Honeymoon Dive

Honeymoon Dive

by Jennifer Cooke and Lindsay Simpson
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 01/09/2010

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At 10.42 a.m. on 22 October 2003, while diving on the wreck of the SS Yongala on the Great Barrier Reef, an American tourist photographed his new wife for their honeymoon album. Instead the photo would become a vital police exhibit. On the right-hand side of the shot, Tina Watson's body lay 27 metres down on the ocean floor, one arm outstretched, reaching upwards. This is the photograph that shocked millions across Australia and the US.


How could a healthy young woman have died, a mere seven minutes into her dive, when Gabe Watson, her buddy and husband of only eleven days, was a certified rescue diver? And why did he later relay sixteen different versions of what happened that day to other divers, police, friends and family?


Did he cold-bloodedly shut off her air or did he panic after claiming her flailing arms dislodged his mask and regulator? When he ascended to the surface, was it to get help or to callously abandon his bride to her ultimate fate?


These remain the captivating questions at the heart of this true-life thriller. Researched across two continents, Honeymoon Dive is in turns disturbing and enthralling as it painstakingly reconstructs events behind one of Australia's most darkly fascinating tragedies.

ISBN:
9781742622354
9781742622354
Category:
True crime
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
01-09-2010
Language:
English
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan Australia
Lindsay Simpson

Dr Lindsay Simpson is the author and co-author of nine books including the bestselling Brothers in Arms, co-authored with Sandra Harvey, the subject of the television mini- series Bikie Wars. Her 2014 book Where is Daniel? written with parents Bruce and Denise Morcombe dealt with the disappearance of their son Daniel and the subsequent police investigation. Her novel The Curer of Souls was shortlisted for the Colin Roderick prize in 2007. at year, she also won with Sandra the Lifetime Achievement Award in the Australian Crime Writers Association Ned Kelly Awards for her contribution to crime writing.

Lindsay was an investigative journalist for The Sydney Morning Herald from 1983 to 1995. She spent 13 years as an academic as the inaugural Head of Journalism and Media Studies at the University of Tasmania and headed the multimedia journalism degree at James Cook University. She started postgraduate writing degree programs at both universities. She now writes fulltime and lives in the Whitsundays with her husband Grant. They have their own tourism business running two sailing boats, Providence V and MiLady around the islands.

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