The Less Mentioned Hero of the Thai Cave Rescue. Surapin Chaichomphu is from Thai Water Well Association. Volunteer and personally spend around $6,000 USD to bring equipments to dig wells and divert water out of the cave so the rescue team could bring out the Soccer team out safely.

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image showing The Less Mentioned Hero of the Thai Cave Rescue. Surapin Chaichomphu is from Thai Water Well Association. Volunteer and personally spend around $6,000 USD to bring equipments to dig wells and divert water out of the cave so the rescue team could bring out the Soccer team out safely.

pohejo on July 13rd, 2018 at 07:24 UTC »

And this is the statue made in his honor

saintshing on July 13rd, 2018 at 07:50 UTC »

His name is Suratin Chaichompoo. I googled "Surapin Chaichomphu" and didn't find anything related to the rescue.

holysocks on July 13rd, 2018 at 12:06 UTC »

lots of volunteers

* also the farmers who allow their fields to be flooded for them to pump out the cave water