Rescuers race to save U.S. man trapped 1,000 metres underground in Turkey cave
The effort to save Mark Dickey is one of the largest and most complex cave rescues in history, rescuers said.
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One of the largest and most complex cave rescues in history is currently playing out in Turkey, authorities say, after an American researcher fell ill on an expedition 1,100 metres below the surface.Mark Dickey, an experienced caver and speleologist, was helping to map the Morca cave in Turkey’s Taurus Mountains when he suffered serious gastrointestinal bleeding near the bottom of the 1,276-metre-deep cave.
What began as “intestinal problems … rapidly progressed into life-threatening bleeding and vomiting,” according to a post from the New Jersey Initial Response Team, a group of volunteer cave rescuers Dickey is affiliated with.
Dickey fell ill at a depth of 1,120 metres, the Turkish Caving Federation said in a Monday press release, but the team around him was able to help the 40-year-old caver back up to a base camp 1,040 metres underground, where he is being treated.
