Mark Dickey was in the cave for roughly 500 hours.
An American researcher who spent 11 days stuck in a Turkish cave after falling ill has said he thought he would die there before a complex international rescue operation got him out.
What caused his condition, which rendered him too frail to climb out of the cave on his own, remained unclear. Rescuers had to widen some of the cave’s narrow passages, install ropes to pull him up shafts on a stretcher and set up temporary camps along the way before the operation could begin. Mr Dickey will continue his recovery at Mersin City Hospital. Laughing and joking during his brief media conference on Thursday, he said he would “definitely” continue to explore caves.
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