He said water-related activities like scuba diving always came with a risk of drowning and the professional scuba diving company should have managed the risk especially when running courses for people who had no scuba diving experience. A scuba diving company has been ordered to pay $70,000 in reparations for failing to keep a Taiwanese tourist safe after she died while on a dive in the Coromandel. The woman was on a recreational scuba dive in Hahei in November 2014 when she swam out of the enclosed bay where the dive was taking place. WorkSafe chief inspector Keith Stewart said the victim's death was entirely preventable and put the blame firmly on the company. Cathedral Cove Dive and its director Russell Cochrane had earlier pleaded guilty to three charges under the Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992.

Source: Otago Daily Times August 09, 2016 05:03 UTC