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in the Coral Sea off the coast of northern Queensland lies the Great Barrier Reef stretching 2300 kilometers
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along Australia's northeastern tip it covers an area of approximately three hundred and forty-four thousand square
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kilometres an underwater maze of almost 3000 individual reefs and more than 900 Islands the reef has the world's largest
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collection of coral and over 1,500 species of tropical fish reptiles and turtles seem clearly from space it is
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the largest living structure on earth it is a world heritage site and known as one of the seven natural wonders of the
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world tourists are drawn to the warm crystal-clear waters and bright tropical marine life a scuba divers paradise dive
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operators rely on the three million Australian dollars generated each year by the tourist market they provide
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everything from glass-bottom boat tours day snorkeling trips overnight adventures and for the more experienced
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divers extended cruises with daily scuba diving are remote locations [Music] one of the most famous shipwrecks of the
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reef is the SS young gala which disappeared in 1911 the young gala was a passenger ship which was enroute from
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Melbourne to Cannes its 99th voyage in Australian waters the ship had not yet been fitted with wireless messaging
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capabilities so when a tropical cyclone hit the captain had not received the signal to take refuge it sank taking all
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122 passengers and crew with it the wreck was not found for almost 50 years and when it was it was found in
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near-perfect condition it's known as one of the world's most intact and pristine
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shipwrecks the seafloor surrounding the shipwreck is fast and Sandy making the young Galah
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like an oasis in the desert it has created its own artificial reef which provides the perfect habitat for a
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diverse range of marine life soft corals and brightly colored schools of fish completely cover the vessel huge
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tropical fish seals and sea turtles swim in and out of the rooms and hallways lying just up the coast of Townsville it
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is protected under the Commonwealth historic shipwrecks act 1976 and is managed through the Museum of tropical
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queensland the ship is 107 meters long and allows just under 30 metres or near 100 feet below the surface with the
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upper section of the wreck approximately 16 metres below the water the site is considered one of the premier dives in
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Australia and one of the top dives in the world the sensory transformation of descending under the ocean is like
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nothing else on earth as you get the water sound stops completely until you hear the tremendous woosh of your breath
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through your breathing gear and to the bleeping sounds of bubbles surrounding you your vision adjusts to the field of
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life then the dull sometimes echoing sea on screaming to your ears the clicking and crunching of fish eating the coral
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and to their distant groans and drumming sounds of fish you can't yet see it's then your site takes over taking in
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the iridescent subtropical sea life and plant life unlike anything on land divers describe
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humpback whales sometimes greeting in the distance as they prepare to dive for younger life
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dropping down into one of the most amazing underwater sights imaginable divers say underwater photos will never
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do it justice gliding through the wreck of the young gala with its 100 years of marine growth with the current pulling
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you along is a mesmerizing and haunting experience 122 souls were on board lost forever
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Tina Watson was born on the 13th of February 1977 in Germany before moving to the United States as a baby on the
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24th of January 1980 she was legally adopted by Tommy and Cindy Thomas she spent her childhood in Walker County
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Alabama with her parents and her younger sister a lander they moved to Louisiana
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for a time before permanently moving to Birmingham Alabama in the late nineties Tina was happy and outgoing a blonde at
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the import Southern woman with a beaming smile they were a very close family who
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always knew what each other was doing Tommy and Cindy were very protective of their children keeping a close eye on
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them never letting them get into any trouble Tommy Thomas quote Tina was just the most beautiful girl both inside and
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out she could walk into a room and just light the whole place up she loved life and she made life fun
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she made life fun for all of us from a young age tina suffered from p SVT a heart condition essentially an overly
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rapid heartbeat which can cause palpitations fainting convulsions and if left untreated it can be deadly
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medication didn't help control Tina's PSV T and so she decided to have a minor surgery in 2001 when she was 24 this
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corrected the problem and she was in great shape after that with no more heart complications Tina had boyfriend's
