British teenager killed by speedboat while snorkelling on round-the-world trip, inquest told

Edward Jarman had been snorkelling near his family’s anchored boat facing the beach when he was hit by a driver, a local lagoon guide, who had rented the more than five-metre vessel for the day - (AFP/Getty)

A teenager on a round-the-world sailing trip with his family died after being struck by the propellers of a “fast-moving, unlicensed speedboat” when he was snorkelling in the South Pacific, an inquest has concluded.

Edward Jarman, known as Eddie to his family, was hit in the head and chest by a three-tonne, semi-rigid inflatable boat in Mo’orea Bay, near Tahiti in French Polynesia, on 9 August 2020.