6/18/2023 0 Comments Breakwaters guideIn 2016, the foundation tried to get state permission to demolish the huge breakwater that created the swimming hole. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.) (Doris Duke Photograph Collection, DDCF Historical Archives, David M. Photo taken in 1937 showing the coast before the shoreline was altered with breakwaters and the swimming area. And hiring security guards, which she said the jumpers either verbally abused or ignored. She was a staff member in 2014 when the Doris Duke foundation waged a safety campaign to prevent injuries by erecting multiple warning signs and installing the $160,000 fence which kids now clamber up for even higher jumping. We are completely supportive of the stateʻs effort to provide needed safety enhancements and restore the shoreline to its original and natural state,” said Lea Major in a phone interview Saturday. Major is the museum’s deputy director. “It is only a matter of time before there’s another life-threatening injury at the basin. According to the museum, many of the swimmers have been seen climbing the fence to fling themselves into the water. Louie is retained now as an attorney for the Doris Duke Foundation to provide legal advice on safety issues and address legal points raised by opponents seeking to stop the state from dismantling the breakwater.Ībout 50 to 130 people come to the harbor basin each day with more on the weekends. ![]() And there will always be juries wondering what was so hard about trying to make a place safer.” The real problem is there will always be an enterprising lawyer wanting to sue in behalf of a terribly injured person. When people get hurt they want to blame someone. The museum has photos over the years to prove it. He said in a phone interview Sunday the area where the basin is has to be made safer. Louie later became the Hawaii Attorney General in 2011-2014. The Doris Duke Foundation settled lawsuits for negligence from Corpuz and Machado-Avilla for undisclosed amounts believed to be millions of dollars.Īttorney David Louie defended the foundation against the lawsuit by Fredman Corpuz in 1993. In 2011, Alan Kepoʻomaikalani Machado-Avilla, who was 17 years old, broke his neck diving head first into the shallow water. Taken during a DNLR site visit July 2020. In 1993, Fredman Corpuz, then 15 years old, was rendered a quadriplegic after injuries from his dive into the harbor.Ī man dives into the former boat basin fronting the Shangri La mansion. He died in 2008 from complications from his paralysis. Popular University of Hawaii Hawaiian studies professor George Terry Kanalu Young broke his spinal cord and was paralyzed from the neck down at age 15 when he dove headfirst into four feet of water at the harbor in 1969. Over the years, young daredevils who love swimming in the harbor have injured themselves seriously by diving headfirst into the shallow former boat basin. Three teenagers in separate diving incidents were rendered quadriplegic. ![]() The state Department of Land and Natural Resources is making the current application because it formally accepted ownership and liability for the harbor improvements and submerged lands in a quitclaim deed from the Doris Duke Foundation in September 2018. That was despite BLNR being advised by staff not to saddle taxpayers with the liability that would come with ownership. ![]() The board in two separate votes in 2018 rejected a practically identical application from the Doris Duke Foundation, the body that operates the museum This will be the third time such an appeal has been made to BLNR. ![]() Young people keep dangerously diving and jumping into the harbor basinʻs often shallow waters. Young swimmers climb the fence at the Shangri La boat basin.
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