Professional Services
- Preliminary discovery review and case merit assessment
- On-site aquatic accident investigation and causation reconstruction
- Attorney orientation with relevant aquatic industry standards
- Insight into probably opposing side aquatic theories and strategies
- Hindcasting of aquatic accident behaviors and biomechanical scenarios
- Equipment failure analysis and product performance testing
- Safety auditing of aquatic facilities, employee performance and posted warnings
- Courtroom exhibits, photo/video documentation, aquatic accident research and forensic re-enactments
- Answering interrogatories, preparing expert affidavits and reports
- Providing expert witness testimony at depositions and trials
Aquatic Accident Analysis
- Forensic reconstruction of aquatic accidents
- Time/motion re-enactment at the surface and below
- Specialized photography and video documentation
- Measuring slip resistance on wet walking surfaces
- Possesses familiarity with “how to get things done” in remote Caribbean islands
Aquatic Safety Engineering
- Emergency action plans
- Safety surveys of aquatic facility design, construction, maintenance and operation
- Staff evaluation and training
- Hazard foreseeability and warning signs
- Legal compliance
- Industry standards
Aquatic Human and Biomechanical Factors
- Drowning accidents
- Spinal cord injuries from diving into shallow water
- Slips and falls
- Boating and personal watercraft accidents
- Water skiing accidents
- SCUBA diving accidents
- Suction entrapment accidents
Aquatic Product Liability
- Aquatic environmental factors and forensic evidence gathering
- Failure analysis and performance testing of aquatic products
- Confirming misuses and hidden causal defects
- Adequacy of warnings and instructions
Highlights of Expertise
- Aquatic litigation expert witness
- Water safety consulting and risk assessment
- Arsenal of technical resources
- “Dream Team” of industry specialists and expertise
- Extensive technical library of aquatic industry standards and codes
- Featured speaker at aquatic safety conferences
- Featured expert on national TV broadcasts
- Forensic aquatic accident reconstruction
- Investigated more than 1,600 cases
- Aquatic product testing and evaluation
- Reconstructs what the eye doesn’t see
- Industry memberships, affiliations and certifications
- Instructor: SCUBA, first aid, CPR, water safety, boating, water skiing, aquatic risk management
- Produced American Red Cross aquatic safety training films and videos
- University graduate: B.S. in Aquatics Recreation
- Former USMC instructor
- Former Los Angeles County Aquatics Director
- Former Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Deputy Coroner and Aquatics Investigator
- Trained police, coroners, firefighters, boat captains, lifeguards, and the physically handicapped in specialized underwater techniques
Cases Investigated by Accident Type
- Alligator attacks and shark attacks
- Aquatic homicides
- Aquatic hypothermia and hyperthermia dangers
- Boat capsizing and sinking
- Boat collisions and propeller lacerations
- Body and tube impacts in wave pools
- Chemical imbalance and lack of water clarity
- Collision with flume or flange
- Defective pool gate or enclosure
- Diving or sliding into shallow water
- Douche injuries on speed slide runouts
- Drownings and near drownings
- Excessive spa water temperature
- Head/ankle injury from striking splash-pool bottom
- Hidden underwater drop offs and obstacles
- Horseplay
- In-flume injuries
- Intoxication, alcohol or drugs
- Lifeguard or staff negligence
- Neglectful supervision of children
- Parasailing accidents
- Pool and safety inadequacies
- PWC off-throttle steering loss
- SCUBA diving accidents, including equipment failure
- Slips and falls at aquatic facilities and on boat decks
- Spinal injuries from diving into shallow water
- Suction entrapment against drain grates
- Tow rope recoils and entanglements
- Underwater dive buddy separation
- Waterski bindings failure
- Waterslide and wave pool accidents
- Whipping of skier, kneeboarder, towable white water rafting accidents
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