An American researcher was trapped in a cave at a depth of more than 1,000 meters, during an expedition to map the Morca cave system.
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00:00 I'm Mark Dickey from Nearly 1000 Meters.
00:03 I want to thank everyone that's down here and thank the response of the caving community.
00:09 The caving world is a really tight-knit group and it is amazing to see how many people have responded on the surface.
00:29 The first team arrived safely. We brought down Dr. Zsudy and medical supplies.
00:35 Also, thank you for the blood. We brought it down.
00:38 Mark has been feeling much better ever since Zsudy administered all the fluids.
00:45 We are fine. The second Hungarian team arrived as well, safely. They are here.
00:50 We're still waiting for communications to actually reach down here.
00:53 So right now it's a day to two days' worth of travel for information to get back and forth.
00:58 So I don't quite know what's happened, but I do know that the quick response of the Turkish government
01:04 to get the medical supplies that I needed, in my opinion, saved my life.
01:10 I was very close to the edge when Jessica got back to me.
01:14 So many thanks to the Turkish government and the Turkish cavers that are helping to support the international community here.
01:22 And I look forward to working with everyone to safely get myself out with their assistance.
01:30 As you can see, I'm up, I'm alert, I'm talking, but I'm not healed on the inside yet.
01:36 So I need a lot of help to get out of here.
01:39 And this is often, in the caving world, a great opportunity to show just how well the international world can work together.
01:50 So I'm hoping to see many people from many countries all coming together.
01:57 We take care of our own, and it's really special to be taken care of.
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