The Diver's Message From the Dark

On July 2, 2018, twelve boys from the Wild Boars soccer team and their coach vanished into the Tham Luang cave system in northern Thailand. Monsoon rains had flooded the passages behind them. For nine days, their families gathered at the cave entrance — praying, weeping, barely sleeping — with no word whether their children were alive or dead. Then, on July 2nd, British diver John Volanthen surfaced from the murky water in a chamber deep inside the mountain.…