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Tuesday, 13 April 2010 18:42 |
Exmouth diving company, Jurrasic Coast Diving has been fined £6,000 and ordered to pay costs of £6,200 at Exeter Magistrates' Court after pleading guilty to breaches of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, in relation to the death of 24-year-old Thomas Young while scuba diving.
An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found that Jurassic Coast Diving failed to properly assemble and maintain its scuba diving life support equipment.
Young disappeared in July 2006 while undertaking a PADI Advanced Open Water qualification dive with Jurassic Coast Diving, a PADI 5 star instructor development centre.
Young was diving the World War I wreck of the steam ship the Bretagnem at a depth of 29m. His body was never recovered after he failed to surface despite a large search operation involving Brixham coastguards, two Sea King helicopters and Torbay diving club.
An inquest jury was told Young, "dropped like a stone to the bottom of the ocean after panicking for lack of air"
Torbay and South Devon Coroner Ian Arrow recorded an open verdict at the inquest at the Riviera Centre in Torquay.
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