I am a foreigner living in Thailand so the events at the cave in 2018 were fairly close to home for me personally.
At the time this rescue was happening, I was aware that the Thai authorities were not always cooperative with the scruffy "falangs" (a very derogatory term used in Thailand for foreigners) who showed up to try to save the boys in the cave along with the one adult who was with them. But, this documentary attempted somewhat to make plain the extent to which the Thai authorities actually hindered the foreigners after their own Thai Navy SEALS failed. I guess the situation might have been worse than was shown in this documentary but that the producers felt that they had to tone down the truth a bit.
This documentary makes it clear, for example, that the foreign divers were, at various times, forbidden to do, and were otherwise obstructed in doing, what they came to Thailand to do. That is, to rescue the 13 individuals who were trapped in the cave. And all this entirely at their own risk of injury or possible death. It's barely credible that the Thais evidently said that if any of the 13 died in the rescue attempt, then the foreigners might be prosecuted under Thai law, I guess for "manslaughter" or whatever they might call that. The truth is that if these incredible people had not flown in from all over the western world at huge personal risk, it is quite certain that all 13 would have been left to die. I'm afraid that this is in fact fairly typical of the way foreigners are generally treated in Thailand.
The guys who made the incredible rescue in this instance were truly heroic and I am glad the documentary made that clear.
At the time this rescue was happening, I was aware that the Thai authorities were not always cooperative with the scruffy "falangs" (a very derogatory term used in Thailand for foreigners) who showed up to try to save the boys in the cave along with the one adult who was with them. But, this documentary attempted somewhat to make plain the extent to which the Thai authorities actually hindered the foreigners after their own Thai Navy SEALS failed. I guess the situation might have been worse than was shown in this documentary but that the producers felt that they had to tone down the truth a bit.
This documentary makes it clear, for example, that the foreign divers were, at various times, forbidden to do, and were otherwise obstructed in doing, what they came to Thailand to do. That is, to rescue the 13 individuals who were trapped in the cave. And all this entirely at their own risk of injury or possible death. It's barely credible that the Thais evidently said that if any of the 13 died in the rescue attempt, then the foreigners might be prosecuted under Thai law, I guess for "manslaughter" or whatever they might call that. The truth is that if these incredible people had not flown in from all over the western world at huge personal risk, it is quite certain that all 13 would have been left to die. I'm afraid that this is in fact fairly typical of the way foreigners are generally treated in Thailand.
The guys who made the incredible rescue in this instance were truly heroic and I am glad the documentary made that clear.
