Thailand cave rescue

These rescue efforts were the focus of a number of documentaries and adaptations over the years, with both a six-part Phromthep, known to friends as Dom, moved to England last year to undertake a soccer scholarship at Brooke House College Football Academy in Leicestershire, England. He was discovered unconscious in his room at the academy and later died in hospital. “We are waiting for his body to return,” said Phromthep’s mother, Thanaporn Duangthep, at a virtual news conference from the town Mae Sai, in northern Thailand, the New York Times reported. She said that at least her son’s sporting dreams came true before he died. Below, what to know about Duangphet Phromthep’s short life and death. Read More: Netflix’s Authentic Thai Cave Rescue and the True Story Filmmakers Can’t Stop Retelling What is Duangphet Phromthep’s cause of death? While Phromthep’s cause of death has not been confirmed, local police in Leicestershire said the death is not being treated as suspicious. Meanwhile, the northern regional branch of the Thai government’s public relations arm said on Facebook that Phromthep died as a result of an accident. No further details were provided. Kiatisuk “Zico” Senamuang, the founder of Zico Foundation—which facilitated Phromthep’s soccer scholarship—told reporters Wednesday that the boy was generally believed to be in good health but a teacher found the student unconscious in his dorm room Sunday afternoon. He was rushed to hospital and remained in critical condi...

The good news for the producers of Thirteen Lives: There’s a built-in audience for the story of the 2018 Tham Luang Nang Non rescue, in which an international effort retrieved 12 members of a Thai junior football team and their assistant coach from a huge cave system where they had become stranded by the early arrival of the monsoon. The bad news: The story was covered so exhaustively at the time that much of the core audience is already familiar with all the details and will notice any fudging for dramatic effect. Director Ron Howard’s previous movie about a high-pressure, life-or-death problem in an extreme environment, Apollo 13, also dramatized a well-known story, but it had the advantage of many details previously remaining classified and so unknown to the public. Howard uses the same approach in both films, breaking down one big crisis into several smaller technical challenges, each one of which has the potential to result in disaster. His heroes thus stay rooted in facts, leaving the audience to feel all the emotions that the heroes can’t afford to be distracted by. Below, we sort out where the film sticks to these facts and where it departs. In the film, the mother of one of the boys tells the assistant to the area’s governor, Narongsak Osatanakorn (Sahajak Boonthanakit), that her family is from Myanmar and so don’t have any official ID cards. As a result, she is worried that her son (Chai, the youngest of the group) won’t be brought out. She is reassured this won’...

With news about war, inflation, and energy shortages gripping the headlines in recent months, it’s no wonder that On Sept. 22, Netflix will release a six-episode miniseries covering the story of the Thai youth soccer team and their 25-year old coach who got trapped in the Thai Cave Rescue includes exclusive insights from extensive interviews with the real-life Wild Boars and their guardians—and some of the scenes were shot in the boys’ real homes. “The boys are the heart and soul of our series,” showrunner Dana Ledoux Miller, who created and wrote the show with Michael Russell Gunn, tells TIME. Netflix’s new series is one of many adaptations of the rescue story for the big and small screen. In 2019, director Tom Waller’s Thai production The Cave used a mix of reconstructions and news footage to tell the story. This depiction gives the European diver Jim Warny, who played a key role in rescuing the team, a leading role in the story, playing himself. The 2021 National Geographic documentary The Rescue followed, incorporating footage shot by Thai Navy SEALs during the mission to save the boys. Ron Howard’s vivid true-life drama Thirteen Lives, which was released this summer, was Focusing on the boys at the heart of the story According to the creators behind Thai Cave Rescue, their decision to put the boys at the center of the miniseries is what sets this retelling apart. “To have that kind of access and be able to ask the questions on the ground with the people who were actua...

