American Researcher Doing Well After Rescue From a Deep Turkish Cave, Calling It a ‘Crazy Adventure’

American Researcher Doing Well After Rescue From a Deep Turkish Cave, Calling It a ‘Crazy Adventure’
American researcher Mark Dickey is carried in a stretcher after being pulled out of Morca cave near Anamur, south Turkey, on Sept. 12, 2023. Mert Gokhan Koc/Dia Images via AP
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ISTANBUL—An American researcher was “doing well” at a Turkish hospital, officials said Tuesday, after rescuers pulled him out of a cave where he fell seriously ill and became trapped 1,000 meters (more than 3,000 feet) below its entrance for over a week.

Rescuers from Turkey and across Europe cheered and clapped as Mark Dickey, a 40-year-old experienced caver, emerged from Morca cave in southern Turkey’s Taurus Mountains strapped to a stretcher at 12:37 a.m. local time Tuesday. He was whisked to the hospital in the nearby city of Mersin in a helicopter.