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  • Published: 21 February 2023
  • ISBN: 9781405944106
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 448
  • RRP: $22.99

Aquanaut

A Life Beneath The Surface – The Inside Story of the Thai Cave Rescue




Watched by the world with bated breath, read the enthralling inside story of the Thai Cave Rescue from leading rescuer Rick Stanton

Thailand, July 2018. Twelve boys and their football coach vanish into Tham Luang caves.

Rick Stanton, a retired Midlands firefighter, races to save them. The boys have been missing for days. Each hour, their chance of escape shrinks. Rick must swim, crawl and squeeze through treacherously tight submerged tunnels hunting for them.

But that is not the impossible part. Because if by some miracle they're alive then somehow Rick must bring the boys back out again . . .

He doesn't know it yet but all his life he's been training for this very moment . . .

  • Published: 21 February 2023
  • ISBN: 9781405944106
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 448
  • RRP: $22.99

Praise for Aquanaut

Diver Rick Stanton relives the rescue of the century

Sunday Times

As the world held its breath, the men and their team achieved the impossible. This is their riveting, behind-the-scenes story. Captivating

Sunday Post

You probably won't read a better-written book about diving this year . . . Funny and relentlessly self-deprecating. I read this at two sittings

Diver Magazine