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Oxford University Cave Club Expedition Rescue Guide - Detailed paper on expeditionary styles of cave rescue.
Cave-Rescue.net - Links to european cave rescue organisations and groups.
Irish Cave Rescue Organisation - The ICRO undertakes cave rescue throughout Ireland. Contacts, organisation, callouts and equipment information.
North Wales Cave Rescue Organisation - Responsible for rescue incidents in the mines and caves of North Wales.
Cave Search and Rescue - Information and guidelines on conducting cave rescues from the New Zealand Speleological Society.
B C Cave Rescue - Rescue and training service of organized caving in British Columbia, Canada.
Huntsville Cave Rescue Unit - Organisation based in Huntsville, Alabama, USA specializing in cave, cliff, high-angle and rough terrain search and rescue operations.
The Self Rescue Group Reading Room - Articles on cave safety, accidents, injuries and self rescue techniques.
SSJ Cave Rescue Committee - Rescue organisation of the Speleological Society of Japan.
San Bernardino Cave Rescue Team - Information on this California, USA based organisation.

Technical rescue - Technical rescue refers to those aspects of saving life or property that employ the use of tools and skills that exceed those normally reserved for fire fighting, medical emergency, and rescue. These disciplines include rope rescue, swiftwater rescue, dive rescue, confined space rescue, snow and ice rescue, cave rescue, trench/excavation rescue, and building collapse rescue, among others.
Cave rescue - Cave Rescue is a highly specialized field of wilderness rescue in which injured, trapped or lost caving explorers are medically treated and extracted from various cave environments.
Cave Rescue Organisation - The Cave Rescue Organisation is based in the caving area of Yorkshire Dales and was founded in 1935. 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 ...
Bulmer Cavern - Bulmer Cavern is New Zealand's longest cave system, running for over 50 km kilometres through Mount Owen in the Nelson region of the northwest South Island.Caving in New Zealand (from Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand) The cave was the location of a major cave rescue effort in 1998, when it took 80 cavers several days to extract another caver who had fallen and broken his jaw deep in the cavern.