83: Buried Below pt.2: Lost Boys

In this jaw-dropping follow-up series, Maia and Grant peel back the layers of two wildly different but thematically linked disasters and rescues. First, they relive the Great Seattle Fire of 1889, a blaze so fierce it incinerated an entire business district, wiped out a million rodents, and forced the city to rebuild itself from brick up, even rerouting its streets into what’s now the famed Seattle Underground. Then, in a lightning-fast pivot, they transport you to northern Thailand, where twelve youth soccer players—the “Wild Boars”, and their coach became trapped five miles inside the flooded Tham Luang cave. Over ten harrowing days, an international army of volunteer firefighters, elite Navy SEAL divers, British cave-diving experts, and local monks battled monsoon waters and near-zero visibility to locate the boys, paramedic them with ketamine, and shuttle them out one by one through underwater tunnels narrower than a toddler’s crawlspace. It’s a story of human ingenuity, selfless sacrifice (including the life of Thai diver Saman Kunan), and unbreakable community spirit, proof that sometimes the greatest rescues happen not on the surface but buried below.

00:28:17 Lost Boys

00:33:59 Rise from the Ashes

00:43:38 Madam & the Money

00:55:41 Thailand’s Wild Boars

01:02:48 Flooded Junction

01:19:40 Laser Mapping & Lost Thumbprints

01:42:30 “Fish On!” 02:00:15 Operation Extraction

02:23:45 Fallen Seal

02:37:05 Global Village

02:50:26 Today’s Tours & Tributes

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