NBC’s Bradley on American Scientist Trapped in a Turkey Cave: It’s a Logistical Nightmare

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BRADLEY: "So we’re in southern Turkey just outside the mouth of the more pokemon, as you can see, there’s something of a tent city. That’s been growing just behind me now we’re seeing rescue workers and experts flown in from around the world, but most of the teams that we’re seeing here are hungarian, greek and italian. All of them coming here trying their best to rescue this American explore mark decades been trapped underground, but a very serious medical condition. For much of the past week, guess gastrointestinal bleeding, that’s not necessarily a serious condition if you’re at a hospital or in a major city, it’s almost routine when you’re trapped more than three thousand feet underground. It is a very serious situation, as you can see a logistical nightmare. Getting equipment down. There is a real problem because of all of these rescue workers. They have to be expert climbers. They have to basically dropped themselves down a very steep cliff into the cave and if they try to come back up, they have to climb up using ropes and according to the rescue workers that I’ve been speaking to that’s the easy part. This is a very difficult cave. I spoke with one of the people who was with mark down underground when he does this this illness, while they were on this original expedition. Here’s what he had to say."