 Rescuers set to work in figuring how to extract 13 people, some of whom couldn't swim, from a winding, flooded, 4-kilometer stretch of caves that even experienced divers had to struggle with. Time was on our side because they were expecting heavy rains within three days. Diver Ben Rattamas told the BBC at the time, now the real hard work comes. An astonishing discovery of the children deep in a mountain cave catapulted Tiny Mae's side into international spotlight.