The World was told 12 Thai cave boys would swim to freedom... but that was a lie to soothe their parents. The truth of the courage and actions of a group of heroes is more shocking than people think.

Ansodyte · 2019-01-18T04:05:09+00:00

Boys will be boys

RunawayGrain · 2019-01-18T20:49:22+00:00

Those who’d been inside the flooded tunnels knew there was no way a child who had never dived before could make it through the muddy and treacherous obstacle course. The only hope was to sedate them, put oxygen-fed masks with silicone seals over their faces and let the expert cave divers carry them out.

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Dr Harry wasn’t confident the drugs would work. ‘I thought there was zero chance of success,’ he later admitted. Others involved were more upbeat, but even they thought that as many as five of the boys would die. Meanwhile, down in the cave, the Wild Boars were mentally preparing themselves. When they’d been told what was going to happen, they didn’t whimper or cry. They just accepted it. Whatever it took to get out of that cave was fine by them.

Those kids had balls.

Little Titan, the youngest, wrote: ‘Get ready to take me to eat fried chicken.’

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