Turkey cave rescue: American Mark Dickey trapped underground shares emotional video as rescue effort drags on | EUROtoday

His resume of cave explorations and professional standing is limitless: secretary of the ECRA medical committee, lead teacher for Caving Academy, a US-based organisation that prepares different cavers for exploration, and a nationwide teacher for the National Cave Rescue Commission.

Having participated in lots of cave explorations in karst areas world wide for a few years, Mr Dickey is educated and expert – the type of particular person you’d need on difficult cave exploration just like the Morca mission.

Saturday 2 September – Mark Dickey falls ailing whereas exploring the Morca cave within the Taurus Mountain area of Turkey. The Turkey Caving Federation is contacted for assist.

Sunday 3 September – Hungarian Cave Rescue Service sends a group and physician all the way down to the cave to achieve Mr Dickey and supply medical care.

Monday 4 September – More folks from the Hungarian Cave Rescue Service as properly as 4 different rescuers from Bulgarian Cave Rescue attain the Morca base camp to help.

Tuesday 5 September – Team members start to consider options to get Mr Dickey out of the cave. Six models of blood are delivered to help in serving to Mr Dickey get higher

Wednesday 6 September – Cave rescuers from Italy, Croatia and Poland are known as in. Mr Dickey’s situation begins to stabilise.

Thursday 7 September – Mr Dickey’s situation nonetheless bettering.

Several worldwide cave rescue groups are concerned within the mission to rescue Mark Dickey from the cave in Turkey.

This consists of groups from Turkey, Bulgaria, Hungary, Croatia, Italy and Poland

The Turkish Caving Federation shared a photograph depicting the vertical of the cave the place 40-year-old American Mark Dickey is at the moment caught.

A fundraiser benefitting the rescue efforts to avoid wasting American Mark Dickey from a cave in Turkey has been arrange and raised over $40,000

The GoFundMe, arrange by the National Cave Rescue Commission the place Mr Dickey is an teacher, might be used to learn the groups of individuals aiding the mission.

“The ill caver is a well-known figure in the international speleological community, a highly trained caver, and a cave rescuer himself. He has participated in caving expeditions in many karst areas of the world for many years. In addition to his activities as a speleologist, he is also the secretary of the ECRA medical committee and an instructor for cave rescue organizations in the USA,” an outline for the GoFundMe reads.

Several worldwide rescue groups are concerned within the mission together with some from Italy, Hungary, Croatia, Bulgaria and Poland.

For rescuers to achieve and take away Mark Dickey might be a really difficult course of, in response to the Turkish Caving Federation.

In a publish from Tuesday, the federation described the extraordinarily difficult technique of eradicating a caver on the depths that Mr Dickey is at the moment at.

“The open cross-section of the Morca Cave. Mark is currently residing at the campsite at 3400 feet (1040 meters) from the entrance. It takes a full 15 hours for an experienced caver to reach to the surface in ideal conditions.”

Mr Dickey is unable to stroll with out help of now and desires a stretcher to be eliminated.

“The cave features narrow winding passages and several rappels,” the Turkish Caving Federation continued.

The Turkish Caving Federation mentioned that medical officers and Mark Dickey’s physician imagine his situation remains to be bettering.

In a tweet posted to X, previously identified as Twitter, on Thursday, the federation mentioned that the medical officer, Tulga Sener, spoke with Mr Dickey’s physician to find out if he’ll have the ability to depart the cave with out a stretcher.