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Left Behind in Blue Water: The Unthinkable Disappearance of Tom and Eileen Lonergan on the Great Barrier Reef On a bright January day in 1998, American couple Tom and Eileen Lonergan stepped onto a dive boat in Cairns, Australia, bound for the shimmering beauty of the Great Barrier Reef. They logged their tanks, checked their gear, and entered the water with dozens of other divers. The boat came back without them. By the time anyone realized the mistake, the Lonergans had been adrift for nearly two days in open ocean. What followed was a frantic search, a trail of haunting clues-including a dive slate that read ""Please help us... we have been abandoned""-and a criminal case that shook Australia's dive industry to its core. Left Behind in Blue Water is a deeply researched, human-centered account of one of the most haunting maritime tragedies of modern times. True-crime author Linda Davidson reconstructs the Lonergans' final journey-from their idealistic years in the Peace Corps to their last dive on St. Crispin Reef-while tracing how a cascade of small oversights turned a routine excursion into a preventable disaster. Inside, you'll follow: The last hours Tom and Eileen were seen alive on the Outer Edge dive boat The massive air-and-sea search that began only after it was almost too late The chilling artifacts the ocean slowly returned-and what they reveal The investigation and trial that exposed fatal gaps in safety and regulation The lasting impact on their families, the diving world, and Great Barrier Reef tourism For readers of thoughtful, victim-focused true crime, Left Behind in Blue Water is not just a story of how two divers died. It is a story of how they were lost-and how their disappearance changed the rules of the sea forever.

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