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Remember that dramatic and miraculous rescue of the Thai boy football team that was trapped deep in a flooded cave? The story has been told in an excellent new dramatic National Geographic documentary. Featuring the actual rescuers, cave explorer Vern Unsworth, self-effacing cave divers Rick Stanton and John Volanthen, and directed by the team that made the Academy Award-winning Free Solo, The Rescue will astound you whether you are a diver or not.
The Rescue chronicles the enthralling, against-all-odds story that transfixed the world in 2018: the daring rescue of 12 boys and their coach from deep inside a flooded cave in northern Thailand. Using a wealth of never-before-seen footage and exclusive interviews, E. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin bring alive one of the more perilous and extraordinary rescues in modern times by shining a light on the high-risk world of cave diving, the astounding courage and compassion of the rescuers, and the international community's shared humanity that united to save the boys....
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