 00:44:43,400
I worried about my mother.
533
00:44:43,480 --> 00:44:47,240
She'd already lost one child.
I didn't want her to lose another one.
534
00:44:51,720 --> 00:44:53,720
Tle is a sensitive child.
535
00:44:57,360 --> 00:45:00,080
As an only child,
he was the center of attention.
536
00:45:02,560 --> 00:45:05,160
I have to hold him when he sleeps.
537
00:45:05,240 --> 00:45:08,360
We sleep in the same bed, the three of us.
538
00:45:10,480 --> 00:45:12,040
I blamed it on my luck.
539
00:45:12,720 --> 00:45:14,160
I must have bad karma
540
00:45:14,240 --> 00:45:17,040
because I didn't get to
raise my first child either.
541
00:45:19,400 --> 00:45:21,840
If I lose this one too, I couldn't live.
542
00:45:35,960 --> 00:45:37,640
I did blame myself.
543
00:45:37,720 --> 00:45:41,680
I was the one who brought them there.
I had to take responsibility.
544
00:45:43,360 --> 00:45:45,960
I wouldn't want anyone to experience loss.
545
00:45:47,640 --> 00:45:50,720
Experiencing loss
was something very painful for me.
546
00:45:52,320 --> 00:45:55,200
When I was six years old,
my younger brother died.
547
00:45:56,280 --> 00:45:58,880
Then, my mother,
who couldn't cope with the loss,
548
00:45:58,960 --> 00:46:00,240
also passed away.
549
00:46:02,760 --> 00:46:03,920
And not long after,
550
00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:07,040
my father started falling ill
and he died too.
551
00:46:12,440 --> 00:46:16,200
If one of them,
if any of them didn't make it out alive,
552
00:46:16,840 --> 00:46:18,520
I wouldn't be able to face…
553
00:46:20,520 --> 00:46:22,840
to look their families in the eye.
554
00:46:24,920 --> 00:46:27,840
I wouldn't be able to confront them
and tell them how...
555
00:46:29,760 --> 00:46:32,320
I brought their boys into the cave to die.
556
00:47:05,040 --> 00:47:06,880
We had nowhere else to go.
557
00:47:07,440 --> 00:47:10,200
The only way to go was up,
and dig our way out.
558
00:47:18,240 --> 00:47:20,320
We had no idea how thick it was.
559
00:47:24,000 --> 00:47:26,880
"Help each other dig.
We'll get through." I told them.
560
00:47:30,400 --> 00:47:32,360
We would take turns digging.
561
00:47:32,880 --> 00:47:34,720
Without giving them something to do,
562
00:47:34,800 --> 00:47:38,640
I thought that they would just sit around
talking or start thinking too much.
563
00:47:39,280 --> 00:47:41,720
Then they would start
getting on each other's nerves.
564
00:47:42,400 --> 00:47:44,080
We had to help each other.
565
00:47:44,160 --> 00:47:47,960
-Let's help each other.
-Come on. Move that.
566
00:47:48,040 --> 00:47:49,160
Come help me.
567
00:47:51,280 --> 00:47:52,640
We had to work together.
568
00:47:52,720 --> 00:47:55,560
It was teamwork
just like when we played soccer together.
569
00:47:56,120 --> 00:47:58,520
We can't play soccer alone, can we?
570
00:47:58,600 --> 00:48:00,320
All of us have to play together.
571
00:48:04,520 --> 00:48:06,440
We win and lose together.
572
00:48:10,640 --> 00:48:13,800
-Hey, slow down.
-Go forward.
573
00:48:15,120 --> 00:48:17,960
The kids asked me,
"How far do you think it is?"
574
00:48:18,040 --> 00:48:20,320
I said, "Five meters."
575
00:48:21,600 --> 00:48:23,000
Everyone believed that.
576
00:48:25,560 --> 00:48:28,680
We imagined
that we'd turn up in the orange groves.
577
00:48:58,920 --> 00:49:01,960
If we made it out
we would eat other people's oranges.
578
00:49:03,040 --> 00:49:05,880
Would they yell at us?
Would the owners kick us out?
579
00:49:06,600 --> 00:49:10,720
We came up with a whole plan.
We just used our imagination.
580
00:49:15,640 --> 00:49:19,080
Once we got out,
we would go down from the orange groves.
581
00:49:19,160 --> 00:49:22,600
There would be a small shop
where we would buy something to eat.
582
00:49:22,680 --> 00:49:26,560
Then, we would go to the cave entrance
and get our bikes and head home.
583
00:49:41,000 --> 00:49:42,720
We have to make it outta here.
584
00:49:43,600 --> 00:49:45,480
So we kept on digging.
585
00:49:49,680 --> 00:49:52,080
Some started wishing
for an asteroid to hit Earth.
586
00:49:55,480 --> 00:49:57,840
After the hit, we could get out.
587
00:50:00,920 --> 00:50:05,240
The boys played around, teased each other,
made jokes, that helped them quite a bit.
588
00:50:08,040 --> 00:50:11,880
We joked about "If a naked woman
walked in here, what would you do?"
589
00:50:13,840 --> 00:50:18,840
Adul said, "That's good.
I'm tired. We'll make her dig."
590
00:50:21,000 --> 00:50:24,640
Everyone burst out laughing.
No one was expecting that.
591
00:50:27,120 --> 00:50:30,840
Many funny things happened back then,
but we weren't in the mood to laugh.
592
00:50:30,920 --> 00:50:32,000
We were tense.
593
00:50:40,880 --> 00:50:44,000
It was like our last hope.
It was the only way.
594
00:50:52,320 --> 00:50:54,280
I could just
really feel the interest
595
00:50:54,360 --> 00:50:56,400
in what was happening
day after day after day.
596
00:50:56,960 --> 00:50:59,880
In time, it became like a mini village
in the middle of the jungle
597
00:50:59,960 --> 00:51:02,160
where there were
hundreds and hundreds of people.
598
00:51:02,240 --> 00:51:07,400
It became a huge global phenomenon.
599
00:51:07,480 --> 00:51:09,840
The fate of a dozen youth soccer players
600
00:51:09,920 --> 00:51:13,240
and their coach in Thailand
has captivated people around the world.
601
00:51:14,360 --> 00:51:16,520
Twelve youth soccer players
and their coach
602
00:51:16,600 --> 00:51:18,320
have been reported missing in a cave.
603
00:51:18,400 --> 00:51:22,120
Has anyone said
how long this group can survive?
604
00:51:22,200 --> 00:51:23,400
They just don't know.
605
00:51:23,480 --> 00:51:25,720
Rescuers have been
working around the clock
606
00:51:25,800 --> 00:51:28,680
pumping thousands of gallons of water
out of that cave
607
00:51:28,760 --> 00:51:31,600
so they can get better access
and find the group inside.
