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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.
"Being upside down, your body has to pump the blood out of the brain all the time," Doug Murdock, the trauma physician on site, told The Salt Lake Tribune in 2010. "Your body isn't set up to do ...
The cave's popularity had caused excessive smoothing of the rock inside the cave to the point it was predicted a fatality would occur in one of the cave's more prominent features, a 45-degree room called "The Big Slide". A gate was installed on May 24, 2006, and the cave was temporarily closed. In early 2009, proper management was established ...
John makes a decision to split up and explore an un-mapped route. As he goes deeper into the cave, he gets stuck in a small passageway. As he tries to go back and free himself, he falls into an even smaller hole and passes out. John wakes up upside down in an 18-inch wide hole and realizes he is completely stuck.
One person dead and 11 injured after tour boat capsizes in New York cave. Some passengers walked to safety, officials say. Monday 12 June 2023 20:42, Andrea Blanco. According to Lockport Fire ...
Isak Andic, the billionaire founder of high street fashion chain Mango, died in an accident on Saturday while exploring caves near Barcelona. Spanish media reported the 71-year-old fell down a ...
Porth yr Ogof – the scene of 11 fatalities. The following is a list of the 138 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.
Dubbed the “Pinnacle Man,” the Berks County Coroner’s Office revealed his identity as 27-year-old Nicolas Paul Grubb from Fort Washington, Pennsylvania at a news conference.