Discharged from hospital, rescued Thai boys recount licking water from cave walls

They were only supposed to be gone an hour. They brought no food, only a rope and flashlights they had stuffed into their soccer bags without telling their parents where they were going.

The 12 boys had persuaded their 25-year-old coach to take them after soccer practice to the Tham Luang Nang Non cave in northern Thailand, a 6-mile-long maze of winding passageways, jagged rocks and dark pools - a young explorer's dream.

And as they explored, the rains came.

With frightening speed, the waters unleashed by a monsoon storm flooded the cave, forcing the boys and their coach to lick water off the rock walls to survive until they were extracted by an international rescue