On the afternoon of August 4, 2018, a man participating in a tourist cave tour in the Abaliget Stalactite Cave became ill and his circulation collapsed as he made his way up the stairs leading to the Great Hall at the end of the built-up part of the cave.

Accidentally, as a visitor to the tour, one of the doctors of our rescue service started an immediate resuscitation together with the arrived National Ambulance Service however the man's life could not be saved.

The corpse was transported to the surface by external members of the BMSz present and arriving at the site, on the stretcher of the territorial unit.

We must emphasize that the Abaligeti Cave - like the other visitor friendly, pre-built, sometimes wheelchair accessible, visitable caves in Hungary - can be visited in complete safety in street clothes, without any training. Unfortunately, the issue that happened can occur anywhere, on the street, or even at home. 

BMSz expresses its condolences to the relatives of the deceased.

On 23 June 2018, 13 visitors disappeared in the Tham Luang Nang Non Cave in the Dai Nang Non region in the northern border zone of Thailand. The missing people are young between the ages of 11 and 25, a local youth football team and their coach. 

The total length of the cave is about 10 km, it has several entrances. The cave is a complex, active karst cave with a creek, a part of which intended for tourists was equipped with sidewalks, stairs and railings. 

The entrances were not closed, but information and danger signs were displayed. The main danger of the cave is that, unlike other karst areas, the possible floods here do not last for hours or days, but the flooding can persist throughout the rainy season. Getting the missing football team out of the cave was also prevented by the fact that some of the passages used to go inwards were submerged due to the heavy rains, making it impossible for the team to get out due to a lack of quailification and equipments

On October 4, 2017, at 16:45, the Hungarian Cave Rescue Service received an alert that a young man had suffered a knee injury in the Mátyás-hegyi cave (part of the Pál-völgyi cave system) in Budapest - the same cave where an accident had also occurred five days ago.

We immediately issued the alarm and then began marching to the scene with medical and rescue equipment.

The site of the accident is one of the very narrow passages of the cave, the so-called "Sandwich" squeeze.

Here, a member of a hiking group, David S. (a 22-year-old American citizen) sprained his knee while he crawled on all fours through the narrowest section. His injury was very painful, so he was unable to continue the tour.

On the evening of September 29, 2017, a group of cavers hiked in the Mátyás-hegyi Cave, which is part of the longest cave in the country, the Pálvölgyi Cave System in Budapest. Nearly half an hour's way from the entrance, (about 500 meters), in the middle section of the deep zone, between Nagytravi and Opera-Nagytravi they climbed down a narrow chimney, where they secured each other during the climb so that no one could fall.

At the end of the chimney, at about one and half meter from the bottom, a young lady was clinging to an upper catch and suffered a shoulder strain.

The tour guide - who is a trained cave tour and research leader - took action to alert the cave rescue service.