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as a teenager and young adult and her first serious relationship resulted in a short engagement but according to her
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friends his mother Cindy didn't approve of the relationship and it ended shortly after
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after her engagement tina dated another guy for two to three years but this ended at the end of 2001 just before she
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started going out with gabe watson Gabe Watson was born David Gabriel Watson named after his father David he went to
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Hoover High School the largest High School in Alabama where he was known as a mild-mannered kid he was an average
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student who played sports and loved the water as a senior he was a star basketball ER after high school he chose
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to continue with his studies going to the University of Alabama in Birmingham he was tall at six foot three and
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broadly built his father David Watson quote I don't think he ever had a minute's trouble with anybody except
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maybe a poor grade and having a mum for a teacher it was just your typical middle-class kid Gabe's best friend
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described him as an easygoing laid-back and humorous person the type of person who could talk to anyone Gabe met Tina
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in class at the University of Alabama Tina had a boyfriend at the time but they still flirted and saw each other
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out at times Gabe had been keen on Tina for a while and asked her out on a few occasions but she always said no as she
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was seeing someone else on New Year's Eve in 2001 Tina and Gabe were at the same party apparently Gabe
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was in the good books as he had bought Tina a handbag on a trip to New York that she had actually once asked her
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boyfriend to get for her but by the time of this New Year's Eve party that were both single and after a fun night
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Tina great to go out with Gabe within a few weeks that were dating after graduation
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Tina started managing the children's clothing department first door in a local shopping mall while Gabe worked in
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his father's packaging business in Birmingham Gabe had a love for scuba diving and he introduced Tina to the
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sport he said that if they were going to be together then she'd have to adopt some of his hobbies and passions
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particularly diving and fishing this was a bit of a joke amongst their friends who never in a million years saw Tina as
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a diver in fact her best friend said she hated getting her hair wet when we would go swimming in high school she'd
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be doing this really crazy dog paddle swim just so that her head would stay above the water but everyone knew Tina
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loved Gabe so they put their doubts aside and thought Tina was just doing it for love she was content that it made
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him happy in January 2003 Tina told her parents she was going to start diving lessons they were vocal in
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their reservations they warned her about her heart condition and didn't understand why she would want to start
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diving just for Gabe they were all so vocal in their reservations about Gabe in general they felt he controlled Tina
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and Tommy didn't like the way that Gabe brushed off his concerns to be out Tina diving Tommy Thomas quote I had talked
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to him about my concern about the diving lessons about the fact that she had a heart problem as a child and he said if
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Tina wanted him to do the things that she liked to do she had to do the things that he wanted to do and he liked to
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dive so she needed to dive with him on February 10th 2003 after dating for a year
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Gabe phoned Tommy and asked if he could have permission to marry his daughter but Tommy said he would have to ask him
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in person five days later Gabe and Tommy met at books-a-million coffee shop in Hoover Alabama Gabe asked Tommy again
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for permission to marry Tina Tommy later stated that he never actually told Gabe it was okay for him
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to marry Tina friends said that Gabe had purchased an engagement ring but taunted
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and teased Tina with it dangling it like a carrot without proposing according to
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Gabe he was just trying to find the right moment to propose he also said there was added pressure because Tommy
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told him his proposal latina had to be perfect he finally found the moment and on April 20th 2003 he proposed it was
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Easter Sunday he set up an Easter egg hunt in the apartment and along the way she found a note asking her to marry him
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Gabe's family were overjoyed they had quickly adopted Tina into their family and were excited for their son's future
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they became very close in the lead-up to the wedding Tina's parents on the other
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hand still had reservations Tina told one of her co-workers at the time they're not greatly happy
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with him but you know I love him according to Tommy he asked Gabe if he loved Tina
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he said Gabe declined to answer and ignored the question Gabe even suggested that the term was a
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little corny but Tommy loved his daughter and she loved Gabe so they swallowed their trepidation and
