Four years after a multi-national team rescued a team of young soccer players from a cave in Thailand, Australian Federal Police rescue diver Kel Boers still cannot believe it was a success.
It has been four years since a multi-national team rescued a group of 12 young soccer players from a cave in Thailand, but Australian Federal Police rescue diver Kel Boers still cannot believe it was a success.
Constable Boers first heard about the Thai soccer team's plight on the news, when it was reported they were believed to be trapped in the cave."I never really even gave it a thought that that might be something we became involved in." Once they were found, the combination of medical experts and divers was tasked with figuring out how they could extract them.
"I have never seen such a media scrum. A camp had been set up and there was literally thousands of people, their support staff, media, a lot of people from the local Thai community that had come up to cook food for people."Rescue workers crouch down as they transfer a stretcher through Tham Luang Cave in Thailand.
Each dive on the way to where the team was trapped was a different length, some about 10 metres, others more like 400."I think when we got there it was 'let's see if we can just find them, first,'" he said."There was probably a general belief that we weren't going to find anyone, and if we did, we wouldn't find anyone alive.
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