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Teen Killed In Freak Tour Boat Accident Planned To Attend Baylor
A Texas teenager who died after a tourist boat sank during a high school graduation trip to Mexico had planned to attend Baylor University this fall.
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(South Grand Prairie High School Yearbook Photo)
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(June 11, 2008)—Lisa Thang Chung, 18, who died Tuesday after nearly drowning when a tourist boat sank while she was on a high school graduation trip to Mexico, had planned to attend Baylor University this fall, the Dallas Morning News reported Wednesday.
Chung, who graduated from South Grand Prairie High School this spring, suffered heart and lung failure when the catamaran sank on Saturday.
She was declared brain dead and was being kept alive on a respirator.
She was flown home with her parents on an air ambulance Tuesday and later died.
Those aboard the tourist boat were reportedly told to jump as the vessel began to sink Saturday.
Chung was wearing a life preserver, but evidently was trapped beneath a rescue boat.
Mexican authorities are investigating whether the "Sea Star" catamaran was overloaded.
A preliminary report by the port captain said the boat appeared to be carrying 126 people when it is authorized to carry 80, but Sea Star Captain Agustin Cituk said the boat has the capacity to carry 250 people.
A GradCity spokesman says the snorkeling excursion was part of a package trip organized by the U.S. tourist agency.
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lisa was my best friend i know her for 10 years at one time she was my girlfriend and is was a good one it hurt me that she gone
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I agree with College Girl. For our senior trip we went to Fiesta Texas and had a blast. I don't think you need to go out of state to have fun. I do think that going out of the country like to the different Islands and even Mexico (not saying it's out of the country) is a little dangerous for American teenagers, they make for easy targets.
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I went on my senior trip to cancun mexico, I went on a scuba diving excursion, and had a blast. I will also say that my mom was with me, my best friend, but... i agree there were about 300 of us and 4, i say again 4 parents. now you tell me who was watched? it goes back to the parents. my mom and aunt was with me, there 2 and one other girl took her mom and her aunt. Thats alot of kids not looked after. But if a parent lets thier child go, then they have to deal with the outcome. This situation has nothing to do with canceling the trips. Why screw the rest of us with common sense? But again.... this girl was with her parents. she was not out there going wild. so it can happen anywhere. for not leaveing Tx cause its safe, you def live in la-la land. turn on the news and tell me how safe it is. We went to schlitterbaun too and when we were there a child fell off one of the "child proof" slides and broke his nose,teeth and arm. Now tell me its safe there. you just have to be careful&safe
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