CDNN: AquaZone, Sheico PKS to pay $1.4 million diver death settlementPowered by CDNN - CYBER DIVER News NetworkHONOLULU, Hawaii (21 May 2006) -- Three companies have agreed to pay $1.4 million to the family of a West Virginia woman who died while scuba diving off Hawai'i Kai.
Susann Lovejoy, 42, of Huntington, W.Va., drowned during a scuba diving trip July 14, 2003, when she had problems with a device that controls the diver's buoyancy, said family attorney Rick Fried. Her inexperience as a scuba diver combined with the malfunction of her buoyancy device and a lack of supervision contributed to the drowning, Fried said. The settlement calls for the Waikiki-based scuba dive charter, AquaZone, to pay
$400,000. The manufacturer of the diving equipment, Sheico PKS Inc., paid $300,000, and the equipment distributor paid $700,000. Go to full CDNN News Report >>> | 
