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…
The Southland Times is carrying a story this morning about Mad Dog River Boarding lodging a resource consent to expand its business: “On Tuesday last week, Mad Dog lodged a resource consent application with Lakes Environmental that would allow it to take another 100 clients daily on the Kawarau River. It has consent to take…
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…
Stan Siejka, a highly regarded neurologist from the Australian state of Tasmania has died from his injuries after a fall at the Porters Ski area near Canterbury, South Island yesterday. Dr Siejka’s death will come as a major blow to medical services in the state where he almost singlehandedly provided the neurology services. He was…
So far we are aware of at least 6 prosecutions that have been brought this year for 12 fatalities related to adventure tourism related activites in New Zealand. At present it is unclear if the number is so high because of an increase in the number of these types of fatalities, or whether it is…
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