Andrew Connor Brown was an occupational scuba diver employed as a red sea urchin harvester on the vessel Diver City.
A Prince Rupert boat operator has been fined $25,000 in the 2018 drowning death of a 26-year-old red urchin diver.
Prince Rupert provincial court Judge David Patterson said Blackburn, as owner and employer, and Michael Harvey Juergen Steinmann, as employer, failed to take steps to educate or properly train themselves or their employees concerning the relevant legislation and scuba practices required for a safe workplace.
Brown, who went by his middle name, drowned one metre below the surface in the Hecate Strait on Oct. 16, 2018. The Hecate Straight is approximately 200 kilometres south of Prince Rupert. It was McGee who found Brown unresponsive and entangled in kelp 91 minutes after Brown had entered the ocean.“It remains a mystery why Connor, a fully qualified occupational scuba diver, drowned at a depth of one metre, with two-thirds of the air in his tank remaining,” Patterson said. “The maximum depth on Connor's diving watch was 6.1 metres, which is shallow for scuba diving.
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