Richard Harris has been through a lot since he was part of the international team that miraculously rescued 13 members of the Wild Boars soccer team from a flooded Thai cave in 2018.

After being named 2019 Australian of the year with dive partner Craig Challen, he has retired as an anaesthetist, written books and become lieutenant governor of South Australia.

Richard Harris in Deeper. Credit: Madman

But it is a surprise to learn in a new documentary that Harris never felt like he deserved all the accolades for the Tham Luang cave rescue – and never overcame a chronic lack of self-confidence – until he completed an even more dangerous dive in New Zealand two years ago.

“After all these years of setting myself targets, this dive feels like I’ve achieved what I set out to achieve al

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