608
00:51:31,680 --> 00:51:33,360
I remember, we got there.
609
00:51:33,440 --> 00:51:35,400
I think most people just thought
they'd be gone.
610
00:51:35,480 --> 00:51:38,960
I think that was really what it was.
Like, surely, they can't be alive.
611
00:51:40,200 --> 00:51:41,840
But what was happening in those early days
612
00:51:41,920 --> 00:51:43,680
was that they were trying
to pump the water out.
613
00:51:43,760 --> 00:51:45,640
And then they'd send in the Navy SEALs.
614
00:51:45,720 --> 00:51:49,480
But, basically, the current
was so strong, they just couldn't get in.
615
00:51:50,200 --> 00:51:52,880
And that's when
they asked for international help.
616
00:51:55,200 --> 00:51:57,480
Yesterday, we said every minute counts.
617
00:51:58,000 --> 00:52:00,120
Today, every half a minute,
618
00:52:00,200 --> 00:52:03,480
every ten seconds
all count to save the boys' lives.
619
00:52:04,080 --> 00:52:06,680
But we are still unable
to fight against the water.
620
00:52:08,680 --> 00:52:10,400
Today we have experts on site
621
00:52:10,480 --> 00:52:13,440
who have years of experience
cave diving around the world.
622
00:52:17,160 --> 00:52:20,160
There were many moving parts
for this mission.
623
00:52:21,240 --> 00:52:24,120
I think there were around 8,000 people.
624
00:52:24,880 --> 00:52:29,040
There were divers
from the US, Australia, and China.
625
00:52:33,040 --> 00:52:36,120
So, there's this group
of volunteer cave divers.
626
00:52:36,200 --> 00:52:40,240
A very… kind of desperate bunch
of oddballs from all around the world.
627
00:52:42,720 --> 00:52:44,640
So, very early on, I just said,
628
00:52:44,720 --> 00:52:47,320
"Look, if there's anything
we can do from Australia
629
00:52:47,400 --> 00:52:51,080
with manpower
or… or phone advice or anything,
630
00:52:51,160 --> 00:52:54,400
uh, just let us know,
and I can help facilitate that."
631
00:52:55,080 --> 00:52:56,840
But we asked and nothing happened…
632
00:52:56,920 --> 00:53:01,360
Rick Stanton and John Volanthen
are two very well-known cave divers
633
00:53:01,440 --> 00:53:03,920
at the elite level in this sport.
634
00:53:04,800 --> 00:53:09,280
My dialogue with Rick had started
a few days before we actually left
635
00:53:09,360 --> 00:53:10,960
to go over to Thailand.
636
00:53:11,680 --> 00:53:16,320
The description of the cave from Rick
and John was that it was fully in flood.
637
00:53:16,400 --> 00:53:19,360
The cave was essentially impenetrable
by the divers.
638
00:53:26,000 --> 00:53:30,600
The Thai Navy SEALs and Ben Reymenants
and one of Ben's dive buddies
639
00:53:30,680 --> 00:53:34,600
were involved
in laying some lines early on in the cave.
640
00:53:37,320 --> 00:53:41,040
But the information we were receiving
from a few people like Ben on the ground
641
00:53:41,120 --> 00:53:43,280
was that the conditions were really dire.
642
00:53:46,080 --> 00:53:47,080
Make no mistake.
643
00:53:47,160 --> 00:53:49,920
In a normal situation,
I would have never jumped in there.
644
00:53:50,000 --> 00:53:51,120
Out of the question.
645
00:53:53,760 --> 00:53:58,560
Strong currents and zero visibility.
I was really not very hopeful.
646
00:54:03,880 --> 00:54:06,880
The cave was complex.
It was dark.
647
00:54:06,960 --> 00:54:10,840
We had to lay the line.
The first team went in.
648
00:54:11,520 --> 00:54:13,520
They laid the ropes as they went.
649
00:54:15,120 --> 00:54:17,600
They came back when they reached the end.
650
00:54:18,360 --> 00:54:22,240
And the next team would go in,
and continue laying the lines.
651
00:54:24,160 --> 00:54:27,560
Rotating around the clock,
the British divers, they were laying rope.
652
00:54:27,640 --> 00:54:31,480
Then the Navy SEALs, then us,
and rotating, literally, around the clock.
653
00:54:35,720 --> 00:54:39,080
We had to get in there.
We needed to find the kids.
654
00:54:39,640 --> 00:54:41,520
We had to rescue the boys.
655
00:54:53,360 --> 00:54:56,480
The fifth, sixth,
and seventh day were all the same.
656
00:55:04,240 --> 00:55:05,800
What's up with the light?
657
00:55:06,960 --> 00:55:09,080
Our flashlights were about to die.
658
00:55:12,000 --> 00:55:15,240
We were worried we wouldn't be able
to do anything without them.
659
00:55:19,360 --> 00:55:20,280
We kept digging.
660
00:55:20,960 --> 00:55:24,120
All we did was dig, sit,
and drink water, that's it.
661
00:55:29,960 --> 00:55:32,360
If we stayed still, we would lose hope.
662
00:55:32,440 --> 00:55:34,760
If we kept digging,
we might have a chance.
663
00:55:41,560 --> 00:55:44,680
As we were digging, we all heard sounds.
664
00:55:44,760 --> 00:55:46,920
I heard kids playing and crying.
665
00:55:51,800 --> 00:55:55,120
I heard a rooster crow.
And some of the boys heard dogs.
666
00:55:58,800 --> 00:56:01,800
We had no idea where they came from,
but we heard them.
667
00:56:03,360 --> 00:56:04,520
Our brains were foggy.
668
00:56:04,600 --> 00:56:06,040
You okay?
669
00:56:08,040 --> 00:56:09,560
Hey. Come on.
670
00:56:11,920 --> 00:56:13,960
If anyone was feeling down,
671
00:56:14,040 --> 00:56:15,840
they would help cheer each other up.
672
00:56:24,040 --> 00:56:28,440
I'd tell them, "Someone is coming
to rescue us. We are going to survive."
673
00:56:28,520 --> 00:56:30,040
"We're not going to die here."
674
00:56:33,040 --> 00:56:35,400
Tee consoled us, gave us hope.
675
00:56:37,960 --> 00:56:39,960
I had to make sure they would survive.
676
00:56:40,040 --> 00:56:42,760
I brought them in here,
so I had to get them out.
677
00:56:54,080 --> 00:56:55,720
I missed my mother and family.
678
00:56:59,920 --> 00:57:03,040
They slept in my arms,
next to me on both sides.
679
00:57:10,080 --> 00:57:11,920
We held each other as we slept.
680
00:57:12,000 --> 00:57:14,840
It was like hugging my family.
It felt good.
681
00:57:36,080 --> 00:57:37,640
I couldn't sleep.
