:watermark(https://f.pmo.ee//logos/5327/cf39aec33e583b7d1f325d7eab54a133.png,-2p,-2p,0,18,none)/nginx/o/2023/09/19/15602081t1h1a8d.jpg "The Disappearance of Tom and Aileen Lonergan: A Tragic Dive Adventure in the Great Barrier Reef")
On January 25, 1998, Tom and Aileen Lonergan, a married American couple, went diving with a group of tourists in a dive boat from Port Douglas, Australia to St. Crispin’s Reef, a popular diving site in the Great Barrier Reef. There were 26 passengers on the boat through the diving company Outer Edge. The boat’s captain, Geoffrey Nairn, guided them to their destination, an ocean dive site 40 kilometers off the coast of Queensland. Upon arrival, the passengers donned scuba gear and jumped into the Coral Sea. What happened next to Tom and Aileen is not entirely clear.
After about 40 minutes of exciting diving, Tom and Aileen surfaced. Above them was a clear, blue sky, but all around, all the way to the horizon, was only a bluish sheet of water. The boat was nowhere to be found, and the two disoriented divers began to sense that the team had abandoned them. “Forgetting” divers in the ocean isn’t necessarily a death sentence, but in this case, the time it took for someone to notice that Tom and Aileen hadn’t returned to the boat was too long.
2023-09-20 21:00:00
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