I have personal experience with Greece trying very hard to manage the public impression of safety in Greek waters. They understand that tourism is a key source

I have personal experience with Greece trying very hard to manage the public impression of safety in Greek waters. They understand that tourism is a key source of income do do some positive things try and keep it safe but they will also go to lengths to hide places where it might look bad. The event I'm talking about is this one: https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/mar/22/world.travelnews https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/mar/22/world.travelnews (an article which seems got the detail mostly right, which is unusual for anything I have direct knowledge of). I worked in that same resort teaching sailing the subsequent year (while legal proceedings were still pending), working with almost everyone named in the article. So from them and speaking to the RYA I have some detail (that I'm confident in) as to what happened. It was light winds, and three girls were sailing a catamaran and for a bit of fun were trapezing on both sides of the boat. The boat capsized and turned completely over. One of the girls ended up under the boat, became entangled in the trapeze wire and got her trapeze hook caught in the trampoline (canvas 'deck' of the catamaran). This meant that she was trapped underwater, and held there by various bits of metal that couldn't easily be cut. The rescue boats got there pretty quickly, but couldn't get her out. Colin gave her oxygen mouth to mouth while she slowly drowned. This was a pretty freak accident. There were some improvements to general safety procedures that came out of it (carry heavy duty wire snips in rescue boats, training in how to rapidly right boats that had turtled, also some trapeze harness designs that release the hook), but I can't see anything that the beach or rescue teams did wrong. If the same incident had happened at almost any other watersports centre the results would have been the same. That didn't stop the Greek's from prosecuting (and finding guilty) the watersports manager and deputy manager for negligence. From what we can tell that was politically motivated because it was a story that gained publicity and Greece wanted to protect the reputation of their watersports industry.