{UAH} Thailand cave rescue: Meet the 'A-Team' of heroic volunteer British divers who led search

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These are the two men leading the Thai rescue mission. They are real heroes without parallel- reputed to be the best cave divers on the planet. if anybody could save those Thai schoolboys, these are probably the only men who could do it..

Bobby

Thailand cave rescue: Meet the 'A-Team' of heroic volunteer British divers who led search

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British divers Rick Stanton and John Volanthen have established a reputation as being among the greatest cave rescuers on the planet CREDIT: SWNS 

•  Nick Allen 
 
• Francesca Marshall 
 
• Victoria Ward

5 JULY 2018 • 12:41PM

For the heroic British divers who found a missing Thai football team in a flooded cave system, it was only the latest in a series of brave rescue missions around the globe.

Rick Stanton, 56, and 47-year-old John Volanthen had been called in by the Thai authorities last week along with fellow British caving experts Robert Harper, from Somerset, and Vern Unsworth.

The UK divers who reached the stranded group that had been missing for nine days were described as the "A Team" by Bill Whitehouse, vice chairman of the British Cave Rescue Council.

He told Radio 4's Today programme: "They are really the sort of A-Team, if you like. They have been at the spearhead of making their way through because they...

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