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Lyme Bay Tragedy

March 1993

What happened?

- The wind changed to South-West

- The group arrived at Golden Cap

Lyme Regis beach

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Charmouth

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Golden Cap

- The teacher capsized

- 1 instructor tried to help the teacher

- The others formed a raft

How to prevent this?

Result?

- Always contact the coast guard

- Have at least one senior instructor on a trip

- Instruct your students on how to inflate a lifejacket

- Be aware of wind changes

- Be aware of landscape changes

- Bring fire flairs

Four students died

Four other students and the teacher were injured

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What happened?

Peter Kite, the owner of the centre sentenced to three years in prison

...

First major convicting for corporate manslaughting in a British court

What went wrong?

And next?

Date: March 1993

- Nice sunny day with a Northern wind

- Group of students and teacher with an hour experience in kayaking

- Normal trip consists of two hours paddling along the U.K coast

Location: Lyme Regis, Devon, U.K

- One star canoe award

- One hour of training

- The coast guard wasn't warned about this trip

- No spraydecks

- The coast guard didn't respond

- No instructions on life jackets

- The tide was coming in

- The instructor and the 8 students capsized due to the amount of water in their kayak

- The coast guard was warned too late

Who: - 2 instructors

- 1 teacher

- 8 students

Golden Cap:

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