Release Date: October 8, 2021 THE RESCUE chronicles the enthralling, against-all-odds story that transfixed the world in 2018: the daring rescue of twelve boys and their coach from deep inside a flooded cave in Northern Thailand. Academy Award®-winning directors and producers E. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin keep viewers on the edge of their seats as they use a wealth of never-before-seen material and exclusive interviews to piece together the high stakes mission, highlighting the efforts of the Royal Thai Navy SEALs and U.S. Air Force Special Tactics and details the expert cave divers' audacious venture to dive the boys to safety. THE RESCUE brings alive one of the most perilous and extraordinary rescues in modern times, shining a light on the high-risk world of cave diving, the astounding courage and compassion of the rescuers, and the shared humanity of the international community that united to save the boys. Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi is an Academy® Award-winning filmmaker. Most recently Vasarhelyi directed and produced “Free Solo,” an intimate, unflinching portrait of rock climber Alex Honnold, which was awarded a BAFTA and the Academy® Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2019. The film also received seven Emmy® awards. Vasarhelyi’s other films as a director include “Meru” (Oscars Shortlist 2016; Sundance Audience Award 2015); “Incorruptible” (Truer Than Fiction Independent Spirit Award 2016); “Youssou N’Dour: I Bring What I Love” (Oscilloscope, 2009), which premie...

The Rescue chronicles the 2018 rescue of 12 boys and their soccer coach who were trapped deep inside a flooded cave in Northern Thailand. National Geographic In June 2018, the world held its breath for 18 days as a group of elite cave divers risked everything The boys, who were all members of a soccer team, had gone into a long, winding underground cave with their coach to celebrate one of the boy's birthdays. But it was just before the beginning of the four-month monsoon season, and while they were in the cave, it started to downpour outside. Rain water rushed into the cave, trapping them deep inside. Documentary filmmaker Chai Vasarhelyi describes the cave as incredibly intimidating, with a "a darkness that kind of pulls you in." The boys and the coach were about two kilometers in, she says, and "trapped on the wrong side of the water." Vasarhelyi and her husband and co-filmmaker Free Solo. Their new film, The Rescue, tells the story of the daring underwater rescue operation in Thailand. The Thai rescue mission presented a unique challenge. Oxygen supply was dwindling inside the cave, and any rescue would require maneuvering through tight underwater crevasses. It was difficult to know who — if anyone — would be capable of getting the boys and their coach out safely. "Cave diving requires a specific set of skills and actually also requires a specific set of equipment," Chin says. "There really are no special forces in the world ... that are equipped or have that experienc...

Load Error The team and their coach - who were believed to have entered the cave for an 'initiation ceremony' - became trapped after it started to rain, and floodwater came rushing into the mouth of the cave. By day nine, the boys hadn't been located and most experts were convinced they would not survive. Even once they were found and a rescue plan was devised, diver and anaesthetist Richard Harris was certain it was During his time trapped in the cave, captain of the Wild Boars soccer team Duangphet 'Dom' Phromthep turned 13. Thai navy seals exchanged letters between the boys and their parents, and Dom wrote, "I’m fine but it’s a little bit cold." "Don’t worry," he wrote, "and don’t forget my birthday." His mother Noy had been terrified, waiting outside the cave for updates. But 18 days after they first entered the cave, all 12 boys and their coach made it out alive. It was a story that spoke to the indomitable nature of the human spirit. One of the rare tales of disaster that seemed to have a near-universal happy ending. But for the survivors, life changed after the rescue. "I got the same child back when he came home from hospital, but he was different with strangers," Noy told The Australian in an interview last week. Then in February this year, she lost her son for a second, and final, time. *** In August 2022, Dom and his teammates celebrated when he won a scholarship to join the Brooke House College Football Academy in the UK. "Today my dream has come true," he wrot...

These rescue efforts were the focus of a number of documentaries and adaptations over the years, with both a six-part Phromthep, known to friends as Dom, moved to England last year to undertake a soccer scholarship at Brooke House College Football Academy in Leicestershire, England. He was discovered unconscious in his room at the academy and later died in hospital. “We are waiting for his body to return,” said Phromthep’s mother, Thanaporn Duangthep, at a virtual news conference from the town Mae Sai, in northern Thailand, the New York Times reported. She said that at least her son’s sporting dreams came true before he died. Below, what to know about Duangphet Phromthep’s short life and death. Read More: Netflix’s Authentic Thai Cave Rescue and the True Story Filmmakers Can’t Stop Retelling What is Duangphet Phromthep’s cause of death? While Phromthep’s cause of death has not been confirmed, local police in Leicestershire said the death is not being treated as suspicious. Meanwhile, the northern regional branch of the Thai government’s public relations arm said on Facebook that Phromthep died as a result of an accident. No further details were provided. Kiatisuk “Zico” Senamuang, the founder of Zico Foundation—which facilitated Phromthep’s soccer scholarship—told reporters Wednesday that the boy was generally believed to be in good health but a teacher found the student unconscious in his dorm room Sunday afternoon. He was rushed to hospital and remained in critical condi...

