Contents of this Issue:
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Anse Chastanet, St. Lucia, the Caribbean
Neal Watson and Bimini Big Game Club Get Sued
Book Review – Muck Diving by Nigel Marsh
Bora Bora and Tikehau, French Polynesia
Poisonous Air — It’s Very Serious When It Happens
Shark Movies: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Villa Markisa, Tulamben, and Bali, Indonesia
Tigers Get Around
A Hidden Killer in Our Midst
Worse Things Happen at Sea!
Is It One Up, All Up?
Undercurrent Aids Subscriber with Travel Problems
Suunto Recalls ALL Computer Transmitters and PODs
Online Dive Trip Booking Portals: Part II
Tropical Ice, in paperback – “Perhaps the best scuba thriller ever”
Underwater Wineries
Flotsam & Jetsam
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The personal representative and wife of a Kentucky man, Burton Stodghill, have filed a lawsuit after he was fatally injured while scuba diving in the Bahamas. The plaintiff alleges that on March 2, her husband was a guest at the Bimini Big Game Club Resort and Marina and participated in a dive. The plaintiff alleges that the decedent was allowed to dive without any instruction or briefing and without a dive partner, and subsequently drowned.
Catherine Stodghill filed the complaint on June 2 in Broward County, Florida, against Hankey Group, doing business as Bimini Big Game Club Resort and Marina; Neal Watson's Bimini Scuba Center; Neal Watson Undersea Adventures Inc.; and Neal Watson Inc., alleging negligence. The plaintiff holds the defendants responsible because they allegedly allowed the use of a dive boat without first aid equipment on board, allowed dives to be conducted by improperly trained dive masters, and failed to provide spare emergency scuba tanks.
(Source: Florida Record)