Should the venue bear full responsibility for a fatal accident at the Shark Aquarium?

If a fatal accident occurs at the shark aquarium, the venue should bear responsibility as appropriate.

The incident: In August 2020, a death occurred at the Happy World Shark Museum in Tianzhushan, Fujian, resulting in the death of one person. A special investigation team has been set up locally. After police investigation, the cause of his death was drowning while experiencing a diving project in the shark aquarium, not being bitten by a shark.

The venue’s promotional slogan and protective measures: The venue’s promotional slogan is: Stepping into the Shark Kingdom, you will be impressed by the Guinness World Record’s largest acrylic panel, the underwater giant screen. The scene seen on the giant screen is the ultimate visual feast, an immersive underwater roaming. Come to Ocean World for fun, don’t miss it!? The protective measures set up in the museum include: anti-shark swimsuits worn by tourists The sharks are artificially fed and non-aggressive, and customers are informed of diving precautions in advance.

Diving requirements for the human body: Tourists who go diving should judge their physical condition according to the venue prompts, such as well-developed limbs and no disabilities, no infectious diseases, no colds, no neurosensitivity, no ears and nose Diseases, no heart disease, no high (low) blood pressure, no drunkenness, no diabetes and no chest surgery. The body cannot twitch from time to time, and tourists themselves need to be able to swim before diving.

Responsibility of the venue: The venue should bear the responsibility as appropriate. The reason is that some tourists are not suitable for diving. After seeing the diving requirements, they still want to play and they will hide the true condition of their bodies, which leads to In the case of diving accidents, the venue does not need to take full responsibility; there are also tourists who judge that they are physically suitable for diving, but due to the negligence of the diving instructor or problems with the oxygen device on their back, or the venue staff did not prepare the diving equipment before entering the water. The physical requirements of the project inform tourists that drowning and diving accidents may occur due to venue reasons. In this case, the venue will be fully responsible.

From the above reasons, we can know that the venue in this accident should bear responsibility based on the specific cause of drowning rather than directly taking full responsibility.