They also directed the Oscar-winning documentary "Free Solo" in 2018. MARTINEZ: Those are the voices of husband-and-wife filmmakers Jimmy Chin and Chai Vasarhelyi. I mean, that is absolutely a terrifying situation for anybody. JIMMY CHIN: They were faced with basically, like, whitewater rapids and water rising all the way to the top of the cave.
But there still was a chance they could be alive, so it was still worth trying to push through. Rescue teams struggled to even reach the boys, who were trapped a mile inside the dark maze of caverns.ĬHAI VASARHELYI: At first, like, they didn't know if the children were alive, and it was very much in their thoughts that it was just going to be a body recovery. And as the water poured in, they went searching for higher ground. MARTINEZ: The boys had been playing in the cave when it flooded. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #2: This rain is going to get worse and worse and worse as the months go by - four months of monsoon.
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: They became stranded in the dark tunnels after a sudden and continuous downpour blocked all exits. A new documentary gives us an up-close, terrifying look at a daring rescue from three years ago, when 12 boys and their soccer coach were trapped inside an underwater cave in northern Thailand.