Hmmm... I think the incident that is based on happened in Queensland to a couple of tourists in 1998... but the movie is still fiction as the people didn't make it abck to tell the story they have here :\
There was a suggestion that the people faked their own dissapearance at the time too.. (although I dont think anyone believes that now)
http://outside.away.com/outside/features/2...ysteries_2.html
Quote:
Divers left at sea
In far north Queensland, the skipper of a dive boat was charged with manslaughter after a coroner found that two United States divers had been left behind on the Great Barrier Reef in January.
Thomas Lonergan, aged 34, and his 29-year-old wife Eileen, from Baton Rouge in Louisiana, were not reported missing until two days after they were last seen on a dive with the Outer Edge boat at St Crispin Reef about 38 nautical miles north-east of Port Douglas.
A coronial inquest found it was impossible to know exactly when and where the Lonergans perished, but Cornoner Noel Nunan found they had probably died by shark attack or drowning within two or three days of being accidentally left behind.
Mr Nunan also made safety recommendations for the dive industry and a State Government established taskforce is due to deliver its final findings on changes to dive industry practices in 1999.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/features/1998/qld.htm
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I am guessing that you aren't planning a holiday down under soon TE?
