Newsgroup: it.arti.cinema
Titolo: [Tratto] Open water

Trovato questo riassunto, dove mi pare di capire che ci sono diverse 
ipotesi, il film le segue un pò tutte se vogliamo :-)
IT'S A DIVERS WORST NIGHTMARE: Miles from shore, you surface to find 
your charter boat nowhere in sight. You call for help, but there's no 
response. There are no outcroppings to hold on to. You hope that someone 
realizes their mistake before it's too late.
This is what presumably happened to Eileen and Tom Lonergan on January 
25, 1998, at St. Crispin's Reef, a popular dive site on the Great 
Barrier Reef, 25 miles off the coast of Queensland, Australia. The 
Lonergans, diving veterans from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, had gone out 
with the Port Douglas, Queensland-based scuba boat Outer Edge. Stories 
vary, but at the end of the day, the crew did a head count and came up 
with only 24 of their 26 clients. Someone pointed out two young divers 
who had jumped in to swim off the bow, and the crew, assuming that they 
had missed them, adjusted the count to 26. With the swimmers on board, 
the Outer Edge headed back to port.
Two days later, Geoffrey Nairn, the boat's skipper, discovered Eileen 
and Tom's personal belongings in the Outer Edge's lost-property bin, 
including Tom's wallet, glasses, and clothes. Concerned, he called the 
owner of the Gone Walkabout Hostel, in Cairns, where the couple had been 
staying, to see if they had returned. They had not. A five-day search 
began, which turned up no trace of Eileen or Tom. After more than 48 
hours in the ocean, the couple may have drowned, or been eaten by 
sharks. But as the chilling story broke, other theories emerged. One is 
that they committed suicide, or a murder-suicide took place. Journals in 
their hotel room hinted at personal troubles, but the couple were devout 
Catholics with good prospects. Tom, 33, and Eileen, 28, had just come 
off a three-year tour of duty with the Peace Corps in Tuvalu and Fiji 
and were en route to Hawaii, where they hoped to settle down.
Another scenario has the Lonergans using the dive boat as part of an 
elaborate hoax to fake their deaths. Jeanette Brenthall, owner of a 
bookshop in Port Douglas, believes the couple came into her store on 
January 27, two days after their dive trip. The pair was also reportedly 
sighted in a hotel in downtown Darwin. Reports of a boat less than a 
mile from St. Crispin's Reef seem to support theories that the couple 
was picked up. But the Lonergans' bank accounts were never touched, and 
no one ever collected on their insurance policies. A few weeks after 
they'd gone missing, some of their personal dive gear washed up on a 
beach 75 miles from the dive site. Six months later, a weathered dive 
slate—a device used to communicate underwater—with contact information 
for Eileen's father and the words PLEASE HELP US OR WE WILL DIE. JANUARY 
26, 8:00 A.M., was found floating in the same vicinity as the gear.
In November 1999, Geoffrey Nairn was tried on manslaughter charges and 
acquitted; he believes the jury felt he shouldn't be blamed for a 
mistake made by the entire crew. His company, Outer Edge Dive, was tried 
by a civil court in Queensland, pled guilty to negligence, and was 
fined. Nairn, who closed down Outer Edge Dive shortly thereafter, 
believes that the Lonergans died on the reef. "It was a tragedy, and 
I'll never get over it," he told Outside. "The highest probability is 
that Tom and Eileen are dead."
Back in Baton Rouge, Eileen's father, John Hains, also believes that the 
couple drowned after being accidentally left behind. "The Australian 
dive industry wanted to prove that Tom and Eileen faked their deaths," 
he says of the disappearance theories. "But the survival rate of being 
in the ocean with no place to go is nil."
probabile foto dei 2 sfortunati:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/features/1998/img/lonergans.jpg
o
http://peacecorpsonline.org/messages/imagefolder/lonergans.jpg
bò :o
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 realizes their mistake before it's too late.
Ci stiamo rincorrendo nel web ;-)
Dal Cyber Diver News Network:
http://www.cdnn.info/article/open_water/open_water.html
ciao
Andrea:_NQ

Noquarter wrote:
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ehehe, ma le 2 foto sono molto diverse, non sembrano manco loro :o
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Sul sito del film non fanno riferimento ad una vicenda in particolare,
riferendosi in generale ad "eventi accaduti": come diceva il
protagonista e' capitato che (con decine di persone magari sconosciuti)
ci si dimentichi o non si trovi qualcuno.
Un po' come e' capitato che qualcuno abbia detto "vado a comperare le
sigarette" e sia scomparso [troviamo 130K$ e ci facciamo un film?].
Poi la stampa (?) ha trovato la somiglianza con la vicenda della coppia
in Australia. Che tra l'altro non sembra sia diventata cibo per
squaletti. La muta e eqp. ritrovati non erano lacerati.
ciao!
Andrea:_NQ
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