The whole trip was a cluster fcuk from start to finish.
No risk assessment (they shouldn’t have even been in the water that day due to storm surge), no health and safety briefing, participants didn’t even know about the weir.(and certainly.shouldnt have tried to.go.over it), neither instructor adequately trained although advertised as ‘fully trained’, one person didn’t have life jacket, three didn’t have wetsuits, the way the boards were strapped to people made it harder for them to get out of spinning water.
Good enough for her. She probably thought she was onto a right earner. Spin up a paddleboard company with fuck all experience, stick people out on a river for a few hours and job’s a good’un.
Nope.
Honestly feel like it’s not enough time, especially when you consider 4 lives were lost due to her negligence which she clearly knew about.
A clear case of gross negligence manslaughter, and a lenient sentence given the numbers. A handy reminder not to take adventure providers/guides claims on face value. Something people might be more diligent about when travelling abroad but less so at home..
I’m far from knowledgeable about SUPs, but they seem inherently risky for novices on a river. High centre of gravity and if you’re falling in, you’re falling in harder/deeper than (e.g. rolling out of an open kayak). I’m amazed that you can even think about taking novices into swollen rivers, let alone anywhere near a weir.
10 years for 4 deaths. Dosent seem remotely close to what it should be
Being an ex police officer, you’d expect at the very least adherence to the remit of their instructor qualification, which in absolutely no way would permit them to take groups anywhere except enclosed, still water for lessons.
On the day they were saying there was a freak surge, but if you’d looked at the river gauge the level was meters above the dangerous level for kayaking, (let alone paddle-boarding of any sort) having rained heavily the day before.
There was only one outcome from putting people in the water that day. Sadly the leaders should have called it off. If they had the qualifications to run the trip they’d have gone for a walk with their group, and discussed why they weren’t going in, and gone to a cafe instead.
This tragedy has traumatised the paddle-boarding community as a whole, and should be a water shed moment for every water based activity provider, whether they’re charging or not.
She carried on on social media since this tragic event like it never happened. Utterly shameless
Watching the video of the conditions that day, makes my blood run cold. Those poor people.
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The whole trip was a cluster fcuk from start to finish.
No risk assessment (they shouldn’t have even been in the water that day due to storm surge), no health and safety briefing, participants didn’t even know about the weir.(and certainly.shouldnt have tried to.go.over it), neither instructor adequately trained although advertised as ‘fully trained’, one person didn’t have life jacket, three didn’t have wetsuits, the way the boards were strapped to people made it harder for them to get out of spinning water.
Good enough for her. She probably thought she was onto a right earner. Spin up a paddleboard company with fuck all experience, stick people out on a river for a few hours and job’s a good’un.
Nope.
Honestly feel like it’s not enough time, especially when you consider 4 lives were lost due to her negligence which she clearly knew about.
A clear case of gross negligence manslaughter, and a lenient sentence given the numbers. A handy reminder not to take adventure providers/guides claims on face value. Something people might be more diligent about when travelling abroad but less so at home..
I’m far from knowledgeable about SUPs, but they seem inherently risky for novices on a river. High centre of gravity and if you’re falling in, you’re falling in harder/deeper than (e.g. rolling out of an open kayak). I’m amazed that you can even think about taking novices into swollen rivers, let alone anywhere near a weir.
10 years for 4 deaths. Dosent seem remotely close to what it should be
Being an ex police officer, you’d expect at the very least adherence to the remit of their instructor qualification, which in absolutely no way would permit them to take groups anywhere except enclosed, still water for lessons.
On the day they were saying there was a freak surge, but if you’d looked at the river gauge the level was meters above the dangerous level for kayaking, (let alone paddle-boarding of any sort) having rained heavily the day before.
There was only one outcome from putting people in the water that day. Sadly the leaders should have called it off. If they had the qualifications to run the trip they’d have gone for a walk with their group, and discussed why they weren’t going in, and gone to a cafe instead.
This tragedy has traumatised the paddle-boarding community as a whole, and should be a water shed moment for every water based activity provider, whether they’re charging or not.
She carried on on social media since this tragic event like it never happened. Utterly shameless
Watching the video of the conditions that day, makes my blood run cold. Those poor people.
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