court he was only the “taxi driver”. Andrew Cuthbertson said his responsibility when taking experienced divers on his vessel was to “get them where they want to go”.Lex Warner, 50, lost his life in 2012 after taking part in a deep dive to a shipwreck from Cuthbertson’s Orkney -based boat.
Cuthbertson said Lex stated, “Get me in the f***ing water”, despite Lex suffering an on-board fall moments earlier.Lex’s widow Debbie Warner pursued damages against Cuthbertson’s Scapa Flow Charters (SFC) but the case was “time-barred”.The couple’s nine-year-old son Vincent was later allowed to mount the action instead, which accuses SFC of negligence over Lex’s death.
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