BSR Covers Up Evidence in Surfer’s Death, Lawyer Alleges
The lawyer representing the parents of Fabrizio Stabile, the surfer who died from the brain-eating amoeba after surfing BSR Surf Ranch, said BSR officials covered up evidence by “hyper chlorinating" the pool the night before health officials started their investigation.
The lawyer claims that by adding chlorine to the pool, the BSR officials skewed the test results. Fass continued to say health department documents he has obtained indicate the high level of chlorine in the surf pool during testing.
This claim adds to the dramatic case already being pursued by Stabile’s family which seeks $1 million from BSR Surf Resort for the death of Stabile. The original lawsuit alleges “BSR’s blue-green dyed waves masked a pathogen soup in which Naegleria fowleri amoeba — ‘the brain-eating amoeba’ — could thrive.”
Shortly after the death, CDC tests found Naegleria fowleri in BSR’s cable park section but not in the Surf Resort according to an October 2018 CDC report. However, the CDC reported favorable conditions for the amoeba, and the presence of other amoebas that thrive in similar conditions, in other attractions.
BSR has since installed a $2 million, “state-of-the-art” filtration system which was approved by Texas Department of State Health Services and the Waco-McLennan County Public Health District, Parsons said.
Further complicating the matters are claims that Stuart Parsons Jr., owner of BSR Surf Ranch, is interfering in the discovery process by claiming text messages and emails potentially important to the plaintiffs’ case were lost when Parsons dropped his cellphone in Lake Whitney.
The trial date is set for January 27, 2020.
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