our next story takes us to flynn's lake tennessee where a cave diver has gone missing the missing
diver became separated from his friends after losing the guideline they followed during a
dive the previous day this search and rescue was captured on a helicopter cam a cell phone cam and
an underwater helmet cam the man we see descending into the earth is ed sorensen a world renowned
cave diver known for his rescues of loss or trapped divers ed follows the yellow navigational
line that guides the divers through the dark narrow spaces that make up the underwater cave
he explores every possible space within the 400-foot cave system looking for the trap diver
the diver's friends have made several attempts to find him and ed sorensen is their last hope
after searching for over an hour ed notices a shimmer on the water's surface
indicating an air pocket
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in order to exit safely the two men now need to
follow the white guideline that ed put in place as he searched the cave
outside of the cave local authorities and the lost diver's friends
are anxiously waiting for ed to return
when all hope seemed lost this hero was able to literally find the light at the end of
the tunnel or the end of the cave in this case joining me now that hero ed sorensen
thank you for joining us so let's start at the beginning tell me about the call you got that day
it was about 2 30 in the morning when the call came in that josh was missing in the cave and
i think they did eight dives over 11 hours and couldn't find him and would i be willing to come
and look for him now you're very experienced in these rescues when you get the call that 11 hours
has passed what's your reaction i was pretty much assured that i was going to do a body recovery so
you get into the water now take us through your search until you found it a couple of the divers
that were looking for him said the first part of the line we think is intact but when you
get in a ways we may have broken the line and now i'm exploring a cave i've never been in in
very very little visibility so i just kind of hugged one wall
and then i saw his old line in a tangled up mask so i searched up in the ceiling because
usually a body will flow uh when they're out of gas and then i see this shimmering
of what looks to be an air pocket i head up in there and then you can see from the video
i'm looking right at them and he's looking right at me so what's that moment like when
you come up and you see him actually alive well i don't know who was more surprised i think it was
more me than him i never get emotional on these things but that was that was an incredible moment
and it's just remarkable to watch you pull this man out safely really appreciate you coming on
here and sharing your incredible story thanks for having me thanks for being a fan of rescue cam
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