Explosives, Tight Squeezes, Difficult Ascents: The Complicated Effort to Rescue the Trapped Cave Explorer in Turkey

At least 150 rescuers from across Europe are working to extract an American explorer who became ill while inside Turkey’s Morca cave. An international rescue mission is under way to save an experienced explorer stuck in one of Turkey’s deepest cave systems. Mark Dickey, an American cave explorer, instructor and chief of the New Jersey Initial Response Team, was trapped 1,040 meters, or more than 3,400 feet, below the surface in Turkey’s Morca cave.