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An American cave explorer trapped more than 3000 feet underground in a cave in southern Turkey has recorded a video message to say he was up and alert after a team of rescuers reached him with medical supplies.
Mark Dickey, 40, was on an international exploration mission in the Morca cave in Mersin province’s Taurus mountains when he began suffering from gastrointestinal bleeding. More than 150 rescuers from Turkiye and other nations have been working to save him.
“This is a difficult operation. It would take a (healthy) person 16 hours to come out. This operation will last at least three or four days,” Cenk Yildizof Turkiye‘s disaster relief agency said. Rescuers believe Dickey will have to rest frequently at various points along the way up.
Mark Dickey, 40, was on an international exploration mission in the Morca cave in Mersin province’s Taurus mountains when he began suffering from gastrointestinal bleeding. More than 150 rescuers from Turkiye and other nations have been working to save him.
“This is a difficult operation. It would take a (healthy) person 16 hours to come out. This operation will last at least three or four days,” Cenk Yildizof Turkiye‘s disaster relief agency said. Rescuers believe Dickey will have to rest frequently at various points along the way up.
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