Drysuit Dive Fatality of Linnea Mills - Gross Dive Shop Negligence Alleged in Lawsuit
Channel: Discovery Divers Tokyo
Date: 2021-06-07

See (6/21 update below)
On Nov of 2020, and 18-year-old Linnea Rose Mills dive on a freshwater dive at Lake McDonald, Glacier National Park, Montana. A $12M filed by the family alleges that the Gull Dive Center was negligent in not providing Linnea with proper dry suit instruction, and inflator hose, proper briefing, and supervision, and she was fatally overweighed with non-ditchable weight. The suit alleges that the end result was that Linnea was fatally squeezed at depth and unable to breathe nor return to the surface due to suit restrictions and being overweight beyond the capacity of the BC. The legal filing and other news reports also allege that there are other questions regarding the instructor's ability to teach drysuit, lack of emergency procedures, and the PADI teaching status of the Gull dive center. PADI is also named in the lawsuit.

(6/21) Update: https://youtu.be/F4yvz6akmQg

Neither the Mills Family nor their representative has expressed objections to the materials presented here, which also contains some of their input. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the Milles family, Please consider donating, as I have, to the Linnea Foundation, a link that was provided by her mom:
https://givebutter.com/linnea

Scuba Board Discussion: https://www.scubaboard.com/community/threads/suit-filed-in-case-of-girl-dead-boy-injured-at-glacier-national-park.607756/
Legal Filing, Download from first post on this ScubaBoard Page: 
https://www.scubaboard.com/community/threads/suit-filed-in-case-of-girl-dead-boy-injured-at-glacier-national-park.607756/
News Reports:
https://www.kpax.com/news/missoula-county/young-missoula-woman-remembered-for-love-of-life-compassion-sense-of-adventure
https://missoulacurrent.com/montana-today/2021/05/lawsuit-details-negligence/
https://divernet.com/2021/05/09/12m-lawsuit-follows-suit-squeeze-death/
Simply Scuba Video:
https://youtu.be/awSLocuv_WA
Drysuit Linnea was wearing:
https://brooksdivegear.com/duratex/?fbclid=IwAR3Rhfemq0dK5AS-ebsBdt8pb9fIYUgjCBs911z-a-EB9Js4QuruoGeWIso

Photo Credit, Thumbnail:
Nick, Linnea’s brother, took the photo as part of the senior photos he did for her. The background was added for this video, a photo of the dive site at Lake McDonald, where Linnea passed. Used with permission of the family. 

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Jim

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