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  • Tham Luang–Khun Nam Nang Non Forest Park, Mae Sai, Chiang Rai Province, Thailand
    Saturday Jun 23, 2018

    A group of football team went missing in the cave

    Tham Luang–Khun Nam Nang Non Forest Park, Mae Sai, Chiang Rai Province, Thailand
    Saturday Jun 23, 2018

    On Saturday 23 June 2018, a group of twelve boys aged between 11 and 16 from a local junior football team named the Wild Boars and their 25-year-old assistant coach, Ekkaphon Chanthawong, went missing after setting out to explore the cave.




  • Tham Luang–Khun Nam Nang Non Forest Park, Mae Sai, Chiang Rai Province, Thailand
    Saturday Jun 23, 2018

    The team contact was disconnected

    Tham Luang–Khun Nam Nang Non Forest Park, Mae Sai, Chiang Rai Province, Thailand
    Saturday Jun 23, 2018
    07:00:00 PM

    Around 7 p.m., head coach Nopparat Kanthawong checked his phone, finding about twenty missed calls from parents worried that their children had not come home.




  • Pong Pha, Mae Sai District, Chiang Rai 57130, Thailand
    Monday Jun 25, 2018

    Thai Navy started searching for the team

    Pong Pha, Mae Sai District, Chiang Rai 57130, Thailand
    Monday Jun 25, 2018

    On 25 June, Thai Navy SEALs divers arrived and began searching the cave. A Thai Navy SEAL said the water was so murky that even with lights they could not see where they were going underwater.




  • Pong Pha, Mae Sai District, Chiang Rai 57130, Thailand
    Wednesday Jun 27, 2018

    Arrival Another diver to helpfull

    Pong Pha, Mae Sai District, Chiang Rai 57130, Thailand
    Wednesday Jun 27, 2018

    On 27 June, three BCRC (British Cave Rescue Council) cave divers arrived with specialist equipment including Heyphone LF radios, followed by separate teams of open water divers.




  • Pong Pha, Mae Sai District, Chiang Rai 57130, Thailand
    Thursday Jun 28, 2018

    External forces supported the rescue operation

    Pong Pha, Mae Sai District, Chiang Rai 57130, Thailand
    Thursday Jun 28, 2018

    On 28 June, a United States Air Force team from the 320th Special Tactics Squadron, the 31st Rescue Squadron, and the 353rd Special Operations Group joined them.




  • Pong Pha, Mae Sai District, Chiang Rai 57130, Thailand
    Friday Jun 29, 2018

    An Australian Federal Police team helped the rescue operation

    Pong Pha, Mae Sai District, Chiang Rai 57130, Thailand
    Friday Jun 29, 2018

    By 29 June, an Australian Federal Police team of Specialist Response Group divers had arrived and on Sunday a Chinese team of divers from the Beijing Peaceland Foundation.




  • Tham Luang–Khun Nam Nang Non Forest Park, Mae Sai, Chiang Rai Province, Thailand
    Monday Jul 2, 2018

    The twelve boys and coach were located location in the cave

    Tham Luang–Khun Nam Nang Non Forest Park, Mae Sai, Chiang Rai Province, Thailand
    Monday Jul 2, 2018
    10:00:00 PM

    The search resumed on 2 July after the weather improved. The twelve boys and the coach were discovered at approximately 22:00, by Stanton and Volanthen, whose efforts were overseen from outside by BCRC diver Robert Harper.


  • Pong Pha, Mae Sai District, Chiang Rai 57130, Thailand
    Tuesday Jul 3, 2018

    Three Thai Navy SEALs joined the rescue forces

    Pong Pha, Mae Sai District, Chiang Rai 57130, Thailand
    Tuesday Jul 3, 2018

    On 3 July, the trapped group were joined by three Thai Navy SEALs who supported them until the rescue. The SEALs included Thai Army doctor Lt. Col. Pak Loharachun of the 3rd Medical Battalion, who had completed the Navy SEALs course.


  • Pong Pha, Mae Sai District, Chiang Rai 57130, Thailand
    Wednesday Jul 4, 2018

    Breathing difficulty

    Pong Pha, Mae Sai District, Chiang Rai 57130, Thailand
    Wednesday Jul 4, 2018

    On 6 July, the oxygen level in the cave was detected to have dropped, raising fears that the boys might develop hypoxia if they remained for a prolonged time.


  • Pong Pha, Mae Sai District, Chiang Rai 57130, Thailand
    Thursday Jul 5, 2018

    Death of rescue diver

    Pong Pha, Mae Sai District, Chiang Rai 57130, Thailand
    Thursday Jul 5, 2018
    08:37:08 PM

    On 5 July, at 8:37 pm, Saman Kunan, a 37-year-old former Thai Navy SEAL, made a dive from Chamber 3 to the T-junction close to Pattaya Beach to deliver three air tanks. During his return he lost consciousness underwater. His dive buddy attempted CPR without success.


  • Pong Pha, Mae Sai District, Chiang Rai 57130, Thailand
    Sunday Jul 8, 2018

    Start of the Rescue operation

    Pong Pha, Mae Sai District, Chiang Rai 57130, Thailand
    Sunday Jul 8, 2018

    On the morning of 8 July, officials instructed the media and all non-essential personnel around the cave entrance to clear the area as a rescue operation was imminent, due to the threat of monsoon rains later in the week, which were expected to flood the cave until October.


  • Pong Pha, Mae Sai District, Chiang Rai 57130, Thailand
    Monday Jul 9, 2018

    The boys were rescued from the cave successfully

    Pong Pha, Mae Sai District, Chiang Rai 57130, Thailand
    Monday Jul 9, 2018

    On 9 July, four more boys were rescued from the cave. On 10 July, the last four boys and their coach were rescued from the cave. Experience helped streamline the rescue procedure, so the total time to extract a boy was reduced from three hours on the first day to just over two hours on the final day, allowing four boys and the coach to be rescued.


  • Pong Pha, Mae Sai District, Chiang Rai 57130, Thailand
    Tuesday Jul 10, 2018

    Four boys and coach was rescued

    Pong Pha, Mae Sai District, Chiang Rai 57130, Thailand
    Tuesday Jul 10, 2018

    The remaining four boys and their coach were rescued. It was later confirmed that all of the rescue divers had also successfully exited the cave.


  • U.S
    Friday Jul 29, 2022

    Thirteen Lives (film)

    U.S
    Friday Jul 29, 2022

    Thirteen Lives is a 2022 American biographical survival film based on the Tham Luang cave rescue directed and produced by Ron Howard, from a screenplay written by William Nicholson. The film stars Viggo Mortensen, Colin Farrell, Joel Edgerton, and Tom Bateman. Production companies are Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Bron Creative, Imagine Entertainment.


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