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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.
List of UK caving fatalities This page was last edited on 16 April 2020, at 19:29 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
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.
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[7] [8] This is to date the most deadly incident in British caving. [9] A memorial plaque is affixed to the cliff above the entrance. On the moors above is a memorial cairn. The plaque on the cairn reads: "Mossdale memorial cairn – over the place in the cave where the bodies were found". [10]
The Cave Research Group of Great Britain separated from BSA in 1948. [8] Jim Eyre was one of the first European cavers to explore the caves of Asia. 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 ...
British submarine accidents (1 C, 43 P) Pages in category "Maritime incidents in the United Kingdom" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.
On November 24, 2009, 26-year-old John Edward Jones became stuck and died in the cave after being trapped inside for 27–28 hours. [8] [9]Jones and three others had left their party in search of "The Birth Canal", a tight but navigable passageway with a turnaround at the end.