A team of rescuers are ready to start moving an American cave explorer trapped more than 1,000 metres (3,280.84 ft) underground in southern Turkey and will have him out 'within several days,' Mersin Governor Ali Hamza Pehlivan said on Saturday.
U.S. caver Mark Dickey is seen in Morca Cave, days before he fell ill and became trapped some 1,000 meters underground, near Anamur in Mersin province, southern Turkey August 28, 2023. REUTERS/Agnes BerentesMERSIN, Turkey, Sept 9 - A team of rescuers are ready to start moving an American cave explorer trapped more than 1,000 metres underground in southern Turkey and will have him out "within several days," Mersin Governor Ali Hamza Pehlivan said on Saturday.
Dickey's condition is "stable but fragile," Carl Heitmeyer, acting public information officer for the New Jersey Initial Response Team, said in an emailed statement. The cave, difficult, deep and muddy, is "very much eating up rescuers' gear," he added.
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