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Following a caver being hit by rockfall deep in one of europes largest cave systems on june 8th, the rescue team are now, 10 days later, just hours away from getting him out. What a herculean rescue operation!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-27900710

Bloody good effort, heres hoping the casualty makes a good recovery!

P.s. im sure our mountain/cave rescue guys would be just as good if a similar event happened here

In reply to balmybaldwin:

The following organisations are involved in cave rescue in the UK. Apologies if I have missed anybody.

The representative body is the British Cave Rescue Council.
http://www.caverescue.org.uk/

Irish Cave Rescue Organisation
Scottish Cave Rescue Organisation http://www.scro.org.uk/
Cave Rescue Organisation (North Yorkshire)
Cornwall Search and Rescue Team
Cumbria Ore Mines Rescue Unit
Derbyshire Cave Rescue Organisation
Devon Cave Rescue Organisation
Gloucestershire Cave Rescue Group
Mendip Cave Rescue
Midlands Cave Rescue Organisation
North Wales Cave Rescue Organisation
South East Cave Rescue Organisation
South and Mid Wales Cave Rescue Team
Swaledale Mountain Rescue Team
Upper Wharfedale Fell Rescue Association


Caving skills also exist in some MRT that are not mentioned here.

In reply to Jim Fraser:

And they've got him out now: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-27922781

brilliant effort

In reply to balmybaldwin:

fantastic- good for them

In reply to balmybaldwin:

It was a joint effort of rescue organisations of many countries, amongst them Austria, Italy and Croatia.
Mike

In reply to balmybaldwin:

While a lot of the work outside the cave and in the vertical sections was prepared by local mountain rescue teams, getting the guy out through the narrow parts of the cave involved specialized rescue teams from Italy, Switzerland, Slovenia, Austria,...

To get an impression of why they needed so many teams, have a look at that video of one of the Italian teams:

http://www.sueddeutsche.de/panorama/neue-bilder-von-der-hoehlenrettung-1.20...

CB

In reply to miho:

Yes, I realise that my title isn't ideal.

heard on the bbc they may now seal the caves to prevent this happening again

In reply to balmybaldwin:

Well that was a better outcome than an easier rescue in Ayrshire.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-25153177

Well done to the rescuers in this particular incident.