Company failed to ensure safety of B.C. diver who died harvesting sea urchins

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Guilty pleas have been entered in a case of an occupational diver who drowned while harvesting sea urchins near Haida Gwaii in 2018.

At the time of the Oct. 16, 2018 tragedy, Connor Brown, 26, was working on the motor vessel Diver City and employed as a scuba diver on a three-person crew that included two divers and the vessel’s master, Eric Joseph Blackburn.

He was found 91 minutes after he first entered the water in Hecate Strait, about 200 kilometres south of Prince Rupert, and 70 minutes after he last changed depth. His equipment was only on one shoulder, consistent with an attempt at self-rescue.Article content “Blackburn and McGee did not know when or for how long Brown was in distress, because Brown and McGee were not in visual contact as required by the .”

It says that when Steinmann hired Blackburn, he knew that Blackburn had no qualifications in scuba and did not have the required training or certifications of a diving supervisor and was not qualified to act as a diving supervisor. While underwater, the two divers did not use any type of signal or audio device to communicate with each other or the surface and were not in constant physical or visual contact.

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