682
00:57:38,360 --> 00:57:42,880
So I asked my husband,
"What are we going to do if he dies?"
683
00:57:44,960 --> 00:57:47,120
I wasn't able to eat for about five days.
684
00:57:50,400 --> 00:57:53,920
I'm worried about my son.
I wonder what he's doing in there.
685
00:57:54,040 --> 00:57:58,200
-How have you been doing?
-I've been so stressed out.
686
00:57:58,280 --> 00:58:00,240
What do you want to tell your son?
687
00:58:00,320 --> 00:58:02,080
I want to see him.
688
00:58:05,320 --> 00:58:07,080
I didn't want to sleep.
689
00:58:07,160 --> 00:58:11,200
They wanted me to,
so they tried to give me sleeping pills.
690
00:58:11,280 --> 00:58:12,920
I didn't take them.
691
00:58:13,000 --> 00:58:16,000
I was afraid that if my son came out,
I would miss it.
692
00:58:17,600 --> 00:58:21,880
-Are you still hopeful?
-It's fifty-fifty.
693
00:58:26,840 --> 00:58:29,600
I felt so disheartened
whenever someone asked,
694
00:58:29,680 --> 00:58:31,560
"If something happens to your son,
695
00:58:31,640 --> 00:58:34,320
where will you find the money
for the funeral?"
696
00:58:34,400 --> 00:58:35,800
I was so devastated.
697
00:58:38,160 --> 00:58:42,040
I pray that we find the boys
no matter what happens to them.
698
00:58:42,120 --> 00:58:44,680
Let us find their bodies at least.
699
00:58:59,240 --> 00:59:03,160
It can be said that as of now,
the mission hasn't been successful.
700
00:59:03,240 --> 00:59:04,520
People are anxious.
701
00:59:06,800 --> 00:59:11,240
Today, Phra Khuva Boonchum,
who is Chiang Rai's most respectable monk,
702
00:59:11,320 --> 00:59:12,800
has been invited here.
703
00:59:14,280 --> 00:59:17,400
He has come to perform the rituals
to beg for forgiveness
704
00:59:17,480 --> 00:59:19,520
and to open the cave entrance.
705
00:59:23,920 --> 00:59:27,720
Phra Khuva Boonchum came to free
the spirits and say a prayer for them.
706
00:59:29,640 --> 00:59:35,040
Legend has it that Khuva Boonchum
was Jao Mae's loved one in a past life.
707
00:59:36,760 --> 00:59:40,480
Before Khuva Boonchum came,
it rained all day.
708
00:59:40,560 --> 00:59:44,080
It rained heavily.
But as soon as he came, the rain stopped.
709
00:59:48,240 --> 00:59:51,400
When Phra Khuva Boonchum
arrived, he meditated.
710
00:59:51,480 --> 00:59:53,360
He said the kids were fine.
711
00:59:53,480 --> 00:59:56,600
They were together.
They were alive, they weren't dead.
712
00:59:59,120 --> 01:00:02,800
I stopped crying
because I was told my son was all right.
713
01:00:03,560 --> 01:00:05,120
I was happy.
714
01:00:05,200 --> 01:00:07,400
-Let's go. All set.
-Exit on the right.
715
01:00:07,480 --> 01:00:09,400
Go right.
716
01:00:16,440 --> 01:00:20,280
Let's pray for the children
who have been missing for the past week.
717
01:00:22,360 --> 01:00:24,240
They were praying all around the world.
718
01:00:30,560 --> 01:00:34,160
It was a huge amount of good karma.
It came from everywhere.
719
01:01:03,680 --> 01:01:07,320
By the ninth day,
we almost had no energy left.
720
01:01:13,760 --> 01:01:15,680
We were on the edge of life and death.
721
01:01:19,960 --> 01:01:22,880
Eak worked harder than anyone
to try to get us out.
722
01:01:27,600 --> 01:01:29,560
His hands were shredded.
723
01:01:36,880 --> 01:01:39,200
I was a mess on the inside.
724
01:01:39,280 --> 01:01:43,440
It got to be too much while I was digging,
so I would cry secretly.
725
01:01:49,200 --> 01:01:51,600
I didn't want them to feel my weakness.
726
01:02:00,840 --> 01:02:02,960
I was afraid people would forget me.
727
01:02:04,760 --> 01:02:07,880
That they might have thought,
"These 13 kids weren't going to make it."
728
01:02:07,960 --> 01:02:09,440
And they would forget about us.
729
01:02:14,720 --> 01:02:17,280
We were all in really bad shape.
730
01:02:17,400 --> 01:02:20,600
Everyone was sitting around
hugging each other, ready to give up.
731
01:02:20,680 --> 01:02:23,040
We thought, "At this point,
we don't care if we die."
732
01:02:46,760 --> 01:02:51,160
Some of them said,
"Whoever dies first will be eaten."
733
01:02:52,880 --> 01:02:56,680
If anyone died, that person would
become food for their friends
734
01:02:56,760 --> 01:02:58,840
so that their friends would survive.
735
01:03:07,840 --> 01:03:10,760
That night, I went to sleep
and I started saying,
736
01:03:10,840 --> 01:03:14,440
"Tomorrow, if we still
can't get through, that's it."
737
01:03:40,080 --> 01:03:42,160
My body couldn't take it anymore.
738
01:03:42,240 --> 01:03:46,400
I was lying in one position.
Curled up and hugging myself.
739
01:03:52,240 --> 01:03:53,760
I couldn't think.
740
01:04:01,600 --> 01:04:04,360
Everyone was thinking,
"This is probably our last day."
741
01:04:06,840 --> 01:04:08,680
It was like I was dying.
742
01:04:14,160 --> 01:04:17,240
Around that time,
our batteries were about to run out.
743
01:04:18,760 --> 01:04:22,400
So Eak told us to turn off the flashlights
and just be with each other.
744
01:04:39,040 --> 01:04:40,720
Then, I heard something.
745
01:04:46,640 --> 01:04:49,120
It sounded like… air bubbles.
746
01:04:59,640 --> 01:05:02,000
Then I heard what sounded like, "Hello."
747
01:05:04,880 --> 01:05:06,600
It was like a force had woken me.
748
01:05:12,440 --> 01:05:14,680
The hunger and exhaustion were gone.
749
01:05:17,760 --> 01:05:19,240
Everyone was shocked.
750
01:05:19,320 --> 01:05:22,120
We rushed down.
I said, "Hurry, before they leave!"
751
01:05:45,080 --> 01:05:48,000
I almost fell into the water
when I jumped down.
752
01:05:50,480 --> 01:05:52,000
I cried. I cried.
753
01:05:52,960 --> 01:05:54,160
Here, put your hand.
754
01:05:54,240 --> 01:05:56,560
-Thank you.
-Hello. Thank you.
755
01:05:56,640 --> 01:05:58,200
How… How many of you?
