Apparently the owner of OzSail, Shannon Platt, is also the owner of this house featured on Channel 7 News, Thursday 3 January, 2013.
OzSail was the company that left two UK divers out on Bait Reef on 23 May 2008, an incident which is believed to have had a large influence in the drop in international visitors to the Whitsundays.
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| Interest in News articles about the Whitsundays since the OzSail incident. |
OzSail operates the boats:
Mandrake
Spank Me
The Avatar
The Matador
Editors Note: I now know where the 'neglect attitude' with the house originates from.
Original Story: 22 August 2009
Local business, AP Vessells, trading as OzSail, have been ordered to pay almost $30,000 (around 15,000 UK Pounds) in fines for leaving two English tourists stranded on a Whitsundays Reef overnight.
The Proserpine Industrial Magistrates' Court yesterday fined AP Vessells, trading as OzSail for 'failing to ensure the safety of Allyson Dalton and Richard Neely'.
Dalton and Neely are two certified divers, and were amongst 20 passengers on the Pacific Star (pictured) which anchored at Bait Reef, near Hayman Island, on May 23, 2008.
A major search resulted in the succesful rescue of the couple, 19 hours after the alert was raised.
The Airlie Beach based company has been fined $25,000 (about 12,500 UK Pounds) and ordered to pay nearly $5,000 (about 2,500 UK Pounds) in costs, however no conviction was recorded. The owner, Shannon Platt, was apparently unavailable for comment.
On May 26 last year, the Adelaide Advertiser reported: 'Tourism Whitsundays chief executive Peter O'Reilly said the spectacular headlines, particularly in UK newspapers, could reaffirm Australia as the place for adventure tourism, which was a huge drawcard for the European market.'
Sourced from ABC News - Sigrid Brown - Full Story
Comments sourced from AdelaideNow / The Advertiser - Jessica Marszalek
Comments sourced from Brisbane Times - AAP
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