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I don't recommend movies a lot, but this one is worth your time.

Full of actual footage underwater and in the cave.

I had no idea the success or failure of this mission hinged on two middle aged, weekend hobby-divers from the UK--one a retired fireman and another who described himself as a "loser" when it came to sports.

1 posted on 01/27/2022 11:08:21 AM PST by Brookhaven
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What a nightmare. Can’t imagine being the victim OR the rescuer in this situation!


2 posted on 01/27/2022 11:17:00 AM PST by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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It was excellent. The hobby cave divers had unique skills and experiences that were absolutely essential, were probably the only people in the world who could have pulled this off. And they were only recruited asap because one of them had a Thai girlfriend who just happened to have gone home, and who alerted the authorities that there were these crazy guys who did this sh*t for grins, and who contacted her boyfriend back in England, who got on the cave divers network, and…


3 posted on 01/27/2022 11:18:52 AM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: Brookhaven

So, Brookhaven, this is already available on NatGeo?


4 posted on 01/27/2022 11:23:06 AM PST by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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To: Brookhaven

I too don’t recommend movies a lot, but this one is worth your time!!


5 posted on 01/27/2022 11:23:14 AM PST by Buffalo Bob
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To: Brookhaven

The only thing I remember is Musk calling some guy names, and lawsuits that went away somehow


6 posted on 01/27/2022 11:30:10 AM PST by algore
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Didn’t Elon Musk call one of those guys a pedophile or something like that?


7 posted on 01/27/2022 11:52:58 AM PST by Track9 (Agamemnon came home to a HRC type party. )
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To: Brookhaven

I watched it a few weeks ago. Pretty interesting. The rescue was, for all practical purposes, impossible. It took more than two hours to swim to where the boys were, in an underwater cave with passages so tight they had to take off their tanks and push them in front.

The guys who performed the underwater rescue were doubly heroic because, had they failed, the Thai government would probably have prosecuted them for murder.


8 posted on 01/27/2022 11:53:06 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong [FJB])
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This is an excellent documentary. It really hits you that they really didn’t think they would be able to save them all.


10 posted on 01/27/2022 12:01:58 PM PST by packrat35 (Pelosi is only on loan to the world from Satan. Hopefully he will soon want his baby killer back)
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If I recall, the “loser” got knighted by the Queen of England, and will (hopefully) never pay for another beer the rest of his life - not bad! The documentary was powerful, I watched it with my kids and they were mesmerized.


11 posted on 01/27/2022 12:18:53 PM PST by lump in the melting pot
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I remember that Elon Musk offered to try to help. He got into a spat with some middle-aged guy who was involved in the rescue attempt and called him a pedo. Always wondered whether there might be some civil litigation that resulted from what seemed like a very public defamation. Or perhaps Elon was just using an abbreviation for pedagogical genius.


14 posted on 01/27/2022 12:22:21 PM PST by unlearner (Si vis pacem, para bellum. Let him who desires peace prepare for war.)
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“...but without the international volunteer cave divers that were flown in (reluctantly by many of the Thais leading the mission)...”

I recently started watching a youtube channel called Adventures with Purpose. A small group of divers that search bodies of water with their fancy fish finders (including side-scan sonar) looking for missing persons in their vehicles. Some are a few days old, some are 30-years old.

Most of the police have been pretty good, but there are some that don’t want their intrusions at all. In the last couple of years they have found something like 20 people. Some in only a few hours! Lots of these small towns don’t have the resources, but some of the towns/cities you sure wonder what the police were doing.


15 posted on 01/27/2022 12:29:54 PM PST by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful.)
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To: Brookhaven

I saw the movie. Worth it!


18 posted on 01/27/2022 2:22:56 PM PST by Nateman (Xi Jinping is the most diabolical enemy America has ever had. 🍊)
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To: Brookhaven
Thank you for the recommendation. I just got done watching. I found the extraction difficult to watch and I have completely lost my love of spelunking or wanting to live in a cave.

I think I might take up the hobby of exploring open fields.

19 posted on 01/27/2022 2:46:05 PM PST by Manic_Episode (A government of the government, by the government, for the government)
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To: Brookhaven

movie ping - thanks for posting!


22 posted on 01/27/2022 6:18:51 PM PST by WhattheDickens? (Funny, I didn’t think this was 1984…)
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To: Brookhaven

Watched this last night, what an incredible rescue. I’d recommend this as well.


23 posted on 01/28/2022 6:13:09 AM PST by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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To: Brookhaven
I found it interesting that in order for the kids to endure the journey out of there they were lightly sedated....understandably so.....and also why they had checkpoint areas along the way. All in all it was an enormous undertaking and about as high risk as you can get.
24 posted on 01/28/2022 6:22:10 AM PST by caww ( )
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