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New Zealand judge pulls up tour operator for ‘astonishing failures’ related to safety audits ‘It really, really hurt’: Four years after White Island volcano disaster court finds tour ...
Three helicopter tour operators pleaded guilty on Friday to safety breaches when New Zealand’s White Island volcano erupted in 2019, claiming 22 lives. Volcanic Air Safaris Ltd., Kahu NZ Ltd ...
The management company of White Island, where a volcano eruption killed 22 people, mostly tourists, in 2019, was found guilty of one charge of breaching health and safety law in a New Zealand ...
The volcano erupted on 9 December 2019 at 2:11 pm local time (01:11 UTC). [3] The ash plume rose 3.7 kilometres (12,000 ft) into the air. [26]It was initially believed that there were about 100 tourists on or near the island when the eruption took place; later, this figure was revised to 47 people who were on the island at the time. [27]
Whakaari / White Island and the sea stacks that form Club Rocks and Volckner Rocks are the emergent summits of a larger, 16 by 18 kilometres (9.9 by 11.2 mi), submarine volcano. It is known as White Island Volcano and has a total volume of 78 km 3 (19 cu mi). The bathymetry surrounding the emergent summit of Whakaari / White Island consists of ...
The remnants of a volcanic core, over 400 metres (1,300 ft) high, projecting through the ice near the southwest end of White Island. Named by the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (NZGSAE; 1958-59) from the Greek word nesos (nisos), meaning island, and referring to the fact that although isolated by the ice sheet the hill is a part of White Island.
A U.S. honeymoon couple who survived severe burns when New Zealand’s White Island volcano erupted in 2019 are listed as the first witnesses to testify in a trial of tourism industry operators ...
Whakaari / White Island. Whakaari / White Island had a major, edifice failure collapse of its volcano dated to 946 BCE ± 52 years. It has been suggested that this was the cause of the tsunami tens of metres tall that went up to 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) inland in the Bay of Plenty at about this time.