the team were alerted to a potential missing caver in Peak Cavern. The suspected missing caver had decided to head out early while his friends carried on with their trip to Moss Chamber. Upon the group’s exit they realised he had not signed out. DCRO volunteers set about searching the main routes around the area he had last been seen with multiple search team and quickly located the missing caver who had taken a wrong turn.

The team were contacted by Edale Mountain Rescue Team to assist with a sheep that had managed to ‘escape’ into a small fenced enclosure around a small collapsed mine shaft. A vehicle with equipment was deployed to meet team members local to the area but when it arrived the sheep had already been returned to the surface by the team members on site along side the Farmer, using Edales’ equipment and the fence had already been repaired. efficient indeed.

Shortly before 12 pm the team were tasked, along side WMAS with assisting a member of the public who had collapsed while starting to exit Blue John Cavern show cave. Our team members were 1st on scene including a team doctor to carry out initial treatment and rig the steep stairway ready for extraction with paramedics arriving soon after. the casualty was evacuated to the waiting ambulance for further treatment in hospital and the team stood down at 15:45. We also borrowed a Buxton MRT member for this shout.

The team were called around 9:30 on the 8th of April, 2023, to reports of ‘Shouts for Help’ around an area of old mine shafts near Tideswell. The shouts were reported to the police by a local walking group, one of our controllers, who was nearby went to investigate, finding no apparent sign of persons in distress and another witness near the scene reporting that they thought it was some calling a dog the shout incident was passed back to the police for a possible surface search by Mountain Rescue A false call with good intent