American who helped save Mark Dickey speaks about 'dire' situation during Turkish cave rescue
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Carl Heitmeyer, an American who helped with the effort to rescue Mark Dickey from a cave in Turkey, says there were “no flat spots to walk on" and “no flat surfaces" inside.
"There are no flat spots to walk on, no flat surfaces. Much of it is vertical, but even the spaces that you walk through -- what we call, you just cave through -- it's still more of a climbing, scrambling up and down over rocks sometimes with slanted surfaces," he continued. "And then sometimes squirming through crawls, pushing through belly-tight crawls." Greg Norman is a reporter at Fox News Digital.
"Although cavers can move through there, when you put them in a stretcher it becomes so bulky and rigid it can't bend," Dickey added. "That is why it gets so much more complicated when it turns into a rescue."