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Porth yr Ogof – the scene of 11 fatalities. The following is a list of the 137 identified recorded fatalities associated with recreational caving in the UK. The main causes of death have been drowning when cave diving, drowning as the result of flooding or negotiating deep water, injuries incurred from falling from a height, and injuries incurred as the result of rock falls.
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Oscar Hackett Neil Moss (28 July 1938 [1] – 23 March 1959) was a British student who died in a caving accident. A twenty-year-old undergraduate studying philosophy at Balliol College, Oxford, Moss became jammed underground, 1,000 feet (300 m) from the entrance, [2] after descending a narrow unexplored shaft in Peak Cavern, a famous cave system in Castleton in Derbyshire, on 22 March 1959.
A major rescue attempt was made, but the men were discovered to have perished in the flood. It remains the worst caving disaster in the UK. [6] Their remains were retrieved and buried further in the system four years later. [7] Eight amateur cavers were found alive by divers after two days trapped in a Kentucky cave after flooding in 1983. [8] [9]
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Neil Moss (caver), victim of a famous caving accident in Derbyshire, England Neil Moss (footballer) , footballer for AFC Bournemouth Topics referred to by the same term
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Interest in caving grew rapidly in the 1950s and 60s. Neil Moss was the victim of a famous caving accident after descending a narrow unexplored shaft in Peak Cavern in Derbyshire 1959. This period saw the formation of more clubs, regional councils to manage cave access, and the National Association of Caving in 1968.