Abandoned On a Dive Trip and Lost Forever | Last Moments
When you’re stranded at sea, it’s only a matter of time before you perish. But how do you go?
“Thomas Joseph Lonergan (born December 28, 1964) and Eileen Cassidy Lonergan (née Hains; born March 3, 1969) were a married American couple who were unintentionally abandoned in the Coral Sea off Australia’s northeast coast on January 25, 1998, during a group scuba diving trip on MV Outer Edge. Their absences were not noted by the boat crew until two days later on January 27 and while search efforts resulted in the discovery of personal effects presumed to be those of the Lonergans, they did not lead to their discovery. Their whereabouts are unknown, though both are presumed dead.
The couple’s disappearance and deaths resulted in “a crisis of confidence in north Queensland’s dive industry” and resulted in tighter mandatory safety regulations for diving boats in Australia. Their disappearances also served as the inspiration for the 2003 film Open Water.”
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October 12, 2025 at 8:43 pm
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@jademallows6144
October 12, 2025 at 8:43 pm
Heeeere Fishy fishy fishy, because That is what you now are Dinner. Sad but true. 😳👍🇬🇧
@Greatermaxim
October 12, 2025 at 8:43 pm
The sea is ruthless. Don't ignore ice berg warnings or ideal weather. Anything can get ya.
@msmith8401
October 12, 2025 at 8:43 pm
Lol bro really liked them glasses
@classicaldeb
October 12, 2025 at 8:43 pm
No one else in the group noticed their absence, for two entire days? How ignorant and daft are human beings? 😞
@bradley5819
October 12, 2025 at 8:43 pm
One time a woman survived dehydration by her husband pumping saltwater up her arse the colon separates the salt.
@herbivorethecarnivore8447
October 12, 2025 at 8:43 pm
6:34
This image upsets me so much. The audio definitely doesn't help but knowing those people were out there long enough to write that message and then slowly die is so viscerally upsetting.
@awesomesauce8969
October 12, 2025 at 8:43 pm
May they both rest in peace.
@user-fed-yum
October 12, 2025 at 8:43 pm
Divers were abandoned in Perth Australia on 8 April 2025. They were rescued by a passing ferry. Hard to believe this could happen nowadays.
@danko6582
October 12, 2025 at 8:43 pm
This happened to me in Guam. Shoddy operator. Worst ever dive master. Left 2 buddy pairs in the open ocean and sailed for home without so much as a headcount or a wave goodbye.
They also risked the lives of all those who they boarded before leaving.
Don't dive with operators who do large numbers of new divers.
@jfried05
October 12, 2025 at 8:43 pm
Pure incompetence on the part of the dive company.
@aridddle
October 12, 2025 at 8:43 pm
The company is the worst. Not only do you not realize you left two passengers but you don't even realize that you're missing 2 sets of equipment that day. It took them 3 days to realize that.
@michaelhill6451
October 12, 2025 at 8:43 pm
The simplest explanation is usually the right one. The fact the crew didn't even notice the couple's bag on the boat for two days or that dive gear as missing, leads me to believe it was negligence pure and simple. It's like the story of the skydiver who forgot to wear a parachute. If you do something that is dangerous for long enough, you get complacent.
@Reinier_83
October 12, 2025 at 8:43 pm
A film is based on this case: Open Water 2003
@cajunmane7272
October 12, 2025 at 8:43 pm
be careful with what you wish for I guess
@SevenSixTwo2012
October 12, 2025 at 8:43 pm
As little as 80 years ago, the sailors worst fear was to end up in the water with sharks. They preferred drowning, hence why many couldn't swim. Today, people pay good money to be brought in the middle of an ocean and become potential shark bait. Crazy times.
@jonmiller4361
October 12, 2025 at 8:43 pm
5:59 them barnacle experts got that shit down to the day😅
@rubyk445
October 12, 2025 at 8:43 pm
The boat shouldn't leave them
@MosquitoValentineNH
October 12, 2025 at 8:43 pm
See that shark turd? There they are!
@LigitandMeyers
October 12, 2025 at 8:43 pm
I am suspect of the outcome. That divers with their level of abilities, do not know how to tred and float indefinatly, is suspect from the get-go. That these "Weakened" people were able to write not only legibly…but to write legibly, with corect spacing and correct ROW spacing..while floating or treding? that some mystical force removed oelvic cradles or rib cages from wetsuits OR in a state of delirium….they just cast them off because 1 said HEY! LET'S TRY THIS! And other other said OK! ?
Too much of it seems like its flopped towards a specific view.
@Experternas
October 12, 2025 at 8:43 pm
i remember this one, they made an episode of I shouldn't be alive of it.
@PexilEffex
October 12, 2025 at 8:43 pm
What song was playing right at the start?
@somethingsomething404
October 12, 2025 at 8:43 pm
when i was off Cozumel in Mexico snorkeling the boat left, not sure how far it went but it was alarming until it came back
@KatieAshley-c5u
October 12, 2025 at 8:43 pm
So mono tone lol
@karlmel15
October 12, 2025 at 8:43 pm
feckin a mate whats goin on with that scar on the nose. get punched er what
@gotbaka3
October 12, 2025 at 8:43 pm
Not guilty!? That is insanity
@mr.iforgot3062
October 12, 2025 at 8:43 pm
As a homosexual man I agree with having stricter policies for diving. Im a gay man, I would want to be saved too.
@nineofnine
October 12, 2025 at 8:43 pm
Dear Mr Qxir,
What happened to your right ear?
I have a similar scar from skin cancer.
Just wondered.
Cheers and love ur stuff
@Tanouuuu
October 12, 2025 at 8:43 pm
I don't know what they were smoking but it must have been real good. Smh unbelievable.
@zimmerman1031
October 12, 2025 at 8:43 pm
Was the crew drunk or something? How do you screw up this badly? How can you possibly that negligent with the people you are catering to?
@markskaggs5493
October 12, 2025 at 8:43 pm
"Not guilty my ass". Fuck Australias'' Courts.
@Studeb
October 12, 2025 at 8:43 pm
Seems like people who should be in jail for leaving them there had incentives to come up with any other reason why they would have killed themselves, evil.
@13donstalos
October 12, 2025 at 8:43 pm
Plenty of people are suicidal, but none of them would actually want to get left out in the open ocean to die of exposure. For God's sake, that's like torture. People want to die to escape suffering.
@See_B_S
October 12, 2025 at 8:43 pm
Sucked to be them Lol
@AzArchivista
October 12, 2025 at 8:43 pm
Using a whisle that you can mostly only hear above the water for gathering scuba divers is a great idea…
Anonymous
October 12, 2025 at 8:43 pm
PLB, backup light, DSMB, Fluoresceine, signal mirror, knife,prayers and massive lawsuit if survived. What an awful way to die😢
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