'Close to fading': American caver speaks out about rescue from Turkish cave
Mark Dickey spoke to ABC News' "Good Morning America" about the dramatic rescue. LONDON -- American caver Mark Dickey said he could tell he was "pretty close to fading" after he fell ill while on an expedition to map a 4,186-foot-deep cave system in southern Turkey. "There's not that much that you tell yourself. You kind of just survive," Dickey recalled during an interview Thursday with ABC News on "Good Morning America." The 40-year-old New Jersey native and New York resident was more than 3,400 feet below the surface inside the Morca Cave in the Taurus Mountains on Aug. 31 when he "suddenly became ill with intestinal problems that rapidly progressed into life-threatening bleeding and vomiting," according to the New Jersey Initial Response Team, a group of volunteers led by Dickey who specialize in cave and mine rescue s. Dickey's fiancée and fellow caver , Jessica Van Ord, said she had a difficult decision to make -- s...