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Rescue teams are preparing the way out to the entrance by installing additional ropes and fixings. The cave is split in 7 parts with different cave rescue teams responsible for them: Part 1: from 0 to -180 – Turkish Cave…

The patient’s medical condition is stabilized. With support, he could move slowely on his own and is feeling better. Technical teams are actually preparing the cave for transporting him out smoothly. As soon as the doctors are giving their permission,…

On Saturday, the 2nd of September ECRA got a call, that a member of an expedition, which is actually exploring the Morca cave system in Turkey fell ill in the cave. He had severe gastric pain and this happened at…

A 40-year-old American speleologist, Mark Dickey, fell ill during an international expedition exploring the Morca cave in the south of Turkey. He has gastrointestinal bleeding and when the report was received, he was clearly unable to leave the approximately 1,000-meter…

Mike Meredith, 79, was found dead at his house in Kuching, Sarawak, on the morning of Wednesday 11th January 2023. Mike was born on the 19th. July 1943 in Hereford.  At the age of 11 he obtained a Scholarship to Monmouth School,…

A massive earthquake devastated huge parts of Turkey and Syria, killing and injuring thousands of people and leading to what could be a major humanitarian disaster. Teams of cavers and cave rescuers form the Turkish Cave Rescue and Turkish Speleological Federation are…

Incident 91/2022 – 01/12/22 – 13:24 Having descended through Lower Long Churn into Alum Pot, a caver (m, 38) fell a distance of up to 5 or 6 m from the bottom pitch, sustaining suspected injuries to ankle, femur, lower…

On October 11, 2022, during the practical day of the ICAR congress, the member countries Croatia and Switzerland had the opportunity to present cave rescue techniques.