756
01:05:58,280 --> 01:06:00,080
-Thirteen.
-Thirteen?
757
01:06:00,160 --> 01:06:01,880
-Yes, thirteen.
-Brilliant.
758
01:06:01,960 --> 01:06:03,720
Yeah, yeah.
759
01:06:03,800 --> 01:06:05,760
Hey, somebody ask him for food.
760
01:06:10,440 --> 01:06:13,320
We were so happy.
Someone came to rescue us.
761
01:06:13,400 --> 01:06:16,680
I didn't know what to say.
762
01:06:17,200 --> 01:06:19,400
I was so grateful
someone finally came for us.
763
01:06:19,480 --> 01:06:24,080
You have been here 10 days.
You're very strong.
764
01:06:24,160 --> 01:06:26,360
-Strong.
-Very strong.
765
01:06:28,440 --> 01:06:31,120
-Who can speak English?
-We hungry!
766
01:06:31,200 --> 01:06:33,000
I know. I understand. We'll come.
767
01:06:33,080 --> 01:06:35,160
He knows.
He'll come back again.
768
01:06:35,240 --> 01:06:36,640
Okay? We'll come.
769
01:06:38,120 --> 01:06:40,080
He's going to take a picture.
770
01:06:40,160 --> 01:06:41,920
Come here. Let's move back.
771
01:06:42,520 --> 01:06:43,800
Tell him we're hungry.
772
01:06:43,880 --> 01:06:46,800
I already did.
He said he understood.
773
01:06:47,560 --> 01:06:48,960
He brought some chocolate.
774
01:06:50,360 --> 01:06:52,160
"Should we ask him? Should we ask?"
775
01:06:54,800 --> 01:06:58,800
But nobody dared to ask him.
It was freaking hilarious.
776
01:06:58,880 --> 01:07:02,880
-I am very happy.
-We… We are happy too.
777
01:07:02,960 --> 01:07:04,680
Yes. Thank you so much.
778
01:07:04,760 --> 01:07:06,000
-Thank you so much.
-Okay.
779
01:07:08,080 --> 01:07:11,320
I was proud.
I was so proud of the boys
780
01:07:11,960 --> 01:07:15,400
If the boys hadn't been strong enough
mentally as well as physically,
781
01:07:15,480 --> 01:07:18,000
they probably wouldn't have survived
to be rescued.
782
01:07:20,200 --> 01:07:22,200
Tomorrow, many of us come.
783
01:07:23,040 --> 01:07:24,360
Okay, thank you.
784
01:07:25,200 --> 01:07:27,800
They said we should wait here.
785
01:07:29,520 --> 01:07:31,440
The diver said to wait here.
786
01:07:32,160 --> 01:07:34,160
That Thai divers were coming.
787
01:07:39,800 --> 01:07:41,560
Hurry.
788
01:07:43,320 --> 01:07:45,760
When I heard that, I was confused.
789
01:07:45,840 --> 01:07:48,200
I thought the foreign diver
was getting us out,
790
01:07:48,280 --> 01:07:49,880
but he already dove away.
791
01:08:04,200 --> 01:08:06,480
-Please let us through.
-Police.
792
01:08:06,560 --> 01:08:08,840
-Stand aside please.
-Be careful.
793
01:08:10,040 --> 01:08:13,240
I saw people cheering.
So I told her, "Let's go check."
794
01:08:14,840 --> 01:08:16,240
BIGKREN
795
01:08:17,920 --> 01:08:19,000
I was so happy.
796
01:08:23,960 --> 01:08:25,720
We were hugging and cheering.
797
01:08:26,760 --> 01:08:28,040
He's coming home.
798
01:08:29,760 --> 01:08:32,560
We felt alive again.
It was like the sky had opened.
799
01:08:42,640 --> 01:08:45,760
I felt relieved.
It was like a flower had bloomed.
800
01:08:46,400 --> 01:08:50,400
It was such a relief.
I was happier than I'd ever been before.
801
01:08:50,480 --> 01:08:51,720
I was overjoyed.
802
01:08:55,320 --> 01:08:56,800
Press conference is starting.
803
01:08:58,280 --> 01:09:00,240
All 13 boys are safe.
804
01:09:02,160 --> 01:09:03,800
MISSING THAI BOYS MIRACULOUSLY FOUND ALIVE
805
01:09:03,880 --> 01:09:06,760
After ten days missing,
they have been found alive.
806
01:09:06,840 --> 01:09:11,000
Rescue workers have found
12 boys and their soccer coach alive.
807
01:09:11,080 --> 01:09:15,360
We just got the news that the boys
have been found. It's incredible news.
808
01:09:25,320 --> 01:09:27,720
That night, we all celebrated.
809
01:09:32,720 --> 01:09:35,560
We hugged each other. We sang songs.
810
01:09:39,840 --> 01:09:41,840
We weren't stressed or scared anymore.
811
01:09:47,480 --> 01:09:50,040
Getting to that point
after such a stressful time
812
01:09:50,120 --> 01:09:52,720
felt like a weight
had been lifted off my shoulders.
813
01:09:52,800 --> 01:09:55,720
We made it.
Everything we had done was worth it.
814
01:10:00,440 --> 01:10:03,120
I only thought about
what was waiting for us.
815
01:10:16,800 --> 01:10:18,880
-Are they all okay?
-They are.
816
01:10:18,960 --> 01:10:21,000
Will you send in
a mental health counselor?
817
01:10:21,600 --> 01:10:24,480
For their safety,
we're first sending in a SEAL team.
818
01:10:24,560 --> 01:10:26,600
Let's help move the tanks.
819
01:10:30,080 --> 01:10:32,080
I could hear the rescue workers.
820
01:10:38,680 --> 01:10:41,760
They said, "You know,
you're famous around the world."
821
01:10:41,840 --> 01:10:45,240
We all thought, "Really?"
We were just country kids.
822
01:10:45,320 --> 01:10:46,440
I couldn't believe it.
823
01:10:47,720 --> 01:10:50,360
You still don't believe me?
824
01:10:52,240 --> 01:10:53,760
We were getting food.
825
01:10:53,840 --> 01:10:56,680
The only thing I thought about was,
"Food is coming."
826
01:11:01,720 --> 01:11:04,280
That day,
we got to eat these pouches.
827
01:11:07,840 --> 01:11:10,120
Everyone was a little disappointed.
828
01:11:10,200 --> 01:11:12,440
The food wasn't very good.
We just ate to survive.
829
01:11:13,640 --> 01:11:14,800
Is everybody okay?
830
01:11:16,960 --> 01:11:20,040
When they came,
I asked, "How are we gonna get out?
831
01:11:20,120 --> 01:11:21,840
"The water level hasn't dropped."
832
01:11:22,520 --> 01:11:25,880
They weren't sure yet.
