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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/turkey-rescuers-effort-retrieve-ill-american-caver-mark-dickey-rcna103792
Rescuers race to save ill American stranded deep inside a cave in Turkey
The effort to rescue Mark Dickey, 40, is one of the largest and most complex cave rescues in the world, officials said.
More than 150 rescuers are racing to reach an American stranded deep inside a cave in Turkey after he became ill.
Mark Dickey, 40, is suffering from gastrointestinal bleeding — but he has been stuck several thousand feet below the ground inside the vast Morca cave since Saturday.
The Turkish Caving Federation, which is assisting in the rescue, said Dickey was at a campsite 3,400 feet from the entrance to the 4,100-foot cave, the third-deepest in the country.
The federation said Wednesday that his condition was stabilizing and that the bleeding had stopped. He can walk with assistance, but needs a stretcher to be removed from the cave, it said in a statement.
“The operation is logistically and technically one of the largest cave rescues in the world,” said the caving federation, which is working with the Turkish government.
A friend of Dickey's and a fellow caving enthusiast told NBC News on Thursday that Dickey has told rescuers he intends to climb out of the cave himself — but he warned that to do so is the underground equivalent of climbing Mount Everest.
"You can’t say strenuous enough. Mark is an elite caver, there’s only a couple thousand people of his caliber in the world who are doing really deep systems like this with the technical rope skills and the physical ability," said Carl Heitmeyer, public information officer for the New Jersey Initial Response Team.
It could be another week until Dickey makes it to the surface, he estimated.
Heitmeyer explained that Dickey started to feel ill Saturday, began to cough and found blood in his stools. Dickey was unable to eat and was semiconscious for three days, he said.
Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Authority, part of the Interior Ministry, said it had teams on standby and was working in coordination with the Turkish Caving Federation.
Rescuers were setting up rope lines Wednesday as part of the rescue effort. The National Cave Rescue Commission, based in Alabama, said on Facebook early Thursday that multiple rescue teams are working at the site.
“More cave rescue teams are arriving, and they are dividing the cave up into sections. Different teams are helping to rig those sections,” the group said.
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