13 Trapped Underground… And the Cave Started Flooding

13 Trapped Underground… And the Cave Started Flooding

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*Thai Cave Rescue / Tham Luang 2018 true story* — In this video you’ll watch one of the most intense *true survival stories* ever: *13 boys trapped underground in a flooded cave* in *Chiang Rai, Thailand**. This is the full **Tham Luang cave rescue documentary-style survival story**, where the **Wild Boars soccer team* vanished and the world asked one question: are they still alive?

On *June 23rd, 2018**, twelve boys (ages 11–16) and their coach **Ekkapol “Coach Ek” Chantawong* entered the *Tham Luang Nang Non cave* near **Mae Sai**, in northern Thailand—right as monsoon rain began to fall. Within hours the cave flooded, the exit disappeared, and the mountain turned into a sealed underground maze of darkness, cold water, and fear.

Above ground, families found the boys’ *bicycles* outside the cave and the rescue began. Thai Navy SEALs and international cave divers pushed into zero-visibility tunnels, laying rope lines through flooded choke points where a single mistake could be fatal. After *9 days**, expert divers **Rick Stanton* and *John Volanthen* finally found them alive—13 silhouettes huddled in the dark. But being found wasn’t being saved.

Rescuers faced an impossible decision: wait for the water to drop (which could take months) or attempt a rescue through submerged tunnels. During preparations, volunteer diver and former Thai Navy SEAL *Saman Kunan* tragically died, proving how deadly this mission really was. Then the extraction began—bringing the boys out *one by one* through the flooded cave until every child and their coach reached daylight.

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