A caving instructor came across a group at the foot of Garlands Pot who had lowered themselves down the pitch, but had no safe means of re-ascending. Advising the group to wait for assistance, the instructor left the cave and called the DCRO Duty Controller, who instigated a team callout. When DCRO members arrived, however, the group had managed to climb out of the pitch and had all exited from the cave.
392: Providence Pot near Kettlewell, Yorkshire Dales
Upper Warfedale Fell Rescue Association were called just after 9PM after 5 cavers were reported overdue. Several team members who were caving in the area at the time assisted UWFRA, searching the cave until the over due party was located safe but cold. They were escorted back to safety after spending 26 hours underground.
391: Buxton – Animal Rescue
The team were called out to assist in an animal rescue in the Buxton area
390: Knotlow Mine, Monyash
Saturday 2 September 2017 Called to Knotlow Mine to assist a caver from a University caving club who was reported too tired to exit from Waterfall Chamber.
389: Castleton
Friday 11 August 2017 DCRO were called to assist Buxton and Edale MRTs who were searching for a suicidal male. A small but highly motivated team of well-equipped and experienced voluntary cave rescuers checked various mine and cave entrances in the Castleton area for signs of entry. The potential casualty was subsequently found in Sheffield alive and well.
388: MASSON CAVERN, MATLOCK BATH
Friday 2 June 2017 The police called DCRO to Masson Cavern show cave where a pregnant tourist had slipped and hurt her ankle. The woman was treated and evacuated in a stretcher by members of DCRO and an Ambulance Service Hazardous Area Response Team.
387: MINESHAFT NEAR ELTON
Wednesday 31 May 2017 DCRO were asked by the police to investigate a 50 metre deep shaft down which it was suspected a cow had fallen. A small team attended and prepared the shaft for a descent. A gas monitor was first lowered down the shaft and it recorded low oxygen levels and also concentrations of carbon monoxide. Consequently it was deemed that a descent would be too hazardous. Blood on the rope that had been used to lower the monitor strongly indicated that the cow had indeed fallen down the shaft and due to its depth it was concluded that the fall must have been fatal.
386: PEAK CAVERN, CASTLETON
Saturday 29 April 2017 A novice caver on a trip in the Main Streamway downstream of Surprise View dislocated his shoulder negotiating a constriction beneath a boulder. A team of about thirty were involved in attending and treating the injured man and then assisting him out to the surface in an operation which took five hours.
385: PEAK CAVERN, CASTLETON
Saturday 22 April 2017 A party on a through trip from JH (James Hall Mine) to Peak Cavern were reported overdue. The team were activated but the overdue party surfaced safely while the team was assembling.
384: JUG HOLES, MATLOCK
Saturday/Sunday 15/16 April 2017 Three cavers, two men and a woman from Matlock and Huddersfield, had gone underground about 10:30am and the police were contacted when they had not resurfaced by late afternoon. Two of the overdue party, a 70 year old man and a 26 year old woman were found quite quickly and were escorted safely from the cave unharmed. They had lost contact with the third member of the party, a very experienced local caver in his sixties, at about 11:30am when he had left them to explore another part of the system. Jugholes is a very complex maze of passages on more than one level and it was not until 3:00am on Sunday morning that he was found safe but hungry and conducted out to the surface. A search of the area around the cave entrance had also been carried out by team members during the night aided by a mountain rescue search dog in case the missing man had surfaced and become lost on the hillside in the dark.