Josh Bratchley was found calmly waiting in an air pocket after spending 28 hours trapped underground in a flooded cave in the US.
A British diver who helped save 12 schoolboys trapped in a cave in Thailand has himself been rescued from a flooded tunnel in the US after more than a day underground.
Josh Bratchley had been exploring a cave in Jackson County, Tennessee, with a group of divers from the UK. He failed to return to the surface with the rest of a party after they emerged at around 3pm on Tuesday.Emergency services were alerted and expert divers from Arkansas and Florida were flown in and entered the 400ft cave system and successfully brought the diver to the surface at around 7pm on Wednesday.
Edd Sorenson, a cave specialist for the Chattanooga Hamilton County Rescue Service who rescued the Briton, said when he found the diver, he was waiting"as calm as could be" in an air pocket.
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