Family sues over Florida Keys dive death

[Rred]

The bugaboo of "You are liable for your buddy, even if that's some total freak we just paired you with on the boat" is being used, actively used, to quietly encourage divers to take some of the "elf reliant diving" aka "solo diving" courses. You give the dive operator or boat operator or whoever three releases, releasing the certifying organization, the dive business, and the boat from all liability and you can just jump in the water, they've all got releases and they're all happy now.

Years ago one bozo pulled my friend's BC CO2 emergency ascent bottle, and off he started to go. Fortunately he knew how to control that, but that's the last time he let some dive operator assign a buddy to him.

 

[Leadking]

Is there legal precedent for suing a deceased buddy?! Oh my - this looks ugly!

You sue the estate of the deceased.

 

[Strima77]

Hopefully the courts will rule that none of the defendants had a legal duty to the woman - and that she is responsible for her own death. Unless there is evidence someone did something egregiously wrong, the woman diver should be held to have undertaken the normal risks of diving. Same goes for all outdoor pursuits.