The eyes of the world are drawn to the mountainous regions of northern Thailand.
There are too many star teams in the World Cup, but everyone only hopes that this team can win
Their opponents are too strong, it is time and nature.
Thai Cave Rescue
The Rescue
June 23, 2018, is not a normal day.
It was the birthday of a member of the Wild Boar soccer team.
The teenagers had planned early on to spend a dry season in the Sleeping Beauty Cave.
It was like Duan Yu practicing with the Immortal Sister in a cave.
Sleeping Beauty Cave is the biggest training ground for this group of rural teenagers.
Unexpectedly, the rainy season came early.
When I went in, it was still clear, and when I went out in the evening, the torrential rain not only blocked the exit, but also flooded the winding and winding road in the cave, turning thousands of times...
This is the youth soccer team that was trapped in a cave and touched the hearts of the world.
Today, three years later, the wild boar teenagers have returned safely and parted ways with the volunteers.
However, Jin Guowei, the director of "Unarmed Rock Climbing", put this short-lived human alliance on the screen.
The first rescue force, the Thai Navy.
Having been a soldier for decades, I have never seen this battle?
There is no light in the cave, the underwater visibility is five centimeters, and if you want to force your way into the cave, it is impossible to rely on the conventional equipment of the navy and a little basic diving technology.
It seems that we can only ask for foreign aid.
The rescue team immediately called for pumping experts.
But when the pumped water flooded a large area of farmland, it still could not withstand the intensity of heavy rain.
Officials are helpless.
But officially, it does not represent the full potential of society.
In the face of the common goal of mankind, there is always an amazing burst of power.
For example:
Folk cave diving expert.
Amateur, desperate, how crazy how to come.
Not yet?
The Thai government has formally sent a request for assistance to the United Kingdom.
But two diving experts... I had a fight with the Navy.
It turned out that the Thai Navy, after assessing the situation at the scene, insisted on not Letting Rick and John launch themselves.
Even at one point said harshly:
You can find death, but no one will collect your body.
Yes, even if it is a race against the clock, it must also be a competition and cooperation.
No wonder, of course, the Navy despised these two men.
Rick and John came for the first time, like two retired uncles who came on vacation, short sleeves, beach pants, flip-flops,
Even the American soldiers complained: The two big brothers are really casual.
In short, the noise is not noisy...
Then do it yourself
Rick and John discover that it's not that the Thai Navy is too intimidating, but that Sleeping Beauty is too dangerous.
Every step forward in the hole is like speeding in thick fog.
Not only to swim against the current in the flood, but also to beware of debris that flies from all over the sky: sharp rocks that can pierce the wetsuit, wires and cables that can entangle your hands and feet without a word.
Although before they came, they were mentally prepared:
Sleeping Beauty Cave is one of the most difficult caves in the world to navigate.
After this nine dead turbid water rafting.
Everyone was shocked:
This is where the cave exploration is, it is like climbing Mount Everest in the flood.
However, after many risks, he still could not get back any clues about the survival of the child.
The rescue came to day 7.
Everyone expects a miracle, but no one dares to believe in a miracle.
With so little oxygen and such a high water level in the cave, how can children find a safe habitat and survive without eating or drinking?
Outside the cave, the parents began to pray day and night, but the rescue was completely deadlocked.
This.
Cave dive experts and the Navy finally "agreed": they couldn't do anything about rescue.
Rick and John even lost to the point where they wanted to go home to watch the ball:
We could only sit idly by
Full of frustration
We have in mind the fate of these children
We began to doubt
Do we really need to be here?
No doubt about it.
Even the most heroic explorers have moments when they want to retreat.
Can be analyzed by other divers before retreating.
They decided to try again.
Die and die.
Anyway, who hasn't thought about dying?
Even if it is only to find the body, it is an explanation.
I know what I'm going to encounter
Because I've imagined it very, very carefully
I try to put fear in a box
Then put the box on the shelf
I only do what I need to do
Finally, with the help of more frontline personnel, they, along with the Thai Navy, deduced where the children were most likely to be.
Day 10 of the rescue.
Rick and John set off with the last glimmer of hope.
Everywhere you go, take off your mask and smell it.
In Rick's words: a man is a corpse, and he knows it when he smells it.
John, on the other hand, was not too calm.
The first rule of the cave dive: oxygen should be divided into three parts, come in and use one, go out to use one, and spare.
But before he reached his destination, John had only half of his oxygen left.
Before he set off, he told himself not to be afraid, but at the moment he just wanted to turn back.
He went back several times in the same place, constantly breaking his mind:
Is it to turn back, or to cross the end of fear?
The more he hesitated, the more his body pushed him forward.
Suddenly, a pungent smell came to the nose, smelling, not like a corpse; and a gloomy white light, repeatedly skimming the water, looking, not like its own people's searchlights...
What would that be?
Confirmed this unique Thai accent.
It's none other than the call of the Boar Boy:
Frankly.
Such moments of wonder john had fantasized countless times.
But not once did he dare to believe it.
