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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.
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The following list of disasters in Great Britain and Ireland is a list of major disasters (excluding acts of war [a]) which relate to the United Kingdom, Ireland or the Isle of Man, or to the states that preceded them, or that involved their citizens, in a definable incident or accident such as a shipwreck, where the loss of life was forty or more.
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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H. Mike Hailwood; Harold Hall (cricketer) Leonard Hall (socialist) Jack Hargreaves (speedway rider) David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech; George Harper (British Army officer)
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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]