They would let us know what to do.
833
01:11:26,960 --> 01:11:28,960
What's your name?
834
01:11:31,400 --> 01:11:33,200
A group of four rescue workers
835
01:11:33,280 --> 01:11:34,680
stayed behind with the kids.
836
01:11:42,760 --> 01:11:44,560
Who's that in the dark blue T-shirt?
837
01:11:45,640 --> 01:11:46,640
Who is that?
838
01:11:46,720 --> 01:11:48,040
-Ae's kid.
-It's Titan.
839
01:11:48,120 --> 01:11:49,640
Look at Titan sleeping.
840
01:11:51,320 --> 01:11:53,560
I cried when I saw how thin my son was.
841
01:11:53,640 --> 01:11:56,160
-I almost didn't recognize him.
-I almost didn't recognize him.
842
01:11:57,160 --> 01:11:58,520
At least he was safe.
843
01:12:05,160 --> 01:12:09,200
We couldn't stay happy for long,
there were still challenges ahead.
844
01:12:12,640 --> 01:12:14,720
The next thing we needed to figure out
845
01:12:14,800 --> 01:12:18,440
was creating a strategy
to get the kids out safely.
846
01:12:21,520 --> 01:12:24,480
For the Thai government,
they didn't know what to do.
847
01:12:24,560 --> 01:12:28,040
And that's certainly
not a criticism of the Thais,
848
01:12:28,120 --> 01:12:32,040
because any country in the world
wouldn't have had a… a plan for this.
849
01:12:32,120 --> 01:12:34,920
It was a situation
that hadn't been experienced before.
850
01:12:37,120 --> 01:12:39,880
There are a lot
of very experienced cave divers worldwide
851
01:12:39,960 --> 01:12:42,800
who would have been
up to the task of getting to the point
852
01:12:42,880 --> 01:12:45,800
where they could assist
with rescuing the kids.
853
01:12:45,880 --> 01:12:49,480
But the one thing that set us apart
from many others
854
01:12:49,560 --> 01:12:53,920
was the… the medical skills
we could also bring, uh, to this rescue,
855
01:12:54,000 --> 01:12:59,080
and obviously, as an anesthetist
and as a vet with anesthesia experience,
856
01:12:59,160 --> 01:13:02,640
you know, that, uh, was
a very important asset for us to have.
857
01:13:05,440 --> 01:13:09,760
The risk of diving out
conscious boys was immense.
858
01:13:09,840 --> 01:13:12,360
The likelihood
was that those boys would panic.
859
01:13:12,960 --> 01:13:15,000
And panic is death, basically.
860
01:13:15,080 --> 01:13:17,000
Three hundred is still…
861
01:13:18,920 --> 01:13:21,000
We thought of different methods.
862
01:13:21,080 --> 01:13:24,200
I even thought that maybe we would
have to wait for the water to drop,
863
01:13:24,280 --> 01:13:27,080
which would have taken four months.
864
01:13:27,160 --> 01:13:30,240
In the meantime,
we would send in food and water.
865
01:13:34,600 --> 01:13:37,240
I was shocked when I heard
about the plan for us to stay there
866
01:13:37,320 --> 01:13:40,440
until the water level dropped
or until the end of the season.
867
01:13:40,960 --> 01:13:44,080
I thought, "What?
Why do we have to wait that long?"
868
01:13:47,480 --> 01:13:48,920
I felt discouraged.
869
01:13:52,320 --> 01:13:54,280
As it was thought about more,
870
01:13:54,360 --> 01:13:57,640
obviously the conditions
weren't all that sanitary in there,
871
01:13:57,720 --> 01:14:00,360
and that became a lot worse
once the boys were eating
872
01:14:00,440 --> 01:14:02,680
because that has inevitable products.
873
01:14:03,720 --> 01:14:08,800
So they were likely to be
getting sick, getting infections with,
874
01:14:08,880 --> 01:14:11,240
you know,
beyond the reach of…of medical help.
875
01:14:11,320 --> 01:14:17,440
It was going to be
a fairly slow and very unpleasant death.
876
01:14:19,880 --> 01:14:24,080
So, you know, when all these
other plans and ideas fell away,
877
01:14:24,160 --> 01:14:26,040
only one solution was left.
878
01:14:27,160 --> 01:14:29,960
And that… that was
sedating the children and diving them out.
879
01:14:33,520 --> 01:14:36,480
You don't even need to be
a cave diver or an anesthetist
880
01:14:36,560 --> 01:14:41,200
to realize that the concept
of rendering a child unconscious,
881
01:14:41,760 --> 01:14:46,120
pushing their head underwater,
and then three hours later,
882
01:14:46,200 --> 01:14:48,960
expecting that when
you reemerge from the water,
883
01:14:49,040 --> 01:14:50,920
that those children
are still gonna be alive,
884
01:14:51,000 --> 01:14:52,440
it's just a preposterous idea.
885
01:14:54,160 --> 01:14:56,240
There were three things
that I could see
886
01:14:56,320 --> 01:14:58,600
would inevitably happen to these children.
887
01:14:58,680 --> 01:15:00,960
The masks would fill with water,
and they'd drown.
888
01:15:01,040 --> 01:15:03,480
Their airway would obstruct,
and they'd suffocate.
889
01:15:03,560 --> 01:15:05,120
And the final thing I was worried about,
890
01:15:05,200 --> 01:15:07,920
if those two things
didn't take the lives of the kids,
891
01:15:08,000 --> 01:15:11,800
with the 23-degree temperature
of the water and the air in the cave,
892
01:15:11,880 --> 01:15:14,280
over the course
of three hours, under anesthesia,
893
01:15:14,360 --> 01:15:17,280
their core temperature would
steadily but surely head down south,
894
01:15:17,360 --> 01:15:20,040
and they'd slowly freeze
to death in the cave.
895
01:15:22,440 --> 01:15:25,560
I think, in the end,
I justified it to myself by saying,
896
01:15:25,640 --> 01:15:29,720
"If I do this anesthetic,
they're probably going to die."
897
01:15:30,800 --> 01:15:33,360
"But at least
they'll be asleep when they die."
898
01:15:41,440 --> 01:15:43,800
We had to
inform the parents of our plan
899
01:15:43,880 --> 01:15:46,000
and they had to accept the risks.
900
01:15:46,080 --> 01:15:49,440
There was a possibility
that some of these kids might not survive.
901
01:15:51,280 --> 01:15:53,160
It was risky either way,
902
01:15:53,240 --> 01:15:56,200
and they told me
I had to sign a consent form.
903
01:15:56,280 --> 01:15:59,040
If I didn't,
the SEAL team couldn't get them out.
904
01:16:03,440 --> 01:16:05,400
If we waited for the rainy season to end,
905
01:16:05,480 --> 01:16:07,360
it would be three or four months.
