The two were attempting to rescue a teacher who had fallen into the ocean. Friday's accident is the latest in a number of high-profile tragedies involving students on school trips during the past two years. A coroner's inquest on that case is expected to probe whether school boards take sufficient safety measures on school trips. But Canadian safety advocates say buses are known as one of the safest ways for school children to travel. He said a Transport Canada bus safety report released last February found little need to change regulations or upgrade driver training.
Bus accidents make up less than one per cent of total fatalities.
Bill O'Leary, a Halifax psychologist who provides grief counseling, said parents who lose children in school accidents usually go into a state of disbelief and shock. That's part of the grief process. These things get resolved as they're helped through the grieving process. But Koschel said she knows parents never fully recover from the deaths of their children. Elizabeth LaPierre chaperoned children from the Nova Scotia school when they visited Massachusetts last year.