An American caver has been rescued by emergency workers near Anamur, in southern Turkey, after he became stranded hundreds of meters underground earlier this month.
Mark Dickey is “out in the hands of a rescue worker. He seems fine at first look. He will take a chopper to Mersin hospital,” Recep Salci of Turkey’s disaster and emergency management authority said on Tuesday. Dickey had been suffering from suspected gastrointestinal bleeding while inside the 1,276 meter-deep Morca Sinkhole in Morca Valley, the Turkish Caving Federation said. The European Cave Rescue Association received a call on September 2 saying that he was experiencing severe gastric pain.
Rescue teams had moved Dickey to 180 meters below surface, eventually retrieving him from the cave. In an update on Monday, the Turkish Caving Federation said Dickey’s rescue was set to be completed “tonight or tomorrow.” “If everything goes well, it is aimed to rescue Mark completely by tonight or tomorrow,” the federation said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter.
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