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 on 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."

Morrisey said Wednesday night on the social media site X that an additional pumping unit was added but that water levels inside the mine "have yet to reach the point where entry is possible."

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