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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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R38 (ZR-2) airship crash: 1921 (24 August) River Humber, near Hull: 44: MV Derbyshire: 1980 (9 September) Bibby Line bulk carrier sank during Typhoon Orchid, south of Japan (by tonnage the largest UK-flagged ship loss) 43: Croydon typhoid outbreak of 1937: 1937 (October–December) Outbreak originating from a polluted chalk water well; 341 ...
A fire on Hurricane on 11 June 2023 resulting in the deaths of three UK nationals. The capsize of Sea Story on 25 November 2024 resulting in up to 18 fatalities/people missing, including two UK ...
This is to date the most deadly incident in British caving. [9] A memorial plaque is affixed to the cliff above the entrance. On the moors above is a memorial cairn. The plaque on the cairn reads: "Mossdale memorial cairn – over the place in the cave where the bodies were found". [10]
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]