Inside the cave rescue of Thailand’s lost boys

Mackenzie Samet

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Jul 6, 2018

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Onlookers watch and cheer as a helicopter flies towards an airstrip near Tham Luang Nang Non cave. Getty Images

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Indian schoolchildren hold placards and pictures during a prayer event for the safe rescue. AFP/Getty Images

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Volunteers celebrate at a makeshift press centre in Mae Sai district of Chiang Rai province. AFP/Getty Images

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Onlookers at the junction in front of Chiangrai Prachanukroh Hospital watch and cheer as ambulances transport the last rescued schoolboys and their coach from a helipad nearby. Getty Images

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Thailand Cave Rescue For Trapped Soccer Team

CHIANG RAI, THAILAND – JULY 9: Onlookers watch and cheer as a helicopter flies towards an airstrip near Tham Luang Nang Non cave to transport the fifth boy rescued from… Getty Images

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Thai students smile as they hold pictures of 12 boys and a soccer coach at a school in front of hospital where the boys were rescued. AFP/Getty Images

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Policemen walk out of the cave after team goes missing.

Rescuers in northern Thailand look for alternative ways into Luang Nang Non cave during a frantic rescue of 12 boys and their soccer coach. Getty Images

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Rescuers bring hoses into Tham Luang Nang Non cave. Getty Images

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Scuba tanks are delivered to the site for the Thai navy. Getty Images

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Thanaporn Promthep, mother of one of the twelve missing boys, displays an image, believed to have been taken in 2017, of her son Duangpetch Promthep. AFP/Getty Images

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Rescue workers prepare small diving mask to deliver inside Tham Luang Nang Non Cave. Getty Images

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International rescue team prepares to enter the cave . AP

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CHIANG RAI, THAILAND – JUNE 28: A group of rescuers check the situation inside Tham Luang Nang Non cave on June 28, 2018 in Chiang Rai, Thailand. Rescuers battle heavy… Getty Images

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International rescuers team prepare to enter the cave where a young soccer team and their coach trapped by flood waters Thursday, July 5, 2018, in Mae Sai, Chiang Rai province,… AP

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Thai soldiers relay electric cable deep into the cave. AFP/Getty Images

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Thai soldiers get into the Tham Luang cave at the Khun Nam Nang Non Forest Park in Chiang Rai on June 26, 2018 during a rescue operation for a missing… AFP/Getty Images

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Thailand Cave Rescue For Missing Soccer Team

Rescue workers carry heavy water pumping equipments. Getty Images

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A Thai technician emerges from the mouth of Tham Luang cave. AFP/Getty Images

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Thai divers carry supplies as rescue operations continue for trapped boys and their coach. AFP/Getty Images

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