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Floyd Collins. William Floyd Collins (July 20, 1887 [a] – c. February 13, 1925) was an American cave explorer, principally in a region of Kentucky that houses hundreds of miles of interconnected caves, today a part of Mammoth Cave National Park, the longest known cave system in the world. During the early 20th century, in an era known as the ...
Cave rescue. Chattanooga / Hamilton County Cave Rescue Team transporting an injured caver with a dislocated ankle. Cave rescue is a highly specialized field of wilderness rescue in which injured, trapped or lost cave explorers are medically treated and extracted from various cave environments. Cave rescue borrows elements from firefighting ...
Jim Eyre (second left) outside County Pot in 1955 during the early exploration of Ease Gill Caverns. Jim Eyre (1925–2008) was a British caver, known for being one of the first European cavers to explore the caves of Asia. [1] In 1946 in Lancaster, Eyre helped to found the Red Rose Cave and Pot Hole Club, where he was prominent in the earliest ...
A rescue occurred at Riesending cave between 8–19 June 2014, in Bavaria, Germany, after a speleologist who had been exploring the cave in a group of three suffered a traumatic brain injury as a result of a rockfall. It became one of the largest cave rescues in history, involving more than 700 people for 11 days and an estimated cost of close ...
In June and July 2018, a junior association football team was rescued from Tham Luang Nang Non, a cave system in Chiang Rai province, northern Thailand. Twelve members of the team, aged 11 to 16, and their 25-year-old assistant coach entered the cave on 23 June after a practice session. Shortly after they entered, heavy rainfall began and ...
Sheck Exley. Sheck Exley (April 1, 1949 – April 6, 1994) was an American cave diver. He is widely regarded as one of the pioneers of cave diving, [1][2] and he wrote two major books on the subject: Basic Cave Diving: A Blueprint for Survival [3] and Caverns Measureless to Man. [4] On February 6, 1974, Exley became the first chairman of the ...
Arctomys Cave is the site of Canada's most extensive cave rescue attempt. On October 17, 1991, Rick Blak, an experienced caver and park ranger at Mount Robson Provincial Park, was struck and killed by a falling boulder deep in the cave. [5] 44 people were involved in the complex recovery of his body. [5]
Was the first mine rescue to rescue miners using bore holes. 2006 Copiapó mining accident – resulted in two deaths. Shandong Qixia Gold Mine Explosion Accident – 22 Elecab miners were trapped and rescued in 2021. Floyd Collins – a cave explorer who died after 14 days in 1925. The accident scene was a national media frenzy.