Thirteen Lives

[boys chattering indistinctly in Thai]

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Tackle him, Chai.

You can do it, Chai.

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Come on, Chai. Let's go eat.

[lively folk song playing on speaker]

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Hey Prem.

Your mother bought a SpongeBob cake for your birthday party.

SpongeBob cake for a little boy!

Stop giving me a hard time.

Guess where we're going?

Before your party, let's go to the cave.

Yeah, the cave for the birthday boy!

I'll race you to the park.

Then I better go with you.

We have to go quickly, it'll be dark soon.

Coach, my dad's cooking for the party.

I promised to help.

You're a good son.

See you at the party.

Okay, bye. See you at 7pm.

Go! Go!

Hey, Arm!

Go!

-Ahh! -

Go, walk slowly.

This is always the best part.

Keep going!

I told Prem to come straight home after practice.

Well, if they stop over tell them we're waiting to start the party.

Sorry I'm late.

The shop got really busy.

You're Chai's mom, right?

That's right.

I want to watch the games but I'm always working.

Bye.

Looks like they did go to the cave.

All of them?

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In this rain?

It wasn't raining earlier.

Excuse me.

Shouldn't we drive to the cave and get them?

They'll get soaked riding back.

What are they thinking staying in the cave this late.

[weathercaster speaking on radio]

Heavy rain is forecast in Northern Thailand

as the monsoon season starts early.

Monsoon?

That usually starts in July.

It can't be the monsoon.

That cave floods every year.

[weathercaster continues speaking]

That's Chai's bike!

We're the parents who called ahead.

Have you seen the boys?

We've looked and can't go any further.

The cave's flooding.

We called the authorities.

It's flooding. How can the boys get out?

I've already asked for help.

Please wait.

Let's go in and get them.

Calm down and wait for help.

Chai!

Chai!

Chai! Can you hear me?

Chai!

Chai!

I just started my dinner.

Sorry, Governor.

Have the SEALs been deployed?

They're already on the ground, sir.

- Is that them there? -Yes.

This is Vern Unsworth.

I'm the Governor of the province. You are?

Captain Arnont Sureewong.

Navy SEALs, sir.

Move everything to the tent.

I need an update.

My men will enter with scuba gear.

This way, please.

This man lives nearby, sir. He knows the cave.

Hello.

I've mapped it. All of it.

Now, I haven't been in when it's flooded.

It's a whole 'nother game. You have to be a bit nuts.

But, look, there's some pretty tight corners in there.

A real squeeze.

But there are some big chambers too.

Let me show this to my men. Please.

Let's go.

Maybe I could find you something to eat, sir?

That would be kind.

This could be a long night.

[Somboon and Manop thanking and well-wishing]

Start laying guideline from here.

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It's a deep cave,

several kilometers long,

with some narrow passages.

If the boys have gone a long way in,

it could take several more hours.

But I have every confidence in the Navy SEALs.

Hello, Governor.

The SEALs are coming.

We couldn't find the boys.

We hit a flash flood.

There's no visibility or space to maneuver.

The currents are too strong and shifting.

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It's been two days since the Wild Boars football team got trapped in the cave.

Thai authorities have activated over one hundred government agencies.

In an astonishing nationwide effort to rescue the boys,

volunteers have also joined the effort, pumping water out of the cave.

There is mounting pressure on officials

to help these boys by any means necessary.

Minister.

Governor.

Bring me up to speed.

Pumping has begun, Minister.

I know that.

With the largest pumps in the region.

I ordered them myself.

So far the divers have been unable to get through as the water is so high.

The flooded sections are very narrow and difficult to navigate.

The current is very strong.

You haven't found the boys?

And you don't know where they are?

Or even if they're alive?

I know you were to be transferred out next week