MEDIA BRIEFING NOTE – 2 July 2018 Update on the cave search and rescue operation in Tham Luang Nang Non Cave, Thailand This supplementary media briefing follows on from one circulated by BCRC on 28 June 2018 (luang-nang-non-cave-rescue-thailand). It reports … Continued
MEDIA BRIEFING NOTE – 28 June 2018 British cave rescue diver involvement in the Luang Nang Non, cave rescue incident, Thailand This media briefing has been written to provide context and some additional technical information to explain the recent involvement … Continued
The Dales caving book “Adventures Underground” written by Dave Haigh and John Cordingley (published by Wild Places) has proved very popular, softback copies are still available, but the limited edition hardback sold out really quickly. When writing the book the … Continued
BCRC Training Coordinator’s News November 2017 – Jim Davis December 2016 UKSAR Training Applications: 4 applications were submitted: Upper Wharfedale Fell Rescue Association – UWFRA: Blue light driving training. Fred Easyport Training defibrilltor. CPR training manikin, Laerdal Resusci-Annie QCPR full … Continued
Children & Young people from Four Charities: Well Child Child Bereavement UK Place 2 B Centrepoint Came together on June 24th 2017 for the Mountain Rescue England & Wales / British Cave Rescue Council Princes’ Charities Forum Event. A day … Continued
Bill Whitehouse, former secretary and chair of Derbyshire Cave Rescue Organisation, and Vice-chair of BCRC has been awarded an MBE for services to Cave and Mountain Rescue in the 2017 Queen’s Birthday Honours list. Bill was involved in the formation … Continued
Thank you to all the team members who attended the recent Larkin Frame Training sessions, the hosting teams DCRO at Buxton and GCRG at Cinderford and also to Bill Batson and Paul Witheridge from Lyon for their delivery. This course … Continued
The Nicola 3 radios have now been issued to all teams. A BIG thank you to everyone involved in the role-out. We are now entering the “testing” phase and look forward to seeing how they function in practice with the … Continued