Caving insurance - club opinion/policy ?

[nearlywhite]

We once had a guy turn up to SUSS who seemed to be experienced. He came straight on a trip down Notts pot with us. Alarm bells should have rung when all his SRT kit was new. He said he had just replaced it all after being stolen. He got stuck at the head of the last pitch on the way up, with 4 of us below him. He was overweight, knackered and didn't know what he was doing. Managed to squeeze past eventually and rescue him then talk him through exiting the cave. Turned out he had just read lots of books but never actually done SRT. We insisted that everyone attend one of our weekly indoor SRT training sessions to be vetted before going on underground SRT trips after that...

Somethings never change Mark! We had exactly the same incident in 2012, except it was in county! A fresher guided them off the ropes (under very careful supervision I hasten to add).

Don't driving examiners get tested very thoroughly?

Quis certificat ipsos certificatorii?

 

[cavemanmike]

don't won't to throw a spanner in the works but are'nt we going a bit offffff topic.(mod)

 

[bograt]

OFFS, The folks who are likely to be retrieving the bodies are most likely to be be CRO volunteers so what the hell!!.

 

[cap n chris]

As I recollect, one of the incidents I referred to was not "organised by the club, for the club members, and is advertised as such" but was just a small group of people including some club members meeting up, deciding to do a trip and using club equipment.

Presumably this means that any trip involving use of a club ladder must also stipulate mandatory use of a safety line if it is not to fall into the gross negligence category, and unilateral failure to use a safety line would void the insurance of the cavers on the trip?

1:04 onwards. Novices.

Are the leaders covered by BCA insurance?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sm2PUea8Sso&feature=share