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One of the largest caves systems in Europe.<\/strong> The same Saturday special diving corps from the Spanish police and navy flew all the way to Mallorca to join the rescue operation. On Sunday\u00a0the media was giving for granted that Francisco was dead. His family received psychological help. Nobody \u00a0believed that Francisco could survive in a cave for so long without air. Different strategies were taken such punching out the ceiling of the cave but without any success. After 48 the authorities were talking about \u201cbody recovery\u201d.<\/p>\n The rescue operation lasted 60 hours. More than 70 people were involved in the search of Francisco\u00a0and\u00a0more than 4 different special corps.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Almost 60 hours since everything started,\u00a0one of the police rescue corps found Francisco in another domo. This domo was further inside the cave. Francisco was fine and even though some dehydration problems he made it all the way out of the cave by himself.\u00a0Francisco said that he totally lost the sense of time. His only worry while alone in the domo\u00a0was the believe that his buddies didn\u2019t made it out the cave. He stated that the waiting time was a psychological \u00a0torture but now, he feels totally recovered and ready to explore \u201cSa Piqueta\u201d again.<\/p>\n Amazing survival story worth of a Hollywood movie with its own happy ending.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”4.0.9″][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Saturday 15th of April. \u201cSa Piqueta\u201d, Mallorca (Spain). One of the largest caves systems in Europe.That Saturday, as usual, Francisco Gr\u00e0cia, \u00a0was surveying\u00a0the cave. Suddenly Francisco realised that he had not enough air to reach the exit. He decided to wait in one of the \u201cdomos\u201d (an air cavity inside the cave) while the rest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":3273,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":" Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!<\/p>","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-posts","category-all-about-diving"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
That Saturday, as usual, Francisco Gr\u00e0cia, \u00a0was surveying\u00a0the cave. Suddenly Francisco realised that he had not enough air to reach the exit. He decided to wait in one of the \u201cdomos\u201d (an air cavity inside the cave) while the rest of the group was going for help.\u00a0When the group of divers came back with air supply they didn\u2019t find Francisco where they left him. At this point the alarm had been given already. Some Spanish rescue teams were preparing the search and recovery strategies.<\/p>\n