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In 2018, 13 members of a junior football team in northern Thailand get trapped in a flooded cave complex for 17 days and are rescued in an international dramatic rescue effort that involves the effort of more than 90 divers.
The Trapped 13: How We Survived The Thai Cave exclusively tells the story from the point of view of the boys and their coach.
There are no dramatizations. There is archive footage, as the core of the documentary & the accounts of the interviewees.
We’d hang out like family,”
the football coach Eak saysThey were all from poor families, and Eak, the coach insists that soccer keeps young boys from joining scooter gangs and doing drugs. It was a hot and sunny that day.
They had about an hour before one of the kids had an appointment with a tutor, which was enough time to bike to Tham Luong, say a prayer to the local spirit, and explore the cave. A sign says the cave is closed from July to November due to flooding, but it’s still June. They should be fine, right?
