Rescue teams are working to extricate an American researcher after he suddenly fell ill while 3,000 feet deep inside a cave in Turkey.
Mark Dickey, 40, was on an expedition last week with his colleagues in the Morca cave, located in the Taurus Mountains of southern Turkey, when he unexpectedly began vomiting due to stomach bleeding. He was unable to leave on his own, prompting the leaders of the expedition to seek international help, the European Cave Rescue Association (ECRA) said in a statement released Thursday.
Recovery teams, doctors and paramedics came from across Europe to assist and extract Dickey, amassing to 190 people from 8 countries who have come to help the cave expert, according to The Associated Press.
I’m guilty of only reading headlines on this story so far. I didn’t realize he was a researcher. I thought he was just an adventurer. And I didn’t realize he was actually sick. I thought it was yet another case of someone with too much money doing something stupid, so I didn’t read further.
That’s why you always read further.
Also don’t go caving
He’s a researcher. He’s doing it for scientific reasons and to further the scope of human knowledge. He’s not some asshole who just decided to conquer the latest cave. He has a valid reason to be in that cave. You never know what we could learn from such an environment.
But the headline says “ill US researcher”. Did the headline change or am I missing something here.
This headline does. Previous headlines did not.