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The British diver who found the twelve Thai children and their soccer coach alive in a flooded cave in Thailand, recounted his "tremendous relief" when he counted them one by one during a rescue operation without
Richard Stanton, one of two British cave diving experts who located the "Wild Boar" team, told reporters his impressions on Friday when he reached them after traveling through kilometers in the flooded galleries
"This was a huge, huge relief, and at first we were not sure they were all alive, so while they were going down, I counted them until I 'arrives at the thirteenth,' he said. "At first, we could not see them", and they had to walk towards us, he said.
After 18 days underground, all the children were able to find the light of the day Tuesday, after a high-risk rescue that fascinated the world
It took these experienced divers to climb a dangerous course of several kilometers in narrow water-filled hoses, with the risk of new monsoon rains . This mission was "much more difficult than anything that could be done anywhere else in the world by other teams of cave divers," Stanton said.
Video footage of the moment where Mr. Stanton and John Volanthen discovered the so-called fat children, posted on the Facebook page of a Thai Navy diver, have been seen millions of times. Another diver Chris Jewell gave further details on the operations, explaining in particular that the authorities had diverted the course of rivers on the mountain to reduce the water level in the cave.
This action "gave us more time to succeed, "Jewell said. However, Richard Stanton does not see himself as a hero.
"We only used very special skills that we normally use for our own benefit," he said. "Sometimes we are in a position to use it in the service of others and that's what we did."
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