Another foreign tourist has died in a tourism activity in New Zealand. This latest fatality was on 6 January during a guided dive in Port Gore at the top of the South Island, part of the Marlborough Sounds which also was the scene of the dolphin boat incident in December when an Australian tourist’s legs…
A roller-coaster derailed at the Caroline Bay carnival in Timaru yesterday at 3.45pm, leaving a man and a four year old child hanging upside down within a carriage below the tracks. The man was taken to hospital with back injuries and the child is said to have been “shaken” by the event. See the report…
Today’s Dom Post had published a story saying that Reverse Bungy NZ in central Wellington has been closed due to safety concerns. Apparently the capital city’s tourist attraction has something of a “chequered safety history” over the last 14 months. The Dom Post states that the Department of Labour had been investigating the mechanical failure of…
A reporter writing for the New Zealand Herald newspaper has used the Freedom of Information Act to obtain a report into the death of Anton Wopereis on New Year’s Day 2008. Mr Wopereis, aged 54, was an an internationally qualified guide contracted to Aspiring Guides. He died after falling from the Summit Rocks of Mt…
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