That movie pisses me off. My son refuses to dive in salt water after watching that flick. I have went diving with sharks in the Key's and had a great time watching them in their element. That movie is pure speculation. Nobody knows what happened after the divers were left in the ocean. They were left in the open ocean for days. They most likely died of dehydration. The mental stress of the situation, with no hope must have been unbearable. Sharks probably didn't come into the picture until after they expired. The orgy of sharks in the movie is unrealistic, those sharks filmed in the movie were so passive that he actors could film around them without being bitten. But they were blood thirsy on-screen.
As far as the unfortunate couple, after returning to port, the skipper of the boat saw the unclaimed belongings of the divers, but went home anyway. There was a taxi cab waitting on the couple as instructed. When the cab driver asked where his fares were, he was told to leave, they must have gotten a different cab. At the trial, the dive shop tried to make the argument that the couple faked thier deaths to collect on insurance money, and that they weren't liable. They lost. The wet suit of the female washed up on a beach later. It was shredded, which led to the shark theory. It's possible that sharks could have killed the couple, but losts of scavengers could have fed on the body before the wetsuit washed up on the beach.
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Last edited by Terrax; 08-20-06 at 02:30 AM.
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