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Posted on 05/07/2007 1:51:35 PM PDT by LibWhacker
Family sues survival school after death of fit 29-year-old on wilderness course
"Dave is dead." The words came at the end of the second day of what was supposed to be a character-forming experience, a chance for 12 people to "experience the wilderness to the fullest".
Instead, the trek through the mountains and desert of Utah in the mid-western US left David Buschow, a fit 29-year-old US air force veteran and security guard from New York dehydrated and hallucinating, his eyes bulging and tongue swollen. Less than 10 hours after setting off from the group's overnight camp on the second day, Buschow collapsed and died.
According to the coroner's report, he died from "dehydration and electrolyte imbalance due to hiking in hot environmental temperatures with inadequate water and electrolyte replacement".
But, an inquiry has found, the three wilderness camp instructors accompanying the group did have water. They chose not to offer it to Buschow, preferring that he attempt to complete the day's task. Buschow died knowing he was just 100 yards from the spot where water had already been found.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
Jeez... what a way to go. I’d hang the guides.
How does someone get THAT dehydrated in 10 hours?
Tort law works in cases like this. The school will be gone, the ‘guides’ will be bankrupted and probably banned from ever working in a similar role.
Criminal charges seem worth considering, too.
What a horrible way to die. I hope that school, and those instructors, get everything they have coming to them.
Tort law works in cases like this. The school will be gone, the ‘guides’ will be bankrupted and probably banned from ever working in a similar role.
Criminal charges seem worth considering, too.
Even a slight touch of the runs can do it if it's hot outside.
It was the second day without water. Extreme exertion, heat, sweating, vomiting, etc. The electrolyte imbalance, meaning loss of potassium and other minerals as well as sodium, likely gave him a cardiac arrythmia, which killed him.
It says he was vomiting, so I’m sure that contributed to the dehydration. I can assure you, when I go walking here in the mornings in the summer, even without the sun up yet, it’s close to that hot. If I don’t drink regularly while I’m walking, I feel nauseous and dizzy. And that is just regular walking. I can see how this could happen to him.
sometimes character is overrated - me-thinks it was intelligence, rather, that was in short supply.
criminal negligence if you ask me.
sometimes character is overrated - me-thinks it was intelligence, rather, that was in short supply.
They were hiking in the heat of the day, and it was very hot. Some of the other hikers said conditions felt like an oven. The hikers also were not allowed to carry water with them. They could only drink when they found water, but not fill water bottles or canteens.
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Have you ever hiked in the southwestern US during the summer? It gets very hot in Utah. Also the man who died was from New York, so he might not have been acclimated to the climate. I hope the bozos who own this camp lose their asses.
At least it was a peaceful death.
Or so the Progressives maintain.
/sarc
Rest in peace and thank you for your service.
25 years in prison.
No I have never hiked there, only in the NE, and I gets pretty hot in the summer. Foolishly I was not looking at the fact he was ill. That would surely dehydrate anyone enough to cause death. I was looking only at the fact that many have survived the desert without water for longer than 10 hours. But, they were not vomiting etc.
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