Dive boat accident involving Dive tech and Cathy Church boat

[Doctorfish]

As I said before, Kangaroo Court. Short of someone having a stroke while at the helm, I cannot imagine any plausible excuse for ramming a moored vessel at a dive/snorkel site.

 

[Gareth J]

She was in violation of rule 5, 6, 7, 8, 13, and 18.

If I remember the 'rules' correctly.
Rule 1. (I think the general wording is something along the lines of).
Irrespective of the 'rules' every effort is to be made to avoid collision. (which basically, you can disobey the 'rules' if it allows you to avoid a collision. Blindly following the rules does not remove your responsibility to rule 1.)


I actually like the fact that they actually have a rule that says avoid collisions, even if you break the rules -Golden.

 

[Tug]

If I remember the 'rules' correctly.
Rule 1. (I think the general wording is something along the lines of).
Irrespective of the 'rules' every effort is to be made to avoid collision. (which basically, you can disobey the 'rules' if it allows you to avoid a collision. Blindly following the rules does not remove your responsibility to rule 1.)


I actually like the fact that they actually have a rule that says avoid collisions, even if you break the rules -Golden.

That and safe speed are the ones that will always hang you....

 

[Wookie]

That and safe speed are the ones that will always hang you....

Yes. I love safe speed, because the very first lesson taught to me as a captain was “do not approach any object faster than you want to hit it”. Every docking is a collision, just at a safe speed.

 

[hilljo88]

Sailor dies in yacht crash on last night of Cannes film festival

 

[KathyV]

Cathy Church has been charged for the boat accident with Dive Tech:

Cathy Church charged over boat collision | Cayman Compass

Cathy Church charged over boat collision
July 4, 2019


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Divetech's boat Atatude was damaged in the collision. - Photo: Taneos Ramsay


Photographer and environmental advocate Cathy Church has been charged by police in connection with a boat crash at the Kittiwake dive site.

The Royal Cayman Islands Police Service confirmed a 74-year-old woman, understood to be Church, was formally charged with navigating a vessel so as to cause damage or risk of damage and committing a reckless and negligent act in relation to the collision on 8 Jan. this year.

She will be summonsed to attend court at a later date.

Church’s boat ploughed into the side of a Divetech scuba boat that was moored at the Kittiwake dive site.

Divetech’s distinctive pink boat Atatude was damaged in the incident. According to Divetech staff, there was no one at the helm of Church’s boat when the collision occurred.

 

[Joneill]

Cathy Church has been charged for the boat accident with Dive Tech:

Cathy Church charged over boat collision | Cayman Compass

Cathy Church charged over boat collision
July 4, 2019



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Divetech's boat Atatude was damaged in the collision. - Photo: Taneos Ramsay


Photographer and environmental advocate Cathy Church has been charged by police in connection with a boat crash at the Kittiwake dive site.

The Royal Cayman Islands Police Service confirmed a 74-year-old woman, understood to be Church, was formally charged with navigating a vessel so as to cause damage or risk of damage and committing a reckless and negligent act in relation to the collision on 8 Jan. this year.

She will be summonsed to attend court at a later date.

Church’s boat ploughed into the side of a Divetech scuba boat that was moored at the Kittiwake dive site.

Divetech’s distinctive pink boat Atatude was damaged in the incident. According to Divetech staff, there was no one at the helm of Church’s boat when the collision occurred.

Good to hear there will be consequences - not that I have anything against Cathy Church, but the accident was inexcusable and totally preventable - so a message needs to be sent that this type of carelessness will not be tolerated.

 

[scubafanatic]

FIVE Months to charge her ??? !!! Def on island time down there!

 

[mi000ke]

You know what they say about the wheels of justice grinding slowly....

 

[tkaelin]

Notable lack of any informative details. Better late and hopefully correct than fast and wrong . . . as far as any charges.