He got into difficulties because of the cold and the strength of the currents.
He was swept out of the pool and died. In September last year, Ellis pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was jailed.
Ellis's trade union, the National Association of Schoolmasters/Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT), refuses to comment on the case. But its advice to members on educational visits is clear: don't take them. It blames our "increasingly litigious society", which it says "no longer appears to accept the concept of a genuine accident".
Who is responsible?
Few youth workers want to make public statements on such a sensitive case. Privately many question the idea that what happened to Max was an accident.
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