The Rescue | Official Trailer | National Geographic Documentary Films

2m read

·Nov 11, 2024

Breaking News. Right now, out of Thailand. Rescue teams are working through the night to save 12 boys and their coach, trapped inside a cave. The monsoon had come early. The conditions in the cave were impossible. There was a very strong feeling that the children couldn't be still alive. We need expert cave divers out here. The Thai Navy SEALs put everything they had into it. But only this group of people who do it as a weekend hobby has those skills.

I was thinking this has actually got our name all over it. You couldn't see your hand in front of your face. Trying to wriggle through holes that I couldn't wriggle through. Finding a bigger space. Sliding through. And then repeating. Again and again. How many of you? They're all alive. Thirteen? Yeah, thirteen. We look into each other's faces thinking, "We may be the only ones that ever see them."

Finding the boys was the easy part. They didn't have a clue how to get those kids out. We didn't think it was possible to dive the children out. We came up with an actual logistical plan. I told him, "That's a horrible idea." And then Rick said, "What if it's the only idea?"

We were brutally honest. We promised multiple fatalities. It's about controlling your emotions and your fear. Panic is death, in the cave. My mind was on overdrive. Oh my god, am I gonna be good enough? If they die, it's gonna tear me apart. If you don't dive... ...everyone will die. I told the guys, "This is a one way trip. Once you start you cannot stop. Believe. Believe."

To the Moon and Not Back? | StarTalk

Is rising inequality necessarily bad

View All

Fraction multiplication as scaling examples

This right over here is an image from an exercise on Khan Academy, and it says compare using greater than, less than, or equal to. On the left, we have one fourth times five thousand, and we want to compare that to five thousand. On Khan Academy, you’d c…

Words Are the Most Powerful Drug | Origins: The Journey of Humankind

Humans stand alone in the animal kingdom. Our power over nature is unparalleled. What separates us? What is it that makes us human? The answer lies in our mastery of communication: the power to express complex thoughts and ideas; to organize and think col…

Touring the Vulcan Rocket on the Launch Pad - Smarter Every Day 297

In this video, we’re going to walk right up to a huge rocket on the launch pad. Not only are we going to walk up to it, we’re going to walk right up to the hot, naughty bits. That’s what I call it. We’ve got two liquid engines, two solid engines. They’ve …

Endothermic and exothermic reactions | Chemical reactions | High school chemistry | Khan Academy

So what we have depicted here is a reaction. I have a beaker, and in that beaker, I have molecules. I have these purple molecules; I also have these blue ones. If I were to just leave this beaker at room temperature in my laboratory, nothing is going to h…

Le Chȃtelier’s principle: Changing temperature | Equilibrium | AP Chemistry | Khan Academy

Le Chatelier’s principle says if a stress is applied to a reaction at equilibrium, the net reaction goes in the direction that relieves the stress. One possible stress is to change the temperature of the reaction at equilibrium. As an example, let’s look …

Adding 2-digit numbers without regrouping 1 | Addition and subtraction | 1st grade | Khan Academy

Try to pause the video and figure out what 71 plus 24 is. All right, now let’s do this together. So let’s think about what 71 actually means. Well, we have a one in the ones place. Let me make this clear. So this is the ones place and we have one one. So …

The Rescue | Official Trailer | National Geographic Documentary Films

More Articles