New Zealand judge Evangelos Thomas criticised failures of safety audits given ‘obvious risks’ that led to 2019 fatal eruption
New Zealand judge Evangelos Thomas criticised failures of safety audits given ‘obvious risks’ that led to 2019 fatal eruption
I can see your point.
I always got the impression seismologically Whakaari was more likely to go than Ruapehu, but that might just be because it’s a tsunami risk so civil defence always talked about it. “White Island Eruption” was a bit like “Quicksand”.
In terms of the jet boat I think it’s a probability vs magnitude issue i.e a jetboat is not able to kill as many people at a time. Also not sure whether the per capita is much worse?
I think it’s where the volcanic alert levels come in. At this event, the rating had been raised to say there was a risk but operators still went anyway because they got away with it in the past. I can see a future where we continue these trips but only at volcanic alert levels of 0 or 1.