President's Connection With The Death of UK Singer Kirsty Maccoll
The company's President, Guillermo González Nova, was the owner and pilot of the speedboat Percalito at the time when the speeding boat ran into and killed British singer-songwriter Kirsty MacColl whilst she was scuba-diving near the Chankanaab reef, off Mexico's Yucatán peninsula on 18 December 2000. According to the singer's mother Jean, who set up and ran the "Justice for Kirsty" campaign until 2009, González Nova was the only licensed pilot aboard the boat at the time of her daughter's death.
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