Until you see it with your own eyes.
He still didn't dare to believe it.
In the audio
I'm saying Believe me
That's what I'm trying to tell myself, and it's true
This is what is happening
Even more unbelievable.
The children did not panic, did not make a fuss.
Only the only child on the scene who knew English still politely asked two sentences:
"Please... Can you take us out? ”
"If you can't, can you bring us something to eat?"
There is another scene that Sir will never forget
They spent all their energy, in newly learned English, and said to the camera:
Hello Americans
Hello Thai Navy
Hello Australian
Hello Chinese
Thank you to each and every one of you
The maturity of the teenagers is beyond the imagination of the rescue team.
They didn't even scramble, but instead negotiated in advance to let the furthest child out of the hole first, so that they could report to the parents of the other children for safety.
Can the story end here?
The battle has only just begun.
The next difficulty in discovering your child is.
How to rescue a child when it is safe to do so?
One of the most unfortunate examples is that, with adequate preparation, a Navy volunteer in his prime, while delivering food to his children, drowned due to lack of oxygen.
Even if more diving experts are found, two people with a child.
Still can't escape the most deadly problem.
fear.
As with all extreme sports.
Cave diving challenges not only the limits of physical fitness, but also the limits of psychology.
As Rick puts it, "People can also rely on maps when they land on the moon." But in those caves full of unknowns, no one knows where the road will lead, and no one knows what will happen at the next corner. ”
Other words.
The awareness of the children is the biggest uncertainty in the rescue.
Rescue teams continue to send divers to deliver food and blankets to the children.
But everyone knows in their hearts that the impossible is impossible.
The torrential rain cannot be stopped, the water level cannot be lowered, and the conditions in the cave cannot support the children to continue to consume like this...
So Rick and John were more determined than ever.
No matter what method is used, this time, it is impossible not to save.
Once again, they made a final challenge to Death.
But the chips were not themselves, but the boar boys.
In the early hours of the morning, Rick called an anesthesiologist.
That night, the doctor almost rolled out of bed in anger.
Can you believe it?
Rick is ridiculous enough to invite the doctor to anesthetize the children and then take them out of the cave with him...
The doctor said: "If you insist on doing this, I can tell you a hundred possibilities of children dying."
Rick is not in a hurry:
Then I also want to tell you that if you don't do this, the only possibility of the children dying.
die. at. hole. village.
It was the sixteenth day of the rescue.
The weather forecast shows that there is no better time than this.
The Thai Navy has finally joined the gamble with no turning back.
Go ahead, we can save one is one.
At the end of the story, you all know it – the children were safely transported out of the hole with sedative injections.
After waking up, there were no obvious sequelae or complications.
Yes, they were right.
But no one knows that this time it is not only the children, but also every volunteer involved in the rescue.
Why did the Navy disagree with the plan in the first place?
Because many things are not under their control.
The doctor before departure even received a reminder from the Navy:
While this is frustrating, I must remind you that under Thailand's constitution, you are at risk of being punished by law...
In the face of the media, the most common sentence said by the spokesperson was:
We promise to rescue the children in absolute safety.
Today, these controversies have long since dissipated.
No one will ask whether the method used in the first place is "correct".
Because there is no right weight, it can be compared to a living life.
Besides, there were exactly thirteen.
And that's not counting the two innocent lives that were unfortunately killed because of the rescue, and the front-line rescuers who set out every time they set out, with the determination to die.
Is death terrible?
Of course it's terrible
Without the fear of death, there is no desire to live.
On the night of the rescue, the doctor received bad news from the family.
He didn't have time to visit his father before he left, and he just died today.
The doctor, who is very familiar with life and death, tries his best to remain calm, but he still can't understand:
Are you sure?
Why at this time?
To be at this time after I witnessed the rescue of thirteen children?
When people around him came running to comfort him.
But he figured it out for himself.
If you say, life and death are two ends of a line.
So what is between the two ends?
The doctor's exact words are: Had a fantastic life.
If you translate it to Chinese, it would be:
Live in the moment.
Have you noticed?
The English name of the documentary is only abstractly said: the rescue.
Seeing the end Sir did not understand.
It's not so much a hero's rescue of the weak.
Rather, it was a mutual redemption of mutual achievements.
Don't look at this group of cave diving enthusiasts who are not afraid of heaven.
They love cave diving not because they were born cool.
Rather, because...
Growing up, no cool kid wants to play with them.
I was a bit bullied as a teenager
Yes, because I'm a little different
In the eyes of others, a cave is a mud pit.
In their eyes, the cave was peaceful and calm.
It was the utopia of their escape from the mainstream, their escape from the world.
But now, they may not think that way anymore.
Who can say that this group of death squads who rescued the wild boar teenagers are not good at teamwork and cannot prove their worth?
On this group of cave explorers.
Sir saw the purest, most innocent life force of human beings.
It's like the rope you can't throw in a cave adventure.
Everyone has their own lifeline.
Hold it tightly in order to perceive the fragility of life.
Continue to explore along with it to discover a more vivid world.
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