He has been rescued after spending 7 hours in an air chamber in the Cova de sa Gleda, in Manacor His rescuer has been the same one who in 2017 pulled out another diver, Xisco Gràcia, after two days in an air bubble The cave diver Miquel Perelló has been rescued in good condition after spending seven hours inside an air chamber in the Cova de sa Gleda, a complex network of flooded galleries in the Calas de Mallorca area, in Manacor. The Civil Guard, the Mallorca Fire Brigade, the National Police and the Balearic Federation of Speleology had mobilized to carry out a difficult rescue operation. A team of Civil Guard divers specialized in cave rescues traveled yesterday from Madrid to lead the rescue. When Miquel Perelló disappeared, he was accompanied by Xisco Gràcia, a diver who survived in 2017 after spending two days in one of these air bubbles. Precisely the diver who managed to get Perelló out was the same one who on that occasion pulled out Gràcia. The incident was known this Sunday at half past four in the afternoon. Perelló, Gràcia and a third cave diver were taking a tour inside sa Gleda, the largest underwater cave in Europe, when Perelló separated from his companions. The other two divers surfaced at half past four in the afternoon, as agreed, but Perelló stayed inside. He immediately sounded the alarm. The situation was very dangerous. Perelló had air in his cylinders until approximately five in the afternoon, but his companions hoped that he had been able to take refuge in one of the chambers that house air bubbles inside the cave. Outside, the rescue operation was activated. Several teams from the Special Group for Underwater Activities (GEAS) of the Civil Guard, and the Mallorca Fire Brigade, as well as crews from the National Police, were stationed at the entrance to the cave. A GEAS team specialized in rescues in submerged caves traveled from Madrid. A group of volunteer rescuers from the Balearic Speleology Federation also mobilized. The plan was to wait for the arrival of specialists from the Madrid Civil Guard, but Perelló’s colleagues knew of a chamber in which he could have taken refuge. At eight o’clock at night, two of them were authorized to dive to that point and check if he was there. Fortunately it was. At eleven o’clock at night they went outside with Perelló, 50 years old. The President of the Government, Francina Armengol, has expressed her satisfaction that “everything has ended well” and has celebrated the “magnificent work” of the operation, with Firefighters, Civil Guard, National Police, Civil Protection, SAMU, Maritime Rescue and Emergencies 112 The president of the Consell, Catalina Cladera, has also thanked the “fantastic” work of the troops.