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The cave system, with its marble formations, lies beneath the Scandinavian Mountains. [4] [5] It was formed by the flow of the river Plura across porous limestone. [3] Sediments, boulders and sands in the cave appear to be periglacial or subglacial in origin. [11] A similar diveable cave nearby is Litjåga. Of some 200 caves in Rana, however ...
The operation became well known to the general public for the large rescue effort and was called a "chapter of alpine rescue history", [6] taking eleven days by more than 700 members of a multinational group of cave rescuers, consisting of people from Italy, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Croatia and others. In August 2015 the interior ministry ...
The 1973 Mount Gambier cave diving accident was a scuba diving incident on 28 May 1973 at a flooded sinkhole known as "The Shaft" near Mount Gambier in South Australia.The incident claimed the lives of four recreational scuba divers: siblings Stephen and Christine M. Millott, Gordon G. Roberts, and John H. Bockerman. [1]
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.
Most international cave rescue units are listed with contacts for use in the event of a cave incident. The world's first cave rescue team, the Cave Rescue Organisation (CRO), was founded in 1935 in Yorkshire, United Kingdom. Like all UK cave rescue groups, it is composed of volunteer cavers and funded entirely by donations. [1]
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Subhash, who had wanted to go into the 100-foot deep cave, tripped and fell inside. [2] His friend Abhilash John was the first to notice his fall and informed the rest of the friend group. [ 4 ] When the friend group made contact with locals they were advised to leave to avoid trouble. [ 4 ]