It could take days to bring Mark Dickey to the surface.
A Turkish officer walks next to the Morca cave during a rescue operation near Anamur, south Turkey
“This afternoon, the operation to move him from his camp at 1,040 metres to the camp at 700 metres began,” the official from the Disaster and Emergency Management Directorate told The Associated Press . Rescuers from across Europe have rushed there to help Mr Dickey and to extract him, including one Hungarian doctor who reached and treated him inside the cave on September 3.Teams comprised of a doctor and three or four others take turns staying with the American at all times.
“If he feels well, we will assist him, and he will come out fast. But if his condition worsens, we will have to bring him up on a stretcher.” In Rome, Federico Catania, the spokesman for Italy’s National Alpine and Speleological Rescue, described the cave as one of the deepest in the world.
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