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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.
The accident, in which 27 people including a 7-year-old girl died, is the worst on record involving migrants in the narrow seaway separating France and Britain. Two survivors were recovered from ...
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In 2021 the cave was the site of the next longest cave rescue undertaken in the UK, after George Linnane, a 38-year-old experienced caver, fell 8 m (26 ft) [7] and sustained multiple injuries on 6 November, 500 m (1,600 ft) from the lower Cwm Dŵr entrance. Almost 250 people were involved in the rescue, which was organised by the South and Mid ...
Realising immediately that the six cavers who remained inside the cave system were in danger, she ran 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) across the moor to raise the alarm. [3] Cave rescue teams arrived at the scene, but the high water levels prevented access to the cave. The waters of Mossdale Beck had to be diverted away from the cave entrance by digging ...
Cave divers Richard Stanton and Jason Mallinson from the Cave Rescue Organisation assisted the soldiers one at a time as they exited the cave. [2] Sims recounted, "I remember feeling overjoyed when [Stanton] surfaced and I saw his face. It was a great relief." The rescue consisted of traversing the 300 m (980 ft) flooded passageway to exit the ...