American rescued from Turkish cave feared he was ‘probably not going to get out’

The American cave explorer who was rescued from a Turkish cave after being trapped for more than a week thought he was “probably not going to get out,” he said on NBC’s “TODAY” show Thursday.

“At first it was, ‘I have no idea what’s going on but it’s probably not life-threatening,’ to ‘this is life-threatening, I need help,'” Mark Dickey, 40, told hosts Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb of his mental state while trapped.