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accepted the engagement the Thomases felt Gabe was a bit weird and admitted they just didn't have a good feeling
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about him if you ask Gabe or any of his friends they will tell you that he and his family just had a weird sense of
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humor the two families were just different Glenda Watson Gabe's mother call Tina's
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parents to invite them to dinner after the engagement Cindy Thomas responded what Tina is
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marrying into your family we're not interpretations of personalities differ some friends and
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family saw Gabe as rude and overbearing while others suggest he was just trying to deal with in-laws who didn't like him
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and showed it Tina and Gabe had a brief break up during their engagement but they got back together into their plans
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the web continued the date was set for October 2003 they purchased the home together in Hoover and spent a few weeks
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renovating it themselves before Gabe moved in and Tina stayed with her sister Tina wasn't planning to move in with
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Gabe until they were married on September 26 just a couple of weeks before the wedding
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Tina visited her parents and told her father that she needed to increase her group life insurance benefit Tommy
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Thomas quote I had been in insurance for 25 years and I had never come across a situation where a young
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soon-to-be-married couple were concerned about these matters Tina said that Gabe
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had told her that now they were getting married any policies she had should have
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him as the sole beneficiary Tommy told Tina that seeing as her insurance was up for REME Ruhlman in a few months time
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not to worry about it just address it then she had too much going on with the wedding it was a strange thing to be
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worrying about so close to the big day Tina was worried what she would tell Gabe if he asked Tommy said just tell
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him it's sorted then when you get back from your honeymoon in November we will take care of it
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Gabe and Tina attended pre marriage counseling with Reverend Craig Greer who was also preparing to marry them Tina
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was in therapy dealing with some family issues she admitted that sometimes she didn't want to do things with her
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parents since she would use Gabe as the excuse instead of admitting she didn't want to see them there was a time that
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Tina asked Gabe's parents if they would help to pay for the wedding if her parents wouldn't this park the
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assumption at the time that Tina's parents had threatened not to paid Reverend debris quote in my opinion it
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was Tina's first attempt to do what she wanted to do and they didn't like Gabe Tina at times used Gabe as an excuse not
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to do things with her family and she was upfront about that Gabe didn't mind he saw himself as her protector and became
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well known that Tina's parents were not happy about the upcoming wedding and that the tension came to a head at the
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rehearsal dinner Reverend gree quote I had done about 30 or 40 weddings at that time and it was
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the worst rehearsal I've ever seen everybody was on pins and needles Tina especially animosity aside the
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wedding went ahead on the morning of october 11th 2003 one year and eight months after they started dating
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Gabe and Tina were married Tommy picked two teen her up in a limo on the way to the church the chance to have his last
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father-daughter chat before she became a wife Tommy Thomas quote Tina and I had a
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very nice conversation on the way to the church I told her over and over how much
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that I loved her and that I wanted her to be happy I also told her that if she had any doubts about this she didn't
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have to do it and she told me she said that this is going to be a good day this is what I want I think I cried from then
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until all the way through the wedding I just had this fear this uncomfortable feeling that even though she had said
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she was sure that she wasn't and I truly felt like he wouldn't take care of her the way that she deserves to be taken
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care of Tina and Gav walked down the aisle at the Southside Baptist Church Birmingham Alabama the reception went
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off without a hitch and there were no reports of problems between the families of the wedding as the newlyweds left the
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reception they were showered with tears and the love Tommy Thomas quote the last
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time that I saw her was at the end of the wedding reception I ran to the elevator and I actually got my arm stuck
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in the door to force it back open shock would just grab her one more time and I told her that I loved her and then I
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looked at Gabe and I touched his arm and I said take care of my little girl and that's the last few seconds I had with
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her after annoyed in a hotel Gabe and Tina returned to their marital home the next day impact for their honeymoon they
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were leaving for Australia the following day the furthest either of them had ever
