In this screen grab from video, American caver Mark Dickey, 40, talks to camera next to a colleague inside the 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 (3,280 feet) in a cave in southern Turkey after he became ill. (Turkish Government Directorate of Communications via AP)
Turkey Cave Rescue
(Istanbul, Turkey) — Crews in Turkey are trying to figure out a way to get a New Jersey scientist out of a cave he is trapped in. Mark Dickey has gastrointestinal bleeding, making it impossible right now for him to walk out of the cave on his own. Dickey is about three-thousand feet down. The passageway to get to him is reportedly too narrow for a stretcher, so he needs to be healthy enough to walk out by himself.
