The parents of a 12-year-old North Texas girl have filed a wrongful death lawsuit claiming systemic safety failures led to her drowning during a scuba certification training dive at The Scuba Ranch in Terrell last August.
The civil complaint, filed this week in Texas court, names multiple dive shops, instructors and certification organizations, alleging preventable errors and inadequate supervision contributed to the tragedy that took the life of Dylan Harrison.
According to court filings and media reports, Dylan was participating in an open-water scuba certification class on Aug. 16, 2025, when she went missing underwater and was later found unresponsive; authorities and dive peers were unable to revive her.
The lawsuit claims poor visibility, insufficient training oversight and alleged lapses in basic safety checks — including improper weighting and failure to maintain close supervision — were factors in her death, and it argues that broader industry practices in the largely self-regulated dive training world allowed these conditions to persist.
The complaint also seeks broader accountability by targeting major certification bodies as well as the dive shop and instructors involved, highlighting concerns raised earlier in the case about training standards and safety culture within recreational scuba instruction.
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