The American cave explorer Mark Dickey (40) has been brought out – more than a week after he fell ill 1,000 meters below ground in a cave in Turkey.
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Rescue experts from all over Europe have been working frantically to try to save cave explorer Mark Dickey (40), who has been ill in a cave in Turkey since 2 September.
Now he is saved, writes NBC News. According to the European organization that coordinates the rescue work, it happened at 00:37 on Tuesday night local time.
– It’s fantastic to be above ground again. I was under the ground much longer than I had expected with an unexpected medical problem, he tells the press from the night of the stretcher to Tuesday Norwegian time – flanked by the rescue workers.
– I don’t know what to say, I’m overwhelmed, he continues.
BECAME ACUTELY ILL: The American cave researcher and rescue instructor Mark Dickey became acutely ill on 2 September and has been stuck in a sinking cave in Turkey. Photo: HANDOUT / AFP
CNN has previously reported that Dickey has received several blood transfusions inside the cave.
In a video message from the cave on Thursday, Dickey, who is a speleologist speleologist Speleology is the research and mapping of naturally formed cavities, i.e. cave research/cave research, thanked him for the help he had received so far, writes BBC.
– I know that the quick response from the Turkish authorities, and that they got hold of the medicines I needed so quickly, saved my life, he said, among other things – something he also repeats on Tuesday night:
– I threw up a lot more blood than you can imagine, and I got to the point where I thought I wouldn’t survive.
Dickey, who is described as a very experienced cave climber, became acutely ill during an expedition in the Morca Cave in the Taurus Mountains, southern Turkey, on September 2. He was there to survey the caves.
The rescue operation has been very challenging.
– This is a very complex rescue operation. Until now, there have been no cases in the world of a bigger cave rescue operation than this one, Dinko Novosel, a Croatian rescue worker leading the operation from the European side, said in a statement last week.
The cave Dickey was in is 1,276 meters deep and the third deepest cave in Turkey. The researcher is said to have become ill when he had reached 1,040 metres, writes Reuters.
The cave maintains a temperature of between 4 and 6 degrees Celsius.
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Published: 12.09.23 at 00:10
Updated: 12.09.23 at 00:57
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