Accidental death, and now, someone’s charged with negligence! From the Front Page Sections, translated…
A woman, Ju, last July went to Gongliao for a Scuba Diving training, but, on the verge of receiving her licensure, at her last class session, she’d drowned. The D.A. believed, that the three diving coaches didn’t make sure that Ju was safe, and wasn’t within the reaches, that they couldn’t immediately resuscitate her, and charged the three coaches based off of manslaughter charges.
The D.A. and police investigated, that Liao (age 58), was the man in charge of the Scuba diving center, has a PADI professional divers’ licensure.
At the end of July of last year, Liao, the man in charge took Ju (age 34) and another student, Lin, to Bitoujiao for their final diving lesson, and, after they’d passed the qualifications, they would have earned their beginner’s level license. Liao, the man in charge of the diving school wasn’t feeling well, although he’d gone into the water with the group, he’d asked Liao (age 26), who’d just earned his PADI diver licensure, and Yang (age 44), to administer this final diving test.
Liao and Yang weren’t familiar with the diving training program or the new students, and, Liao, the man in charge didn’t clearly tell his workers, to maintain eye contact, and stay within arms’ length to the students, to assure that when needed, they can save the students from drowning.
At nine in the morning, the two students and the trainers all got back on shore safe and sound; at around eleven in the morn, they’d entered back into the waters again, but, Ju went missing, and, they’d sent out a search team for her; another coach, Hsu found that she was lying flat, on the seafloor, thirteen meters deep, and, the coaches dove in, pulled her back out, but she’d still died.
the need for a “buddy system” even IF you’re a skilled diver, NOT my photograph…
The coast guards told, that Ju and another student, and the coaches, a total of five people all went into the oceans, at around a little past eleven, a coach found a rare eel, and wanted the students to see, that, was when he’d found, that Ju wasn’t with the group; as she was pulled back up, the oxygen tank she carried behind her showed zero, that she was, out of oxygen.
Liao, the man in charge claimed, that based off of the diving instructions manual, the course that Ju had signed on for, the coach didn’t need to be within arms’ length to her.
But the D.A. found, that the manual clearly stated that “in the cleared waters”, the coaches should swim along by the pupils, and in the open waters, they’d needed to maintain a safety zone with the students; the D.A. found Liao and Yang not done that, which was what caused Ju to drown, and not been saved, the D.A. charged all three men with manslaughter.
And so, despite what the manual said, because these coaches didn’t pay enough attention to the students’ safety, that, is why they were all, charged with manslaughter, and this just shows, that even IF it’s written on paper, you still can’t rely on what’s written, to get you off the hook, and, a woman had DIED in this case!
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