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The Rescue: Faith meets Exploration and Medicine

Yolanda Gibson
3 min readNov 30, 2021

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The Rescue a National Geographic Documentary is profound. This film details the rescue of the Wild Boar Soccer Team of Thailand in 2018 from a flooded Than Luang caves in Northern Thailand.

A miracle is what was needed to find and save the boys. As fate would have it, one of the British cave divers met and fell in love with a lady resident of the village in Thailand were the boys were lost and she knew that it was divine intervention for him to participate in the extraction of the boys from the cave, thus there are not many skilled cave divers in the world, but he was one that was skilled to an elitism level.

A retired firefighter and veteran cave diver from England would be called during this perilous time. Rick Staton was oblivious to the fact he was actually preparing all of his life to save 12 children and their coach from a flooding, perilous cave.

The Thailand Navy SEALs, 5000 Volunteers from all over the world and elite cave divers would be what it would take to save these gentle souls.

Racing against the rain of monsoon season. the divers had to make life transforming decisions to either leave the children in…

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Yolanda Gibson
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