906
01:16:07,440 --> 01:16:08,760
The chance would be zero.
907
01:16:09,600 --> 01:16:12,600
If we took a risk to get them out,
it was at least fifty-fifty.
908
01:16:13,200 --> 01:16:16,240
We had to make a decision.
It was a tough call.
909
01:16:20,840 --> 01:16:24,760
I decided to sign it.
It was a very difficult decision.
910
01:16:24,840 --> 01:16:25,880
I was scared.
911
01:16:26,560 --> 01:16:29,440
It wasn't like we were happy
when they informed us.
912
01:16:29,520 --> 01:16:31,600
I wasn't happy. I was scared.
913
01:16:32,360 --> 01:16:34,160
I was afraid they wouldn't get out.
914
01:16:45,840 --> 01:16:48,160
They phrased it
like they were trying to make us think
915
01:16:48,240 --> 01:16:49,760
of diving as something fun.
916
01:16:50,600 --> 01:16:52,680
They didn't want to stress the kids out.
917
01:16:52,760 --> 01:16:55,440
We have to wait for level three.
918
01:16:55,520 --> 01:16:57,240
We have to wait
for the water level to drop.
919
01:16:57,840 --> 01:16:59,000
I wanted to dive.
920
01:17:01,680 --> 01:17:03,360
I was excited to do it.
921
01:17:06,680 --> 01:17:08,720
I had no idea it was that risky.
922
01:17:09,360 --> 01:17:11,720
Back then all I thought about
was getting out.
923
01:17:12,520 --> 01:17:13,760
That was it.
924
01:17:28,840 --> 01:17:32,360
Because you had to dive a long distance
to get to them,
925
01:17:32,920 --> 01:17:35,640
you used the entire oxygen tank.
926
01:17:41,400 --> 01:17:42,640
When you dived back,
927
01:17:42,720 --> 01:17:47,280
you had to use a tank that was put there
to replace the one you had used up.
928
01:17:51,760 --> 01:17:54,000
The starting point
is only 300 meters from this spot.
929
01:17:55,080 --> 01:17:57,760
But here the water is falling down
from the cave walls.
930
01:17:58,360 --> 01:17:59,960
We have to dive down to get through.
931
01:18:00,720 --> 01:18:02,080
Stay tuned for tomorrow.
932
01:18:02,840 --> 01:18:03,840
We can do it.
933
01:18:04,480 --> 01:18:07,360
We SEALs can do it. We never back down.
934
01:18:09,880 --> 01:18:11,840
His name was Saman Gunan.
935
01:18:14,880 --> 01:18:17,160
He was a petty officer in the SEALs.
936
01:18:21,040 --> 01:18:24,640
That day, he had volunteered
to place the equipment.
937
01:18:28,680 --> 01:18:31,680
While diving back he lost consciousness.
938
01:18:36,120 --> 01:18:37,400
He never woke up.
939
01:18:43,160 --> 01:18:45,000
I found out in the morning.
940
01:18:46,160 --> 01:18:49,000
I texted someone
who was in the same department.
941
01:18:50,280 --> 01:18:51,280
They…
942
01:18:54,880 --> 01:18:56,640
They said he had passed.
943
01:18:59,600 --> 01:19:00,920
I just saw him.
944
01:19:05,000 --> 01:19:07,400
That day,
they sent him on a plane.
945
01:19:08,040 --> 01:19:09,240
I was delirious.
946
01:19:10,080 --> 01:19:11,680
I kept calling out his name.
947
01:19:12,440 --> 01:19:14,240
I kept calling out to him
948
01:19:14,320 --> 01:19:19,200
and saying to myself,
"It's not true. It's not true."
949
01:19:27,840 --> 01:19:29,960
I knew he had to do the rescue mission.
950
01:19:30,680 --> 01:19:33,240
These boys were still in there.
I understood that.
951
01:19:33,320 --> 01:19:36,720
PETTY OFFICER SAMAN GUNAN
BORN DECEMBER 23,1980 - DIED JULY 6, 2018
952
01:19:39,440 --> 01:19:44,200
I remember just thinking, "If it's killed
a professional former Navy SEAL,
953
01:19:45,640 --> 01:19:47,520
there's no way
these boys are gonna make it out."
954
01:19:56,720 --> 01:19:58,400
We all turned up thinking
955
01:19:58,480 --> 01:20:02,680
there was really very little prospect
of any success in this.
956
01:20:07,640 --> 01:20:10,800
We were able to breathe normally,
but it was getting tougher.
957
01:20:12,800 --> 01:20:16,320
They said the amount of oxygen
was getting lower inside the cave.
958
01:20:20,960 --> 01:20:24,880
I was quite worried about
what would happen if they ran out of air.
959
01:20:25,440 --> 01:20:28,840
And in the following week,
there would be more rain coming in
960
01:20:28,920 --> 01:20:31,560
that would create more risks.
961
01:20:32,720 --> 01:20:35,280
With the water rising
and oxygen going down,
962
01:20:35,360 --> 01:20:38,200
they had no choice
but to start the rescue mission.
963
01:20:39,720 --> 01:20:44,160
Today, we are fully prepared.
Today is our D-Day.
964
01:20:44,240 --> 01:20:48,960
Authorities say that high-risk operation
is now under way.
965
01:20:49,040 --> 01:20:52,560
Just minutes ago
the local governor called it "D-Day."
966
01:20:52,640 --> 01:20:55,440
It's a rescue attempt
"like no other," they call it.
967
01:20:57,600 --> 01:21:00,920
It was the first time
this method was used in the world.
968
01:21:09,200 --> 01:21:12,360
Just about 9:00, 9:30,
someone just announced, "We're on."
969
01:21:13,840 --> 01:21:17,200
Where the boys were
is a little bit over two kilometers.
970
01:21:17,880 --> 01:21:19,800
So we knew these kids
were going to have
971
01:21:19,880 --> 01:21:22,440
a three-hour journey out of the cave.
972
01:21:33,160 --> 01:21:35,120
I remember as we approached, I thought,
973
01:21:35,200 --> 01:21:39,160
"Here we are. We finally made it through
the cave and they're all going to die."
974
01:21:39,680 --> 01:21:42,360
That's when this was
all about to become a real thing.
975
01:21:46,480 --> 01:21:48,280
The kids were amazingly very accepting.
976
01:21:48,360 --> 01:21:50,120
You know, at that stage,
we could've told them
977
01:21:50,200 --> 01:21:52,200
they were gonna be taken out
on a flying carpet,
978
01:21:52,280 --> 01:21:53,640
and they would have agreed to it.
979
01:21:53,720 --> 01:21:56,360
They were just so desperate
to be out of that place by then.
980
01:21:58,080 --> 01:22:01,440
The funny thing was they decided
the kids who lived the farthest distance
981
01:22:01,520 --> 01:22:03,480
from the entrance of the cave
would go first.
