[1/5] U.S. caver Mark Dickey is seen in Morca Cave, days before he fell ill and became trapped some 1,000 meters (3,280 ft) underground, near Anamur in Mersin province, southern Turkey August 28, 2023.
REUTERS/Agnes Berentes Acquire Licensing RightsMERSIN, Turkey, Sept 9 (Reuters) - A team of rescuers are ready to start moving an American cave explorer trapped more than 1,000 metres (3,280.84 ft) underground in southern Turkey and will have him out "within several days," Mersin Governor Ali Hamza Pehlivan said on Saturday.
More than 150 rescuers from Turkey and other nations have been working to save him from the country's third deepest cave.
Footage from the operation showed Dickey lying inside the cave and receiving treatment by a medical team.
"This is a vertical cave with a lot of water," Agnes Berentes, a photographer with Dickey on the mission, told Reuters.
Persons:
caver Mark Dickey, Agnes Berentes, Ali Hamza Pehlivan, Mark Dickey, Pehlivan, Carl Heitmeyer, Dickey, Recep Salci, Ali Kucukgocmen, Huseyin Hayatsever, Richard Chang
Organizations:
REUTERS, Rights, New, Reuters, Thomson
Locations:
Cave, Anamur, Mersin province, Turkey, Rights MERSIN, American, Mersin, New Jersey