Our readers know that we often write about adventure tourism related deaths and serious injuries on this blog and a while ago we commented on the death of Paul Woods – A British general surgeon at Dunedin Hospital he died when the jet boat he was a passenger in flipped after hitting a gravel bank in…
The families of three British people killed in Adventure Sport activities in New Zealand have formed an support and pressure group to push for better regulation of the industry and have called for all operators to be licensed. See ABC News report of a RadioNZ broadcast The families of Emily Jordan, Sarah Bond and Tom…
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…
First reports are coming in for the press conference held yesterday by British man Chris Jordan, father of Emily Jordan who drowned whilst river boarding with Mad Dog River Boarding in New Zealand in 2008. See other posts about the trial here: Emily Jordan update: Mad Dog later changed its name to The River Boarding…
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