The Risk of Selling Second-hand Dive Gear

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Have you ever sold an item of diving equipment you no longer needed? Did you check whether the buyer had the suitable skills to be able to use it safely?

In the adjacent story, Linnea Mills, the deceased, was encouraged by her instructor Debbie Snow, to purchase a used drysuit from Missoula diver Kendra Potter. The suit did not have an inflator hose, which contributed to Mills death. When the plaintiffs brought a wrongful death suit, Potter was named as a defendant....

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