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>> i am really happy. >> we are happy, too. >> rick talking to 14-year-old adun samon. adun spoke english and had become a leader down in that cave. >> it's okay. >> it's okay. >> many people are coming. >> incredibly over the next three days, rick and that team would get all of the boys and that coach out alive. tonight, five years after that rescue, adun is still playing soccer, but now right here in the u.s. >> this is just life-changing for me coming to the -- to the united states. >> reporter: this was adun arriving in america to begin studying at the masters school, just outside new york...

Our camera there on graduation day. and there was someone else there, too -- his rescuer, rick stanton. >> it's great to see his development from when he was a vulnerable child to being an adult and going to medical school. how amazing is that? you know, i've -- i'm very proud of the fact that i was partly responsible for his -- his -- you know, his life, in a way. >> reporter: adun's rescuer, rick, who offered so many reassuring words in that cave, now offering them at commencement. >> as a cave explorer, i've spent my life as far from that classroom as one can get. >> reporter: the importanc...

The Australian anaesthetist and cave-diver on why he believes in sensible risk-taking.

The Australian anaesthetist and cave-diver on why he believes in sensible risk-taking.

The Australian anaesthetist and cave-diver on why he believes in sensible risk-taking.