Chattanooga/Hamilton County Cave Rescue Team transporting an injured caver with a dislocated ankle
Cave rescue is a highly specialized field of wilderness rescue in which injured, trapped or lost cave explorers are medically treated and extracted from various cave environments.
Cave rescue borrows elements from firefighting, confined space rescue, rope rescue and mountaineering techniques but has also developed its own special techniques and skills for performing work in conditions that are almost always difficult and demanding. Since cave accidents, on an absolute scale, are a very limited form of incident, and cave rescue is a very specialized skill, normal emergency staff are rarely employed in the underground elements of the rescue. Instead, this is usually undertaken by other experienced cavers who undergo regular training through their organizations and are called up at need.
Cave rescues are slow, deliberate operations that require both a high level of organized teamwork and good communication. The extremes of the cave environment (air temperature, water, vertical depth) dictate every aspect of a cave rescue. Therefore, the rescuers must adapt skills and techniques that are as dynamic as the environment they must operate in.
and July 2018, a junior association football team was rescued from Tham Luang Nang Non, a cave system in Chiang Rai province, northern Thailand. Twelve...
Caverescue is a highly specialized field of wilderness rescue in which injured, trapped or lost cave explorers are medically treated and extracted from...
Thai CaveRescue (Thai: ถ้ำหลวง: ภารกิจแห่งความหวัง) is a 6-part limited series produced by Netflix, directed by Kevin Tancharoen and Nattawut Poonpiriya...
The Alpazat caverescue occurred in March 2004 after six British soldiers became trapped in the Alpazat caverns in Puebla, Mexico near Cuetzalan. All...
A rescue occurred at Riesending cave between 8–19 June 2014, in Bavaria, Germany, after a speleologist who had been exploring the cave in a group of three...
1961) is a British civilian cave diver who specialises in rescues through the CaveRescue Organisation and the British CaveRescue Council. He has been called...
techniques, and 'caver' is for those who are. This sentiment is exemplified by bumper stickers and T-shirts displayed by some cavers: "Caversrescue spelunkers"...
fame he gained from the rescue efforts and his death resulted in him being memorialized on his tombstone as the "Greatest Cave Explorer Ever Known". William...
Region (Chile) where 33 miners were rescued Tham Luang caverescue, where 12 children and a coach were rescued from a cave in Thailand in 2018 Kathy Fiscus...
involvement in the rescue effort. Soon after the rescue, Vernon Unsworth, a British recreational caver who had been exploring the cave for the previous...
search and rescue operations specifically in rugged and mountainous terrain. Caverescue is a highly specialised form of rescue for rescuing injured, trapped...
area. Mountain and CaveRescue Team of China CaveRescue of China (CRC) Mountain and CaveRescue of GuangXi Mountain and CaveRescue of China（MCRC） Malaysian...
British cave diver who undertakes caverescues through the CaveRescue Organisation, South and Mid Wales CaveRescue, and the British Caving Association...
[citation needed] Before 2009, this cave had four separate rescues of cavers and Boy Scouts, who got stuck inside the cave's tight twists, turns, and crawls...
The CaveRescue Organisation (CRO) is a voluntary body based in the caving area of the Yorkshire Dales in northern England. Founded in 1935, it is the...
internationally for caverescues and recoveries. Before modern caving developed, John Beaumont wrote detailed descriptions of some Mendip caves in 1681, and...
archaeology, cave paintings are a type of parietal art (which category also includes petroglyphs, or engravings), found on the wall or ceilings of caves. The...
(from Ancient Greek σπήλαιον (spḗlaion) 'cave', and -λογία (-logía) 'study of') is the scientific study of caves and other karst features, as well as their...
A cave or cavern is a natural void in the ground, specifically a space large enough for a human to enter. Caves often form by the weathering of rock and...
result of the rescue. The cave is also known as Tham Luang (Thai: ถ้ำหลวง, lit. 'great cave'), Tham Nam Cham (Thai: ถ้ำน้ำจำ, lit. 'Nam Cham cave'), and Tham...
the search for and recovery of divers or, as in the 2018 Thai caverescue, other cave users. The equipment used varies depending on the circumstances...
(spḗlaion) 'cave', and θέμα (théma) 'deposit') is a geological formation by mineral deposits that accumulate over time in natural caves. Speleothems...
Years of Exploration. Priddy: Wessex Cave Club. pp. 44–46. ISBN 9780950043357. "Dramatic rescue bid to save young caver". Wells Journal. 23 January 1959....
caves: caves are rare across most of the world; most caves are dark, cold, and damp; and other cave inhabitants, such as bears and cave bears, cave lions...
A pit cave, shaft cave or vertical cave—or often simply called a pit (in the US) and pothole or pot (in the UK); jama in Slavic languages scientific and...
locations. Sinkholes that capture drainage can hold it in large limestone caves. These caves may drain into tributaries of larger rivers. The formation of sinkholes...
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