When adventure tourism kills
Every year hundreds of people die while living life to the fullest — battling white-water rapids, climbing the world’s tallest mountain peak, descending to the depths of the ocean. Time Magazine takes a second look at last week’s shark attack that killed an Austrian tourist. “One of the things about these high-risk activities is that if you’re going to participate in them you assume a certain kind of risk,” Prof. Lyrissa Lidsky, who teaches tort law at the University of Florida, told Time. In the case of Markus Groh, the question is whether the tour operator failed to use reasonable care when he took a group of tourists diving for sharks without using cages. “Is the thing that killed him something that you normally associate with shark watching?” Lidsky asks, “Or, is it something that could have been avoided had the company used reasonable care?”
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