Experts testified months later that the sharks probably moved in that evening, circling the couple, and the Lonergans probably didn’t live long. ‘Diaries reveal the tortured thoughts of Tom and Eileen’ – The Age, November 28 ,1999 ‘Missing divers: skipper cleared of manslaughter’ – The Age, November 25, 1999 ‘The story behind new film Open Water’ – The Guardian, July 22, 2004 ‘Diving for cover over deaths’ – The Australian, October 14, 2004 Le 25 janvier 1998, Tom et Eileen Lonergan, deux plongeurs américains, ont quitté Port Douglas en Australie pour une expédition de plongée sur la Grande Barrière de Corail. Kentis, also a diver, said he was “appalled, disgusted and horrified” when he heard about their deaths in 1998. The past few years have been hard on her. Durant leur croisière de plongée en novembre 2013, le bateau de plongée a abandonné les deux plongeurs et leur instructeur lorsqu’ils étaient sous l’eau après que le bateau ait eu des problèmes moteur. They live here. A couple committing suicide together in a hotel room? He said he wanted people to watch the movie and wonder how they would react if they were left behind in the ocean. We do need more than a screenshot of a poster if it is a missing persons case. C’est un pire cauchemar pour tout plongeur, et vous pourriez penser que de nos jours un tel accident soit impossible, mais dans ces 7 cas cela est vraiment arrivé… et aussi récemment qu’en 2013. People would forget about that. The Lonergans were adventurous world travelers who had spent their last few years working for the Peace Corps in the South Pacific. Pendant 19 heures, l’anglais Richard Neely et sa petite-amie américaine Alison Dalton sont restés accrochés l’un à l’autre tout en dérivant dans les iles Australiennes de Whitsunday, abandonnés par leur expédition de plongée. With that in mind, not being included in the headcount would’ve been absolute help to their plan, but if the crew aboard the Outer Edge noticed would their plan still have been successful? People wanted to know if Betsy Lonergan … Maybe that's exactly what they wanted. Ils ont fait surface après 55 minutes dans la première plongée pour découvrir que leur bateau avait disparu. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Ce n’est que bien plus tard, quand les affaires personnelles du couples ont été découvertes à bord, que leur absence a été remarquée. Kentis did not use their names, and distributor Lions Gate says the movie is based on “true events” and not one single event.
Tom Lonergan’s entire journal was like that, and both wrote of how they hated their jobs. Both Tom and Eileen kept personal journals which were discovered amongst their belongings in the hostel the contents of which were increasingly disturbing.