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…
Johnathan Armour, Emily Jordan’s boyfriend (see ‘British woman Emily Jordan’s death‘ and ‘Emily Jordan not briefed on how to escape’) today gave evidence via video link from the UK to the court hearing in New Zealand. He criticised the safety briefing given to the couple prior to their river boarding experience, saying if he’d been…
picture Daily Mail From worcesternews.co.uk Monday 17 August “A FORMER Worcester schoolgirl who died taking part in an extreme sport was not briefed about how to escape in an emergency, a court was told. Emily Jordan, of Trim-pley, near Bewdley, was riverboarding in the Kawarau River Gorge near Queenstown on New Zealand’s south island in…
picture Daily Mail See other posts about the trial here: Emily Jordan From worcesternews.co.uk Monday 17 August “A FORMER Worcester schoolgirl who died taking part in an extreme sport was not briefed about how to escape in an emergency, a court was told. Emily Jordan, of Trim-pley, near Bewdley, was riverboarding in the Kawarau River…
From Stuff: “Mad Dog River Boarding director Brad McLeod is in Queenstown District Court today defending charges laid by Maritime New Zealand after a tourist died on one of the company’s excursions. British woman Emily Jordan, 21, drowned after becoming trapped between two rocks while riverboarding on the Kawarau River Gorge last April. The outing…
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