– the scene of 11 fatalities|thumb The following is a list of the 138 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. In ten cases the bodies have not been recovered. The worst incident in UK caving history was the
Mossdale Caverns incident in 1967 when six cavers drowned following an unexpected
cloudburst. There have been three incidents when three people have died. The first was when three cavers drowned in Langstroth Pot in 1976 when
free-diving short sections of underwater passage as the result of the air in an air bell becoming foul. Three cavers were killed by a rock fall in
Ease Gill Caverns in 1988, and three cavers drowned in the
Marble Arch system in 1995.
Porth yr Ogof, in
South Wales, accounts for eleven fatalities, nine of which were the result of people drowning when negotiating the exit pool. Ease Gill Caverns and its associated entrances account for ten deaths;
Alum Pot and its associated entrances account for eight; and Mossdale Caverns accounts for six, all from the 1967 incident. The only case of a caver dying in the UK as the result of becoming stuck was
Neil Moss in
Peak Cavern in 1959. The cause of death was foul air building up around him. ==Breakdown of fatalities by cause and area==