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The Polytechnic tutor and two students climbed down to the scene of the accident, while the other conservation officer and another student went for help. The second group reached the point where the platform had been almost immediately after it collapsed. One student later described how he “rode” the platform down, holding onto the handrail. The larger group of 18, including the Punakaiki Field Centre officer, reached the viewing platform first.Īt 11:25am, as the 18 people moved onto the platform, it tipped off its base and fell onto the boulders and rocks of the creek-bed below, taking the victims with it.
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On 28 April, 1995, a group of students and tutors from the outdoor recreation course at Tai Poutini Polytechnic in Greymouth visited the site as part of a field trip to study the limestone formations and caves in the area.Īs the party walked into the bush, it split into two groups. The platform was built so that visitors could look down a 40-metre chasm to see the headwaters of Cave Creek come out from an underground cave system. In April 1994, Department of Conservation workers finished constructing a viewing platform which was built out over a cliff at Cave Creek, in the Paparoa National Park. As a result 14 people lost their lives and the other four were injured, some very seriously. The platform collapsed and fell about 30 metres into the “resurgence” below - the place where the water from the cave returned to the surface. On 28 April 1995, 17 students from the Outdoor Recreation course at Tai Poutini Polytechnic at Greymouth and the Department of Conservation’s Punakaiki Field Centre Manager crowded onto the viewing platform high above Cave Creek in Paparoa National Park on the West Coast of the South Island.