A coroner finds Isaiah Dixon, Bree-Anna Thomas and Thomas Courto's drownings off Tasmania's north-west coast to be 'wholly avoidable'.
Three Tasmanian friends set out to sea after a night of drinking in 2021 and never returned, with a coroner finding they drowned.
In his report, released on Tuesday, Mr Cooper said Mr Courto and Mr Dixon arrived at the Wharf Hotel in Wynyard where Ms Thomas was working at 3pm on Sunday October 17, and "spent the rest of the afternoon and evening in the bar drinking and socialising". Mr Cooper found they left the Wynyard Yacht Club at 10am, stopping at the beach at Boat Harbour after a couple of hours, before embarking again.Two days later, searchers found Mr Dixon's and Ms Thomas's bodies on the shore between Table Cape and the mouth of the Inglis River, neither wearing a personal floatation device .
"There is no evidence that adverse weather conditions, the lack of a seaworthy boat or the actions of a third party caused or contributed to the deaths of Mr Dixon, Ms Thomas and Mr Courto."Having regard to the evidence as a whole, it is my firm opinion that Mr Dixon, Ms Thomas and Mr Courto should not have been on the water that day.Mr Cooper said there was no direct evidence to give a definite conclusion as to why the boat sank.
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