Human Error Cited In Boat Accident That Left Texas Teenager Dead
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Human Error Cited In Boat Accident That Left Texas Teenager Dead
Human error was the cause of a weekend boating accident that claimed the life of an 18-year-old Texas high school graduate who planned to attend Baylor University this fall.
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(June 13, 2008)—Human error caused the weekend tourist boat accident that claimed the life of an 18-year-old Texas high school graduate who planned to attend Baylor University this fall, Mexican officials say.

Mexican government navigation official Miguel Angel Rebolledo said the boat's captain steered too close to a coral reef, damaging the vessel's hull and causing it to partially sink.

Officials said that Captain Agustin Cituk lacked sufficient experience with the catamaran-type vessel involved in the mishap.

Lisa Chung was on a graduation trip to Mexico when the vessel began to sink near Cancun.

She and other passengers were told to jump from the ship.

She was wearing a life preserver, but evidently was trapped underwater by a rescue boat, according to some accounts.

Mexican officials, however, said she may have dived off the wrong side of the boat and may have hit her head on the reef.

Doctors in Mexico said she was brain dead, but she was kept alive on a ventilator as her parents returned her to Dallas, where she died on Tuesday.

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Posted by: wacky Location: waqco on Jun 13, 2008 at 11:57 AM

What is there some kind of jinx when you go to Mexico after Graduation? My heart goes out to the family I myself know about loss I am only 18 and have lost my father who passed away 12-05-2007
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Posted by: EVE Location: Waco on Jun 13, 2008 at 10:59 AM

Tragedy prayer are with her family. When I graduated Midway in 1999 Noore Issa died in a car crash in Temple coming back from a trip from Mexico.
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