Through the Mekong River Archaeology Project that I have been involved with, I was introduced to Rick Stanton.
He is one of the divers who rescued the boys’ football team from the flooded cave in Thailand. I believe you have heard about it.
He was totally down to earth. Introduced by a mutual friend, there was none of the social tension that might arise if we’d met at one of the many speaking gigs he gives for people amazed by his story. We chatted for a while, then went to a bodega for a burger and chatted some more.
It’s interesting to see how the great actor Viggo Mortensen transformed himself to look like Rick for the Ron Howard film 13 Lives. Having spent two months with the film crew to teach Viggo and his co-star Colin Farrell to cave dive, the actors learned the craft so that they could do their own diving for the film. Colin transformed himself into Rick’s real-life dive buddy John Volanthen, and apparently, on set, the actors’ transformations were so remarkable that they nearly fooled Rick and John themselves.
A few days later we met up again and I asked him about how he balances risk. He said “You prepare for everything, and then you deal with what you didn’t prepare for.”
Later on I got to watch the trailers for the Hollywood film, and the documentary which cam out earlier. I look forward to watching them entirely. Here is a link to the Trailer on Youtube;
He is one of the divers who rescued the boys’ football team from the flooded cave in Thailand. I believe you have heard about it.
He was totally down to earth. Introduced by a mutual friend, there was none of the social tension that might arise if we’d met at one of the many speaking gigs he gives for people amazed by his story. We chatted for a while, then went to a bodega for a burger and chatted some more.
It’s interesting to see how the great actor Viggo Mortensen transformed himself to look like Rick for the Ron Howard film 13 Lives. Having spent two months with the film crew to teach Viggo and his co-star Colin Farrell to cave dive, the actors learned the craft so that they could do their own diving for the film. Colin transformed himself into Rick’s real-life dive buddy John Volanthen, and apparently, on set, the actors’ transformations were so remarkable that they nearly fooled Rick and John themselves.
A few days later we met up again and I asked him about how he balances risk. He said “You prepare for everything, and then you deal with what you didn’t prepare for.”
Later on I got to watch the trailers for the Hollywood film, and the documentary which cam out earlier. I look forward to watching them entirely. Here is a link to the Trailer on Youtube;
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