Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: James Macdonald
Publication Date: September 27, 2025 - 09:30
These Vancouver Island caves give rescuers room to hone life-saving skills
September 27, 2025
A waterfall tumbles down the rock face near 10 or so cavers hunched deep within a cranny in Horne Lake Caves, one of Vancouver Island’s best-known cave systems.
As part of a rescue training workshop, the volunteer cavers are learning how to strap a person onto a backboard – a role played by a fellow volunteer – and how to manoeuvre and communicate in dark, tight and twisting passages.
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