Who would Eric Brown like to play him in the movie?

The Langley-raised man who gained international attention as one of the divers who took part in the Thai cave rescue of a teen soccer team and their coach laughs at the question

91裸聊视频淚 don91裸聊视频檛 think I91裸聊视频檒l have a character. I think I91裸聊视频檒l be support worker number four,91裸聊视频� he chuckled.

Brown has been contacted by one producer already and knows of about five companies with projects in the works to retell the incredible tale.

91裸聊视频淭hey don91裸聊视频檛 really have to embellish,91裸聊视频� he told the Langley Advance. 91裸聊视频淚f they stick to what happened, they don91裸聊视频檛 have to Hollywoodize it.91裸聊视频�

Brown was in Langley visiting family for the B.C. Day long weekend before jetting off for an interview in Montreal. He sat down with his hometown newspaper to talk about the rescue and the swirl of national and international media attention during and since the rescue.

The Advance found out Brown91裸聊视频檚 hometown connections through a Tweet from someone local who recognized that the 36-year-old had graduated from D.W. Poppy Secondary.

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When Brown learned about the soccer team trapped in the cave, he contacted a friend who was at the rescue and offered help.

He91裸聊视频檚 one of about half a dozen international divers in the area trained in deep water and cave rescue, and was invited to the scene.

The mission began June 23 when the boys didn91裸聊视频檛 return home. On June 24, rescue teams found the bags and sandals of the boys deep within the caves that started flooding.

On June 25, officials start pumping water out of the caves but had still not reached the boys.

The teen boys and their coach were trapped for days underground before the first rescuers got to them on July 2. The next day Thai Navy SEALs took food, fresh water and blankets to the boys and provided the first photos to their families and the world.

Starting Sunday, July 8, 18 divers entered the caves and 11 hours later emerged with the first of four boys. Four more were extracted Monday, July 9, with the rest safely brought out Tuesday, July 10. The world watched the rescue unfold over several days.

Divers first strung ropes through the caves to help those underwater navigate in the near zero visibility through the miles-long cave system that took hours to get through. Then crews started ferrying items in and out of the cave system. Brown explained, for example, that in addition to the two tanks he needed for himself, he would take in four to six air tanks strapped to his lower body.

91裸聊视频淲e had seen dry maps of the cave,91裸聊视频� Brown explained. 91裸聊视频淎 lot of people were pretty confident, who had been inside, the way that the contour was that [the team] could find a spot that would sustain them for enough time. How much time that really was, I91裸聊视频檓 not sure. I think it was definitely pushing it eight, nine, 10 days.91裸聊视频�

Three pumps were trying to lower the water level in the cave system that has been flooded by a monsoon.

When the time came to start bringing out the boys, divers were stationed along the route. Brown was positioned couple hours into the cave. There were tank changes and figures moving past him in near zero visibility, a slow and time-consuming operation.

91裸聊视频淪o you91裸聊视频檙e not really sure how successful it is to be honest, you know. It was successful up to me but they still had two hours to get [out] to where the U.S. and Thai medical teams were.91裸聊视频�

The divers along the cave system couldn91裸聊视频檛 get updates while underwater.

91裸聊视频淭hat91裸聊视频檚 the hardest part,91裸聊视频� he said. 91裸聊视频淵ou91裸聊视频檝e got to wait another three hours, swim yourself back out then pop your head up.91裸聊视频�

Those on the surface would hold up the number of fingers to show divers how many kids were out safely.

Though not a religious man, Brown said someone was watching out for those boys.

91裸聊视频淭here91裸聊视频檚 something out there. There has to be after something like this,91裸聊视频� he commented.

Brown is not surprised that the soccer team coach, a former monk, has returned to his faith and the boys went into a Buddhist monastery after getting out of hospital to become novice monks.

Rescue diving is not new for Brown.

He is part of a group of divers trained in deep diving and more extreme situations such as cave rescue.

In the approximately half a dozen times he91裸聊视频檚 been called upon to help in such situations, it91裸聊视频檚 typically not a fairy-tale ending.

91裸聊视频淣inety per cent of the stuff that I go out on unfortunately on these occasions is [body recovery],91裸聊视频� Brown said.

World traveller

Brown owns Hydronauts Dive Centre on a Thai island, where he provides diving for the tourist trade. Before that he was in Egypt for seven years and travelled around a lot before that.

91裸聊视频淵ou work a lot harder than you think living on a tropical island,91裸聊视频� he joked.

Diving and owning his dive business wasn91裸聊视频檛 on the radar when he was growing up in Langley.

His mom, Dorothy, worked for Air Canada for many years, and his parents would take him and his brother, Kirk, around the world, experiences that gave him a taste for water.

91裸聊视频淎ll of my friends are surfers,91裸聊视频� but a shoulder injury took him out of that scene. Brown still wanted to stay in the water and found diving.

He learned cave diving mostly in Mexico and returns there annually.

91裸聊视频淭here91裸聊视频檚 some pretty remote places that are kind of hard to get to but also come with a nice big price tag,91裸聊视频� he said.

There are still places in the world he plans to check out. The wrecks of the Great Lakes appeal to him.

91裸聊视频淚91裸聊视频檓 not really a fish and coral type person. I91裸聊视频檓 more of a cave and wrecks type,91裸聊视频� Brown explained.

Next year, he91裸聊视频檒l likely get a chance to check out cave diving in France. A French dive shop has invited all the rescuers for a free weekend so there91裸聊视频檚 talk of making it a bit of a reunion.