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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 ...
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]
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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Estimate for UK deaths only 531+ 1623–24 famine: 1623–1624: East Lancashire badly affected; [77] said to be the last peace-time famine in England. 531 [78] 1953 North Sea storm and flood: 1953 (31 Jan – 1 Feb) Included the ferry MV Princess Victoria: 520: HMS Namur: 1749 (14 April) Wrecked in a storm near Fort St. David, India 500: HMS ...
A major rescue attempt was made, but the men were discovered to have perished in the flood. It remains the worst caving disaster in the UK. [6] Their remains were retrieved and buried further in the system four years later. [7] Eight amateur cavers were found alive by divers after two days trapped in a Kentucky cave after flooding in 1983. [8] [9]