The criminal trial into the White Island disaster has heard GNS Science changed how it assessed risk to its own staff after a "near miss", but the volcano monitor did not have a role in passing advice to the owners of Whakaari. On Wednesday, the court heard Prosecutor Kristy McDonald question Dr Jolly on the details of the current GNS …
Legal action is being pursued against Royal Caribbean cruise line over last year's deadly volcano eruption in New Zealand as extraordinary new details of the effort to rescue survivors are revealed. Ms Yousef said Royal Caribbean told the passengers on the Ovation of the Seas "absolutely nothing" about the possibility or the risks of an eruption. "There are accounts of …
CNN — There were families on holiday. All there to see one thing: the uninhabited moonscape of New Zealand’s most active volcano, White Island. “I have always felt that it was too dangerous to allow the daily tour groups that visit the uninhabited island volcano by boat and helicopter.” How New Zealand’s warning system works In the weeks before the …