Calypso water park faces new lawsuits
Posted Jul 8, 2014 03:55:25 PM.
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OTTAWA — Canada’s largest water park is in more legal hot water, with new lawsuits filed by patrons.
Katherine Noah from Ottawa was at Calypso water park in July 2012, when she says a lack of water at the end of a ride caused her to be flung off a raft and onto a concrete pool deck.
Noah has photos of large, red scrapes across her lower back and large bruises on the backs of her legs.
Noah says she still lives with the effects of what happened to her, two years later. She says she’s unable to go more than a week or two without special exercises, or severe pain will return — so severe, she says, it leaves her nauseated.
She says no longer skates, skis or snowboards, for fear of falling and her pain returning.
Noah’s suit asks for $1.75 million in damages.
In a second lawsuit, a woman from north of Peterborough says she was sucked underwater, twice, in Calypso’s wave pool in July 2010. In her claim, Katherine Stokes says her head was smashed against the side of pool several times, resulting in a brain injury.
Two other suits claim that a group of people were over-served alcohol and that led to a violent encounter.
None of the claims have been proven in court.
Noah says she spoke with Ontario’s Technical Standards and Safety Authority, which has laid 20 charges against Calypso in a series of incidents and injuries at the park. Calypso heads to court on those charges in September.
