Crews desperately continued removing massive amounts of water in an effort to locate a trapped worker inside a flooded coal mine in West Virginia as the work entered a fifth day Wednesday.

Gov. Patrick Morrisey said the efforts by crews about three-fourths of a mile into the Rolling Thunder Mine remained a rescue operation. Machines were pumping out water at a rate of 6,000 gallons (22,712 liters) per minute, he said. That's enough to fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool in under two hours.

“I think people are doing everything imaginable,” Morrisey said. "There’s no quit in anyone here.”

Old mine wall collapsed

A mining crew hit an unknown pocket of water Saturday about three-quarters of a mile into the mine near Belva, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) east of the state capital of Charles

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