Out of the Dark

The extraordinary international effort to find and rescue 12 boys and their coach from a remote cave in northern Thailand was watched closely by millions. The investigative current affairs programme Four Corners documents this wonderful and tragic tale from the day the boys first disappeared until the joyous moment the last person left the cave. We secured the first interviews with the international divers who risked their lives to get the boys and their coach out. They tell the story in their own words, describing the incredible dangers and pinpoint plans involved in getting the team out of the flooded cave. This special documentary was produced with less than four days of filming on the ground. While the team in northern Thailand worked around the clock securing interviews and shooting on location, the Four Corners team in Sydney compiled footage, fact-checked information, fine tuned scripts and edited what would become the definitive account of the Thai cave rescue. The film won Australia’s most prestigious journalism prize - the Walkley Award. The story has also been viewed more than 1.7 million times on YouTube and has been sold to networks around the world including al-Jazeera and MSNBC. Reporter Mark Willacy was in northern Thailand for this special report.