Parents to lay flowers for Leila

JANESSA EKERT a cardiac arrhythmia. Her mother Janet Trott said she found this information “really difficult to believe”.

“She was fanatical about her health,” she said.

“I find it hard to accept that there was a 75 per cent blockage when there were no signs of it. In my mind I still think it could be Irukandji.”

Mrs Trott believes there should be rescue facilities at Green Island.

“If the water police stationed a boat out there with one or two crew, it would save a lot of people,” she said. “We’re pretty upset.” They will arrive in Cairns next week from Adelaide and plan to scatter flowers at the site where their daughter died.

An Australian Maritime Safety Authority spokesman said the organisation had spoken to the heads of workplace safety authorities and started reviewing the memorandums of understanding (MOUs) it had with all state and territory workplace safety authorities.