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.

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.    

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.

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.

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.

Saturday/Sunday 22/23 October 2016 The team were called out at 4:30pm to reports of a caver (m) who had been hit by a falling rock whilst climbing the 80m deep Leviathan pitch in JH, near Castleton. He had suffered head injuries but impressively he was able to complete the climb to the top of the pitch under his own steam. His companion continued to the surface to call DCRO. When the team arrived first aid was administered, the casualty was wrapped against the cold and put in a stretcher. The team then lowered him down the remaining pitches and through boulder constrictions. Here a further team of twenty volunteers supported by Ambulance Service Hazardous Area Response Team paramedics were waiting to take him out to the surface along over a kilometre of partly flooded cave and mine passages. The surface was reached after an 8 hour rescue involving over 50 cavers.

Friday 23 September 2016 DCRO was mobilised to go to the aid of an injured sheep trapped under a boulder. The team were stood down after the animal was reported dead.

Wednesday 31 August 2016 One member of a party of two cavers returning from a Round Trip was too tired to be able to climb Garlands Pot and her companion was unable to offer sufficient help to get her up without further assistance. DCRO turned out and a small team successfully hauled her up the pitch and escorted her to the surface. She was unharmed but very tired and cold.

Saturday/Sunday 6-7 August 2016 A party of four experienced cavers were reported overdue on a trip to Calcite Aven via JH. A DCRO team was called out and contact was quickly made with the party who reached the foot of the entrance shaft shortly after DCRO members began arriving on site. The party were tired but unharmed and the team stood by until they were all safely on the surface.

Wednesday 3 March 2016 Search for an 83 year old man missing from home in Youlgreave. His body was found by a member of the public in the river in Bradford Dale.