The British cave diver who led the rescue of the Thai boys’ soccer team and personally saved the captain, Duangpetch Promthep, has opened up about the heartbreaking death of the 17-year-old.
Promthep, who was better known as “Dom”, on WednesdayBritish divers Rick Stanton and John Volanthen at the cave diving base camp during the rescue efforts.It was Stanton and his colleague John Volanthen who successfully navigated the 2.2 kilometres of treacherous, flooded Tham Luang cave tunnels and discovered the 12 young boys and their coach, nine days after they became trapped in 2018.
Duangpetch Promthep is greeted by relatives at his home in Mae Sai district, Chiang Rai province, northern Thailand after the rescue in 2018. The soccer team captain died on Wednesday in England.Stanton said “when John Volanthen and I first found the Wild Boars at the end of a fraught nine-day search, it was Dom who took the lead and wrote the first messages to the outside world”.
“All members of the British Cave Rescue Council team who were involved in that event have been informed, and along with myself send their condolences to Dom’s family, teammates and friends under such heartbreaking circumstances.” The head of the Zico Foundation, former Thai national team captain and coach Kiatisuk Senamuang, said in an online news conference that he did not know the cause of death and that Dom had apparently been in good health.
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