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Dr. Richard Harris, right, with his diving partner Craig Challen.
More than 100 rescuers were forced to flee Tham Luang Cave just after 10 pm Tuesday night, moments after the last Seal of the Thai Navy stayed with the Wild Boars football team.
We now know the identity of Australia's mysterious diving companion, Richard Harris, who gave his final medical approval before every boy attempted to escape from the cave with seals from the Thai navy and all.
The man is Craig Challen from Perth, a close friend who asked Harris to join him for the mission to Thailand.
It can be revealed that the two men – not just Harris – swam towards the boys on all three of the rescue mission days and did not leave the cave until the boys were evacuated safely.
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Richard Harris and his diving partner Craig Challen, as well as the team of doctors with whom he worked and the DFAT agents.
Fairfax Media spoke briefly to Harris on Wednesday morning, but declined to comment. He acknowledged, however, the tremendous amount of support and thanks that has come from Australia and around the world for his efforts.
It later appeared that his father died Tuesday night.
According to the South Australian Ambulance Service, his father died "shortly after the successful rescue operation in Thailand."
Australian police divers involved in the perilous rescue mission, which saved the 12 boys and their coach for three days, shared incredible new details. Last moments in the cave, the dangerous conditions in which the men worked and what it meant to be involved in an extraordinary international rescue effort.
The Australian team spoke to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull late at night via Skype for 10 minutes, who congratulated them on their successful mission.
More than 150 people inside the cave – Thai, Australian, American, Chinese and others – helped pass the boys – who were on stretchers – hand in hand out of the cave once that they had reached room 3.
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The Thai Navy SEALs come out safely after completing the rescue mission
Sometimes boys were dragged on skeds or stretchers through sections of the cave, but sometimes they had to dive.
The pumps arrived about three hours after the coach was rescued from the cavern and pointed out that the rescuers were running against time, and rain, to complete the rescue operation.
Members of the Australian diving team, all asked not to be identified, told Fairfax Media the moment the pumps failed, like this: "There were 100 guys coming down the hill and the water was coming in. "
" We could see him getting up, "says another member of the Australian diving team.
During the first two days, federal police divers involved in the operation had to dive sections of the journey through the cave to the third chamber, which had become the main base of operation for the teams swimming and diving through the trapped boys.
These dives to room three "could be 10 meters." Then you get up and walk carrying 46 kg of diving gear on your back. "
Interim Governor of Chiang Rai, Jubilant, Narongsak Ostanakorn, thanked the Thai people and the government for their support after the successful rescue of the Thai cave.
The approach to the third chamber was probably the most difficult point technically
"[There] was a small hole less than one meter, so you go down through the hole to get into the water.
through and in room three was "like diving into the sumps, like the s-bend on your toilet.
"There is a large section after the first dive where it is rather a tunnel formed, rocks fall on other rocks. "
Approaching room three in the first days, the divers would walk about 300 meters and then dive between 10 and 20 meters.This model repeats itself several times.
The work of the Australians was to move huge amounts of equipment into the third chamber, including hundreds of air cylinders, to support those who
Australians, who carry out usually black water search operations, could not go beyond room 3 because they were restrained by their equipment, which would be stuck in even narrower spaces. 19659038] The pumps inside the cave failed shortly after the emergence of the last boy "title =" "src =" https://resources.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/ images / 1 / q / q / t / o / 5 / image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620×349.1qrfv6.png / 1531284684726.jpg "class =" photoborder "/>
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The pumps inside the cavern failed shortly after the emergence of the last boy
