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Aquanaut: Thirteen Lives Saved, The Thai Cave Rescue

Pre-order the enthralling autobiography of cave-diver and former firefighter Rick Stanton, who with astonishing heroism played a key role in the 2018 Thai Cave Rescue.”They were utterly alone inside the mountain, isolated from the rest of the world. They might as well have been on another planet . . .”In July 2018, twelve boys and their soccer coach disappeared into Tham Luang Cave in Thailand.Trapped miles beneath the earth, not even the Thai Navy SEALS had the skills to bring them to safety. And with the floodwater rising rapidly, time was running out…Any hope of survival rested on Rick Stanton, a retired Midlands firefighter with a living room filled with homemade cave-diving equipment, who knows caves better than anyone in the world.Fewer people have walked on the moon than have reached the depths of the earth that Rick has explored in his 40 years of cave-diving. The Thai Cave Rescue was the culmination of a career long in the making, requiring every ounce of the skill, ingenuity and sheer bloody-mindedness that Rick had been building through his career. In a mission that held the entire world in its thrall, Rick and his team raced against time and almost insurmountable dangers, refusing to give up until all thirteen were brought safely back to the surface.An unforgettable story of courage and survival in the most hostile, remote environments on earth, Aquanaut is the memoir of a true hero, told with humour, compassion, and an unending drive for adventure.