Rafting fatality: 'Standard procedures were in place'

The general manager of a Queenstown tourism company says he and his staff are devastated after a rafter was swept away and died. The man was one of a group of six Australians whose raft overturned in Skippers Canyon on Saturday. Totally Tourism general manager Tim Barke told RNZ reporter Sally Murphy a safety kayak helped the group to the shore but one man lost his grip and was swept through another rapid.