982
01:22:06,040 --> 01:22:09,200
Once they got out, the kids planned
to ride their bikes back home
983
01:22:09,280 --> 01:22:11,040
and get something to eat.
984
01:22:14,720 --> 01:22:16,360
I asked to be the last to leave.
985
01:22:18,440 --> 01:22:21,000
Come on, let's go. Ready?
986
01:22:25,440 --> 01:22:28,440
The first child that I anesthetized,
987
01:22:28,520 --> 01:22:31,360
you know,
I can still remember very clearly.
988
01:22:36,800 --> 01:22:39,800
It's hard to describe what it feels like,
989
01:22:39,880 --> 01:22:43,000
pushing an unconscious child's face
into the water.
990
01:22:44,160 --> 01:22:46,080
That's about as low
as you can go, I think.
991
01:22:48,520 --> 01:22:50,320
Closely followed by, you know,
992
01:22:50,400 --> 01:22:52,720
restraining someone's hands
behind their backs.
993
01:22:53,920 --> 01:22:56,600
The implications of what
I might be doing to these kids,
994
01:22:56,680 --> 01:22:59,200
and that… that might be
signing their death warrant.
995
01:23:02,640 --> 01:23:05,600
Sixteen hundred meters
or so, they were diving.
996
01:23:07,080 --> 01:23:10,120
The boys then
had to come out of the water,
997
01:23:10,200 --> 01:23:14,520
be carried across, uh, the dry land…
998
01:23:18,760 --> 01:23:21,480
The British diver told us
he would be responsible
999
01:23:21,560 --> 01:23:24,680
for bringing the kids to us
at the third chamber.
1000
01:23:24,800 --> 01:23:29,440
From there, we had to come up with a plan
to bring them to the cave entrance.
1001
01:23:33,240 --> 01:23:36,360
From the third chamber,
we used 200 people.
1002
01:23:36,960 --> 01:23:38,040
Be careful.
1003
01:23:38,120 --> 01:23:42,040
We just waited all day
for news. So it was full on.
1004
01:23:44,200 --> 01:23:46,480
Hey, left, right.
1005
01:23:46,560 --> 01:23:48,080
Left, right, left, right.
1006
01:23:51,760 --> 01:23:53,360
I was the second out.
1007
01:23:57,320 --> 01:23:59,320
The needle they used hurt a lot.
1008
01:24:02,160 --> 01:24:03,400
I blacked out.
1009
01:24:17,080 --> 01:24:18,960
The first group
was the most at risk.
1010
01:24:20,120 --> 01:24:21,680
We wished for a miracle.
1011
01:24:25,000 --> 01:24:27,800
Stop. Stop. Stop. Stop. Okay.
1012
01:24:29,320 --> 01:24:31,000
Go, go, go.
1013
01:24:35,520 --> 01:24:37,040
Slowly.
1014
01:24:57,320 --> 01:24:59,400
The rescue team came out so quietly.
1015
01:25:00,080 --> 01:25:02,520
I wondered if the kids
had actually survived.
1016
01:25:08,120 --> 01:25:09,400
That is the first ambulance.
1017
01:25:09,480 --> 01:25:11,360
The whole world
has been waiting to see this.
1018
01:25:22,600 --> 01:25:26,080
After ten days of waiting,
we finally get to see the Wild Boars.
1019
01:25:27,240 --> 01:25:29,560
MR.NARONGSAK OSATANAKORN,
HEAD OF THE JOINT COMMAND CENTRE
1020
01:25:30,520 --> 01:25:31,520
I was so happy.
1021
01:25:31,600 --> 01:25:33,720
FOURTH MEMBER OF THE WILD BOARS
BEING TAKEN TO HOSPITAL
1022
01:25:33,800 --> 01:25:37,560
Reports from Northern Thailand say
at least four boys have been brought out.
1023
01:25:41,440 --> 01:25:45,720
The first rescue was perfect.
It was an incredible day. We did it.
1024
01:25:57,120 --> 01:26:00,040
When the last day came,
the plan changed.
1025
01:26:00,120 --> 01:26:02,560
I had to go first. I was like, "What?"
1026
01:26:05,000 --> 01:26:08,480
They wanted to take out the biggest first
and the smallest last.
1027
01:26:09,080 --> 01:26:10,200
I started to feel uneasy.
1028
01:26:14,640 --> 01:26:17,720
I thought that if I got out first
and the parents found out,
1029
01:26:17,800 --> 01:26:20,240
they might be mad
that I left their kids behind.
1030
01:26:21,480 --> 01:26:23,200
It wouldn't be good.
1031
01:26:23,920 --> 01:26:27,520
I didn't know how I was
going to explain it to their parents.
1032
01:26:30,680 --> 01:26:32,400
I sat with Dr. Harris.
1033
01:26:33,400 --> 01:26:36,400
While I was looking at him,
the needle was stuck into my thigh.
1034
01:26:41,360 --> 01:26:43,280
I started thanking the rescue workers.
1035
01:26:43,360 --> 01:26:47,120
I told them, "Please take care
of the kids. I'll see you outside."
1036
01:27:11,400 --> 01:27:12,720
Are you okay?
1037
01:27:12,800 --> 01:27:16,680
The last boy
on the last day turned out to be Mark.
1038
01:27:19,040 --> 01:27:20,160
It felt lonely.
1039
01:27:20,720 --> 01:27:22,360
I was the only one left.
1040
01:27:22,440 --> 01:27:25,520
There was no one to tell me
to get out safely and cheer me on.
1041
01:27:26,040 --> 01:27:27,800
But I thought, "It's fine."
1042
01:27:30,560 --> 01:27:33,960
Then I realize being last is cool.
I get to finish the story.
1043
01:27:40,440 --> 01:27:41,880
Mark was the last one.
1044
01:27:42,520 --> 01:27:44,360
I thought, "It doesn't matter if he's last
1045
01:27:44,440 --> 01:27:45,760
as long as he comes out safely."
1046
01:28:29,440 --> 01:28:31,680
When I woke up,
I felt like I was born again.
1047
01:28:37,480 --> 01:28:39,320
I was lying there naked.
1048
01:28:39,400 --> 01:28:42,640
And then, they were…
taking such good care of me
1049
01:28:42,720 --> 01:28:43,920
as if I was a baby.
1050
01:28:57,240 --> 01:29:00,000
I was so happy. I didn't know what to say.
1051
01:29:05,280 --> 01:29:06,880
Mission accomplished.
1052
01:29:06,960 --> 01:29:10,720
All 12 boys and their coach
have been successfully rescued.
1053
01:29:12,760 --> 01:29:15,640
You can only imagine.
I mean, what, as you say, a miracle.
1054
01:29:15,720 --> 01:29:19,200
I've never seen an event
bring a world together like this.
