New Zealand judge Evangelos Thomas criticised failures of safety audits given ‘obvious risks’ that led to 2019 fatal eruption

  • @liv
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    8 months ago

    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?

    • @DaveMA
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      38 months ago

      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.