Contemporary · Southeast Asia · Disaster

2018

Thai cave rescue

July 10, 2018

Twelve boys and their soccer coach, trapped for seventeen days in a flooded cave in northern Thailand, were brought out one by one through pitch-black underwater passages by an international team of cave divers. The world watched the live coverage breathlessly. One Thai diver had died. All twelve children survived.

More from 2018 Contemporary

In context

Also in 2018 (6 other events on record)

Khashoggi murdered in Istanbul · Middle East · Politics
Cambridge Analytica scandal · North America · Technology
Korean leaders meet at the DMZ · East Asia · Politics
Trump and Kim meet in Singapore · Southeast Asia · Politics
Camp Fire incinerates Paradise · North America · Disaster
Avengers: Infinity War opens · North America · Culture

Before and after in Southeast Asia

Before: August 25, 2017: Rohingya cleansed from Rakhine
After: February 1, 2021: Myanmar coup

Before and after in Disaster

Before: June 14, 2017: Grenfell Tower fire
After: April 15, 2019: Notre-Dame burns

Era

Contemporary (2001–2026), one of 196 events from that era on Saeculum.