Key takeaways:
- Mark Dickey is being rescued from the Morca cave system in southern Turkey after becoming stranded more than 3,000 feet underground.
- The Disaster and Emergency Management Directorate of Turkey has started to transport him on a stretcher out of the cave.
- The rescue mission has been a collaborative effort, and it is expected that Mark Dickey will be rescued soon.
American explorer Mark Dickey is on the brink of being rescued from the Morca cave system in southern Turkey after becoming stranded more than 3,000 feet underground.
The Turkish Caving Federation announced on Saturday that a team had reached Mark Dickey, 40, and started to transport him on a stretcher out of the cave. The federation said Dickey would rest at a camp hundreds of feet below the surface “for a while” and that the operation will then continue.
The Disaster and Emergency Management Directorate of Turkey told The Associated Press that the operation to move him from his camp at 1040 meters to the camp at 700 meters began on Saturday afternoon.
Rescuers are anticipating that he will need to stop and take breaks at camps set up along the passages. The Turkish Caving Federation said in an update Monday that if everything goes well, Dickey could be “completely” rescued “by tonight or tomorrow.”
The rescue mission has been a collaborative effort, with scores of international rescuers descending on the Morca cave system last week. The mission has been successful so far, and it is expected that Mark Dickey will be rescued soon.
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