Heroic Doctor From ‘The Rescue’ Recounts Dramatic Mission To Save Kids Trapped In Thai Cave: “I Was Certain It Wouldn’t Work”
deadline.comHelp wanted: seeking anesthesiologist with world-class cave diving skills and experience in underwater rescues. Volunteer position.If a job listing like that went out, it’s hard to imagine anyone with the necessary background to apply.
Fortunately, one person ticks off all those boxes and more – his name, Dr. Richard “Harry” Harris. The mild-mannered Australian physician stepped up when all those abilities were called for – urgently – after 12 young members of a Thai soccer team and their coach became stranded in a flooded cave in the summer of 2018.Dr.
Harris – Harry, as he prefers to be called – flew to Northern Thailand to join an ad hoc team of British amateur cave divers, Thai government officials, Thai Navy SEALs, and American military personnel hastily assembled for a mission with very poor odds of success.
The heroic endeavor is told in The Rescue, the National Geographic documentary directed by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin that is a favorite to earn an Oscar nomination.“We’d been gently pushing to get involved since I first heard about the rescue,” Harris recalls, “which was probably on the Sunday or Monday after the boys went missing.”The extreme challenge involved had become evident even before Dr.
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