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Race Did Not Require Life Vests, Court Told

Monday August 30, 1993
Two crewmen who drowned in a Moomba dragon boat race on the Yarra River were not required to wear life vests, the Coroner's Court was told yesterday. Mr Kooi Huat Lim, the team captain, said the Moomba Dragon Boat Festival, on 14 March, was the only dragon boat event, in his experience of interna