On the day that the trial of Mad Dog river boarding was so very neatly wrapped up another trial started into the circumstances surrounding another adventure tourism related death in New Zealand. Catherine Peters, an 18 year old student in her first year of a veterinary degree at Massey University died in March from injuries…
“The appalling…ridiculous way she died has just been very upsetting. It was just so preventable at every stage and the impact on us is there forever” Chris Jordan, father of Emily Jordan (TVNZ) Please take some time to listen to his very articulate comments and recommendations in a Radio NZ interview link:http://www.radionz.co.nz/audio/national/ckpt/2009/08/24/company_pleads_guilty_to_2_charges_over_tourist_deathThe company is liable…
As I predicted on Friday a deal was struck in the trial of Mcleod and the Mad Dog River boarding company in connection with the death of British tourist Emily Jordan, before the defence presented its case. Despite the trial going well a shocking three charges against McLeod and one against the company were dropped…
Picture Birmingham Mail From ODT 21 August “Allegations a company did not have an “industry standard” safe operational plan and was “irresponsible” for not carrying a rope were some of the issues discussed at length by Maritime New Zealand’s whitewater sports expert witness in the Queenstown District Court yesterday. In the prosecution following the death…
ODT 20 August “A whitewater sports expert has told a Queenstown court hearing that a rescue rope could have saved the life of a young English woman who drowned while riverboarding in the Kawarau Gorge last year. The belief that ropes and knives could become hazards themselves in white-water situations was “ill-informed and uneducated”, a…
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