Foto: Gina Hindseth Whilst the review of the Adventure Tourism industry is put on a back burner, until the busy summer season has passed its peak, a river rafting company has been prosecuted in connection with the death of Norwegian trainee guide Tor Prestmo, age 24. This appeared on Voxy on 23 December 2009 Wellington,…
The American tourist who was found face down in the water whilst swimming with dolphins in Marlborough Sound on Tuesday has been named as 27 year old Emily May Harper from Denver, Colorado. Please see this article for further details. Initial postmortem results suggest that she did not die from drowning and her boyfriend told…
from The Birmingham Mail, UK. 9 Sept 09 “The father of a young Midland tourist who died during a river adventure trip in New Zealand has pleaded with the country’s prime minister to make extreme sports safer. Law graduate Emily Jordan, from Worcestershire, drowned on a “river boarding” excursion after guides failed to take safety…
27 August – By Frank Marvin in ‘Scene.co.nz‘ “A Queenstown whitewater expert is calling on maritime cops to regulate riverboarding.Stefan Crawford, 41, was speaking after last week’s harrowing trial of Mad Dog River Boarding and owner Brad McLeod after the Kawarau River death of English tourist Emily Jordan in April, 2008. Crawford says Maritime New…
For more about the trial and events following it see: Emily Jordan Chris Jordan, father of Emily Jordan who drowned in a River Boarding ‘accident’ in New Zealand in April 2008 on Monday called for legislation to be introduced to govern river boarding in the country: (RadioNZ) “Mr Jordan believes his daughter died because the…
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