The Cave Rescue Organisation (CRO) is a voluntary body based in the

caving Caving – also known as spelunking in the United States and Canada and potholing in the United Kingdom and Ireland – is the recreational pastime of exploring wild cave systems (as distinguished from show caves). In contrast, speleology ...

area of the

Yorkshire Dales The Yorkshire Dales is an upland area of the Pennines in the historic county of Yorkshire, England, most of it in the Yorkshire Dales National Park created in 1954. The Dales comprise river valleys and the hills rising from the Vale of York ...

in northern

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. Founded in 1935, it is the first

cave rescue 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 r ...

agency in the world. Although it is staffed by volunteers and funded by donations, it is integrated into the emergency services and will be called out if the police are notified that there has been a caving incident. CRO often doubles as local

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and frequently rescues

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which have become stuck in caves or on crags. In 1986 team member Dave Anderson was drowned in

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whilst attending an incident. CRO publishes an annual incident report.

References

External links

CRO website
Cave rescue organizations Organisations based in North Yorkshire Volunteer search and rescue in the United Kingdom Yorkshire Dales Organizations established in 1935 1935 establishments in the United Kingdom {{caving-stub

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