TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — The father of a University of Alabama student who died during a scuba diving class has filed a wrongful death suit against the instructor, who also was charged in the death.

Christopher Moore, father of 21-year-old Zachary Moore, sued instructor Allison Rainey Gibson, 44, and the agency that issued her scuba certification.

The lawsuit was filed last week, two days before the woman was charged with criminally negligent homicide, a misdemeanor, in Zachary Moore’s death.

The suit, filed in Tuscaloosa County, claimed Gibson was at the opposite end of a pool giving a private lesson to someone who was not enrolled in the class when Moore died.

An attorney for Gibson did not return calls seeking comment.

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Information from: The Tuscaloosa News, http://www.tuscaloosanews.com