London: British diver Josh Bratchley, who helped in the rescue of a youth soccer team from a Thai cave last year, has in turn been rescued from a flooded cave in the US.

Diver Josh Bratchley.

Josh Bratchley failed to return to the surface with the rest of a party after they emerged from a cave in Jackson County, Tennessee, at around 3pm local time on Tuesday.

After several attempts to find him themselves, his fellow divers alerted emergency services at around 1am local time on Wednesday.

Expert divers were flown in from Arkansas and Florida and a rescue dive began at around 6pm on Wednesday evening.