DALLAS, Texas — The parents of a 12-year-old girl who drowned during a scuba certification training dive in North Texas have filed a sweeping wrongful death lawsuit against multiple dive shops, instructors, and two of the world’s largest scuba certification organizations.
Heather and Mitchell Harrison filed the 40-page lawsuit Friday in Dallas County district court, individually and as representatives of their daughter’s estate, alleging their child’s death was “senseless and entirely preventable” and caused by “systemic safety failures that have plagued the scuba diving industry for years.
According to the petition, the child drowned on August 16, 2025, during an open-water scuba certification training dive at The Scuba Ranch in Terrell while participating in an entry-level course developed by the National Association of Underwater Instructors (NAUI) and conducted by Scubatoys Enterprises, a Carrollton-based dive shop…