150 rescuers attempt to save US man who fell ailing 1,000 metres underground in Turkish cave
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crew of almost 150 rescuers are about to begin the rescue of an American man who grew to become significantly unwell whereas exploring the Morca Valley in Turkey alongside a analysis crew.
Mark Dickey, 40, is an teacher with the US National Cave Rescue Commission. He was co-leading an expedition to seek out and map a brand new passage within the Turkish cave that takes an skilled caver 15 hours to traverse when he began to endure from gastrointestinal bleeding.
He initially fell ailing near the underside of the cave at 1,120 metres. He has since been moved to a campsite situated 1,040 metres deep.
Units of blood have been delivered to Mr Dickey to assist deal with his bleeding, which has now stopped. And, whereas he has regained his capacity to stroll on his personal, he stays unable to get out of the cave with no stretcher.
Talking concerning the state of affairs, a regional official from Turkey’s catastrophe reduction company Cenk Yildiz stated: “We are now in a position to evacuate him [but] this operation will last at least three or four days.”
The head of the company’s search and rescue division, Recep Salci, shared that the plan is to carry Dickey on a stretcher and use a security-belt system to carry him by means of the cave’s slender openings. He added: “We are trying to expand the narrow areas by making small explosions, by breaking some areas.”
The cave options slender passages and a number of other rappels that require using ropes as a result of gradient of the slopes.
To assist with the difficult mission forward, rescuers from throughout the globe have began to fly into Turkey, together with speliologists from Hungary, Italy, Croatia, and America.
According to the European Cave Rescue Association, which is concerned within the operation, a mission at this depth is “very rare”, “extremely difficult”, and requires “many very experienced cave rescuers”.