Turkish and international cave rescue experts are working to save a 40-year-old American researcher who became ill and is trapped more than 3,200 feet into a cave in southern Turkey
European Cave Rescue Association members and Turkish gendarmerie officers stand next to the entrance of Morca cave near Anamur, southern Turkey, Thursday, Sept. 7, 2023. Turkish and international cave rescue experts are working to save an American speleologist trapped at a depth of more than 1,000 meters in a cave in southern Turkey after he became ill.
Dickey was on an expedition mapping the 1,276-meter deep Morca cave system for the Anatolian Speleology Group Association when he was about 1,000 meters down, according to Yusuf Ogrenecek of the Speleological Federation of Turkey. The rescue effort involved more than 170 people, including doctors, paramedics who are tending to Dickey and experienced cavers, Ogrenecek said, adding that the rescue operation could take up to two to three weeks. But it could take shorter depending on the situation.
The rescue teams, which are from Hungary, Bulgaria, Italy, Croatia and Poland, hope that the extraction can begin on Saturday or Sunday. Kovacs said that lifting Dickey will likely take several days, and that several bivouac points are being prepared along the way so that Dickey and rescue teams can rest.
Six mountain rescuers, including two medics, have left for Antalya to help in the rescue operation, Jerzy Siodlak, the head of Poland’s mountain rescue service, GOPR, said Wednesday on Radio RMF24.
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