1055
01:29:24,320 --> 01:29:27,600
The hero in all of this
is everyone from around the world.
1056
01:29:28,720 --> 01:29:31,000
We did something
no one expected we could do
1057
01:29:31,080 --> 01:29:32,560
for the first time in history.
1058
01:29:37,040 --> 01:29:39,000
It's our Mission Possible.
1059
01:29:41,120 --> 01:29:43,320
There's the ambulance
carrying Coach Eak.
1060
01:29:43,400 --> 01:29:44,440
Coach Eak!
1061
01:29:59,640 --> 01:30:02,200
It was a miracle that everyone survived.
1062
01:30:06,520 --> 01:30:08,240
Some of the parents came up to me.
1063
01:30:08,320 --> 01:30:12,640
As they were walking up, I was like,
"All right. Whatever happens, happens."
1064
01:30:12,720 --> 01:30:14,920
I had prepared myself. I would take it.
1065
01:30:17,640 --> 01:30:20,600
They said they would go to sleep
holding each other's hands.
1066
01:30:22,160 --> 01:30:25,120
Well, seeing them,
I felt as if they were all my children.
1067
01:30:25,840 --> 01:30:27,280
They loved each other.
1068
01:30:30,120 --> 01:30:31,640
Some people criticized Eak.
1069
01:30:31,720 --> 01:30:35,000
But for us, we're like family.
We understand each other.
1070
01:30:35,080 --> 01:30:36,800
We know it was an accident.
1071
01:30:38,240 --> 01:30:41,120
They came up to me and said,
"Stay strong, Eak."
1072
01:30:41,200 --> 01:30:44,440
"Don't worry about anything.
Everybody understands."
1073
01:30:45,080 --> 01:30:47,880
When I heard that, I was like, "Okay."
1074
01:30:47,960 --> 01:30:49,800
All my worries were gone.
1075
01:30:56,840 --> 01:31:00,520
When I saw my mother for the first time,
I was surprised.
1076
01:31:00,600 --> 01:31:04,080
I wanted to get up and walk to her
and hug her, but I couldn't.
1077
01:31:05,640 --> 01:31:09,280
I had no strength in my legs,
so my mother ran to me and hugged me.
1078
01:31:11,040 --> 01:31:13,800
The first thing I saw
was my parents crying.
1079
01:31:14,920 --> 01:31:17,480
They were crying tears of joy
because I made it out.
1080
01:31:20,280 --> 01:31:21,880
I hugged him and said,
1081
01:31:21,960 --> 01:31:23,800
"Tee, don't do this again."
1082
01:31:23,880 --> 01:31:26,480
"You have to tell me
where you're going. I love you."
1083
01:31:30,280 --> 01:31:32,400
We were ecstatic. We hugged each other.
1084
01:31:33,080 --> 01:31:36,000
We were just so happy.
I remember it to this day.
1085
01:31:37,880 --> 01:31:40,560
When I saw my parents, I started crying.
1086
01:31:40,640 --> 01:31:42,920
I was still thinking
that it could be a dream.
1087
01:31:44,400 --> 01:31:47,000
Tle said he thought
he would never get to see us again.
1088
01:31:48,400 --> 01:31:50,720
When he said that,
I had a lump in my throat.
1089
01:31:51,240 --> 01:31:53,680
-We couldn't say anything.
-I couldn't say anything.
1090
01:31:55,920 --> 01:31:58,080
We saw Officer Sam's picture.
1091
01:31:59,200 --> 01:32:01,400
I got quiet. I was stunned.
1092
01:32:05,120 --> 01:32:09,440
Officer Sam came to rescue us,
but he didn't get to come out with us.
1093
01:32:11,120 --> 01:32:14,120
Why did someone have to die
because we went into the cave?
1094
01:32:22,720 --> 01:32:26,080
When I saw these boys, I was proud.
1095
01:32:26,920 --> 01:32:29,640
What my husband did, was a success.
1096
01:32:35,640 --> 01:32:38,720
I never blame them because I understand.
1097
01:32:39,640 --> 01:32:41,840
No one wanted it to happen.
1098
01:32:47,600 --> 01:32:50,200
What I wish for them is
to live a normal life
1099
01:32:50,280 --> 01:32:53,880
and to follow their dreams
just like every other kid.
1100
01:32:55,360 --> 01:32:58,600
I just want them to continue
chasing their dreams.
1101
01:33:27,200 --> 01:33:28,800
I never think I'm a celebrity.
1102
01:33:29,960 --> 01:33:31,720
I'm just a kid who got stuck in a cave
1103
01:33:31,800 --> 01:33:34,560
and got famous
because other people rescued me.
1104
01:33:37,720 --> 01:33:39,440
But because this happened to me,
1105
01:33:39,520 --> 01:33:42,000
I've had to adjust, to be more polite,
1106
01:33:42,080 --> 01:33:43,800
so that when people look at me…
1107
01:33:46,840 --> 01:33:50,160
they will be happy
that the boy they saved is a good person.
1108
01:34:02,840 --> 01:34:05,120
We can't just do whatever we want anymore.
1109
01:34:05,720 --> 01:34:08,960
We have to be good kids.
We have to study hard.
1110
01:34:09,040 --> 01:34:11,520
We can't let the people
who rescued us down.
1111
01:34:13,960 --> 01:34:17,000
Thank you for taking care of me.
Thank you.
1112
01:34:19,600 --> 01:34:20,560
I'll never give up.
1113
01:34:24,040 --> 01:34:25,160
You did great.
1114
01:34:25,240 --> 01:34:26,840
Wild Boars!
1115
01:34:26,920 --> 01:34:29,040
Wild Boars!
1116
01:34:32,120 --> 01:34:35,120
When I found out how many people
were involved in helping us,
1117
01:34:35,200 --> 01:34:38,560
I didn't know how
I could ever repay this act of kindness.
1118
01:34:39,200 --> 01:34:42,240
There is just no way I could make up
for it in this lifetime.
1119
01:36:10,760 --> 01:36:12,000
Hold the position.
1120
01:36:14,000 --> 01:36:16,160
Down! Up!
1121
01:36:16,240 --> 01:36:17,280
Down!
1122
01:36:18,760 --> 01:36:19,680
Down!
1123
01:36:25,240 --> 01:36:26,200
Down!
1124
01:36:26,840 --> 01:36:27,760
Again?
1125
01:36:30,160 --> 01:36:32,480
-I'm tired.
-I don't care!
1126
01:36:36,120 --> 01:36:38,720
Tao, don't let a younger kid beat you.
Don't give up.
1127
01:36:39,360 --> 01:36:40,680
Tao, go faster.
1128
01:36:42,560 --> 01:36:43,920
That was the last one.
1129
01:36:46,760 --> 01:36:48,400
Okay, send one person out.