The Light That Holds Until Dawn

In 2018, a team of twelve boys from the Wild Boars soccer club and their coach became trapped deep inside the Tham Luang cave system in northern Thailand. For nine days, before divers reached them, they sat in absolute darkness. Rescuers on the surface debated whether anyone could still be alive. Journalists speculated. Experts offered theories. But when British diver John Volanthen finally surfaced from that flooded passage and said, "I found them — I've seen them with my own eyes — they're alive," everything changed.…