Release Date: October 8, 2021 THE RESCUE chronicles the enthralling, against-all-odds story that transfixed the world in 2018: the daring rescue of twelve boys and their coach from deep inside a flooded cave in Northern Thailand. Academy Award®-winning directors and producers E. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin keep viewers on the edge of their seats as they use a wealth of never-before-seen material and exclusive interviews to piece together the high stakes mission, highlighting the efforts of the Royal Thai Navy SEALs and U.S. Air Force Special Tactics and details the expert cave divers' audacious venture to dive the boys to safety. THE RESCUE brings alive one of the most perilous and extraordinary rescues in modern times, shining a light on the high-risk world of cave diving, the astounding courage and compassion of the rescuers, and the shared humanity of the international community that united to save the boys. Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi is an Academy® Award-winning filmmaker. Most recently Vasarhelyi directed and produced “Free Solo,” an intimate, unflinching portrait of rock climber Alex Honnold, which was awarded a BAFTA and the Academy® Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2019. The film also received seven Emmy® awards. Vasarhelyi’s other films as a director include “Meru” (Oscars Shortlist 2016; Sundance Audience Award 2015); “Incorruptible” (Truer Than Fiction Independent Spirit Award 2016); “Youssou N’Dour: I Bring What I Love” (Oscilloscope, 2009), which premie...

MAE SAI, Thailand — Improbably enough, most of the escapes went flawlessly. But on trip No. 11, to save one of the last soccer teammates stuck for 18 days deep inside the cave, something went dangerously wrong. Rescuers inside an underground chamber felt a tug on the rope — the sign that one of the 12 boys or their coach would soon emerge from the flooded tunnels. “Fish on,” the rescuers signaled, recalled Maj. Charles Hodges of the United States Air Force, mission commander for the American team on site. Fifteen minutes went by. Then 60. Then 90. As the rescuers waited anxiously, a diver navigating the 11th teammate through the underwater maze lost hold of the guide rope. With visibility near zero, he couldn’t find the line again. Slowly, he backtracked, going deeper into the cave to search for the rope, before the rescue could resume. “The whole world was watching, so we had to succeed,” said Kaew, a Thai Navy SEAL diver who shook his head in amazement at how every one of the rescues worked. “I don’t think we had any other choice.” Interviews with military personnel and officials detailed a Thailand cave rescue operation assembled from an amalgam of muscle and brainpower from around the world: 10,000 people participated, including 2,000 soldiers, 200 divers and representatives from 100 government agencies. It took plastic cocoons, floating stretchers and a rope line that hoisted the players and coach over outcroppings. The boys had been stranded on a rocky perch more tha...

With news about war, inflation, and energy shortages gripping the headlines in recent months, it’s no wonder that On Sept. 22, Netflix will release a six-episode miniseries covering the story of the Thai youth soccer team and their 25-year old coach who got trapped in the Thai Cave Rescue includes exclusive insights from extensive interviews with the real-life Wild Boars and their guardians—and some of the scenes were shot in the boys’ real homes. “The boys are the heart and soul of our series,” showrunner Dana Ledoux Miller, who created and wrote the show with Michael Russell Gunn, tells TIME. Netflix’s new series is one of many adaptations of the rescue story for the big and small screen. In 2019, director Tom Waller’s Thai production The Cave used a mix of reconstructions and news footage to tell the story. This depiction gives the European diver Jim Warny, who played a key role in rescuing the team, a leading role in the story, playing himself. The 2021 National Geographic documentary The Rescue followed, incorporating footage shot by Thai Navy SEALs during the mission to save the boys. Ron Howard’s vivid true-life drama Thirteen Lives, which was released this summer, was Focusing on the boys at the heart of the story According to the creators behind Thai Cave Rescue, their decision to put the boys at the center of the miniseries is what sets this retelling apart. “To have that kind of access and be able to ask the questions on the ground with the people who were actua...