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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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Neil Moss (caver), victim of a famous caving accident in Derbyshire, England; Neil Moss (footballer), footballer for AFC Bournemouth This page was last edited on 29 ...
The caving trip was stated as an "official military expedition to support adventurous training." [ 1 ] While six of the men were in the Alpazat caverns on an expedition expected to take 36 hours, [ 4 ] a flash flood blocked their exit, causing them to shelter in a pre-fabricated emergency camp in a drier part of the cave. [ 3 ]
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]
The accident was caused by fracture of the brake rod, when a slowly growing fatigue crack reached a critical size, and the brake rod parted. Following a thorough investigation, it was found that metal fatigue failure occurred in the braking mechanism used to slow down the cage as it descended.