US Cave Explorer Trapped 3k Feet Underground

TURKEY – More than 150 rescuers raced to reach a 40-year-old American man who fell ill and became trapped some 3,280 feet underground in a cave he was exploring in Southern Turkey.

Mark Dickey was on an international exploration mission in the Morca cave in the Taurus mountains when he began suffering gastrointestinal bleeding according to Turkey’s Tumaf Caving Federation.

Tumaf says a phone line to reach a depth of 1,040 meters had been set up and that Croatian rescuers were setting up an additional “cavelink” communications system as a backup.

Medics at the scene would decide whether it was possible for Dickey to be pulled out without a stretcher.