| I’ll watch anything on this rescue mission. It still seems so unbelievable. This is an amazing story, well done by Ron Howard. |
| I’m also looking forward to it. I was impressed by how thoroughly Viggo Mortenson prepared for the role. |
| The National Geographic documentary is excellent. |
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Rick Stanton’s book Aquanaut is an amazing account of this as well.
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| Where can this be found? I remember this story and being glued to the updates. This was an amazing rescue story. |
Just watched it - Wow! Somehow I missed that there was any sort of movie about this coming out, let alone by Ron Howard. Will go check out what Vigo did to prepared. Highly recommend the show - my 9 and 11yo were fully engaged. |
| I couldn't watch the stories about their rescue without bawling -- can't wait for the movie! |
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Its on Amazon prime right now
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I went back and watched this — really good on more facts. The movie didn’t seem to give enough credit to the navy seals advance work and the documentary didn’t give much insight to the remarkable work of the townspeople - who willingly flooded their crops and fields to divert water from the cave. Neither mentioned the ridiculous sideshow that was Elon musk at the time (publicly calling an expert cave diver a pedo). It’s hard to comprehend how impossible this rescue was …. And yet. … |
| Did Elon’s submarine make an appearance? |
| My husband has been watching it and says it's great. |
nor his “pedo” texts, baseless, of course, against a volunteer cave dive expert! he’s such a colossal ass. |
+1. This was when I first realized what an awful person Elon Musk is. That poor rescuer that he maligned…the guy risks his life to save a dozen kids and Elon Musk defames him and calls him a pedophile |
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I was glued to DCUM when it was going on and we all knew the movie would come one day!
It was good, you could get a sense of how claustrophobic and dark it was and how the Thai Navy Seal got into trouble (died). I didn't realize the significance of the water engineer leading all of those people in diverting water away from above, how crucial that was. I remember a lot of other parts of the rescue but that was interesting and so necessary. |
^While Natisri’s team was blocking sinkholes outside the cave, inside the cave a team of hydrologists and drillers pumped out groundwater and diverted streams, removing some 420,000 gallons PER HOUR from the cave. |