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been from home Gabe was an experienced driver he'd carried out over 50 dive since 1999 just before he started dating
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Tina he completed his rescue diving course with his good friend Mike Moore Gabe Mike and later Tina had learned to
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dive at the Bluewater quarry Cullen Alabama a defunct quarry filled with water and run as a scuba diving site
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with training and a shop under the water there are various vehicles and interesting objects mimicking shipwrecks
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originally Gabe had been planning a trip to the Great Barrier Reef alone as his father and grandmother had offered to
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pay for it as a graduation gift after meeting Tina and getting her into diving Tina suggested that they take the trip
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to Australia as their honeymoon friends didn't think the diving honeymoon sounded like Tina's ideal vacation but
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Tina said she was looking forward to it and had always wanted to see the turtles
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they decided they would go for two weeks in a light-hearted way the first week would be Tina's choice and the second
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week gapes they planned to fly in the Sydney for a week and then travel up the chancel in Queensland Gabe made contact
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with the dive company you heard about through one of the instructors of the quarry the dive company was Mike ball
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dive expeditions and Gabe booked the 7-night cruise of the Great Barrier aboard of the spoil sport on the cruise
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they would do around 25 dives three to four per day visiting reef sites including remote reefs with water so
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clear there is 40 meter visibility other sites where walls drop off to 300 meters
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ended the famous drift drive down to their SS young gala that would take all their own dive equipment except tanks
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and they spent the weeks prior getting ready two days before the wedding Tina's best friend to me and I went with
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her to the dive quarry at Pelham where they had done their training games dive computer hadn't been working so he put
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it in for a service at the shop the dive computer is like a digital watch on one
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half and a transmitter on the other half the watch part is worn on your wrist and
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measures not only time and depth that gives an indication of how long he can spend at your current depth warns if you
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stay too long and if you are ascending too quickly Gabe's wireless tank pressure
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transmitter was a separate part of the computer and was attached to his tank it wasn't the most up to date model had
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only recorded information once the diver was below 4 meters but it did the job Gabe needed so he had no need to replace
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it when the guy at the shop returned at the dive computer to Tina he said that the batteries were in backwards two days
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after their wedding Tina and Gabe set off her Australia they had to stop over in Houston and Los Angeles before the
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long flight over the Pacific Ocean to Sydney they arrived on October 15th 2003 then spent almost the week touring the
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sights of Sydney they went to a play at the Sydney Opera House took ferries across Darling Harbour and went on a
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river cruise they visited the aquarium and Taronga Zoo on a video they filmed they seemed to genuinely happy together
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and appeared to be a loving Sydney on October 21st they flew the Townsville in northern Queensland Townsville is one of
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the gateways to the Great Barrier Reef the launching point for the next part of their adventure Gabe had been looking
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forward to this for years Townsville's traditional indigenous owners the bindle and a wool Gary Cooper
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people were the first to inhabit the region with nearby archaeological sites dating back 10,000 years an important
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symbol for the bindle people is the shooting star they believe that the direction the shooting star Falls there
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is either danger coming or someone from that direction is in need of help or in danger
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Gavin Tina arrived in Townsville on the first day of a record hot spell that day
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would mark the first of 114 days almost four months of temperatures over 30 degrees Celsius or 80 degrees Fahrenheit
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perfect weather for the diving ahead that evening October 21st Gavin Tina went down to the marina at
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Townsville to meet their crew the night was clear and mild the perfect night to see shooting stars carrying their
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luggage and all the dive gear they had brought from home they were excited to walk aboard the spoil sport a 100 foot
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catamaran fitted with 13 private cabins a lounge area and three decks the lower deck had a large dive deck on the spoon
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and the cabins through the center moving towards the bow the dive that consisted
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of two rows of racks for the dive tanks running lengthwise with bench seats and hangers for wetsuits a large camera and
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storage table ran through the middle with fresh water camera rinse tanks before the stairs which led up to the
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second mid-level deck at the back was the dive platform with entry and exit down a ladder either straight into the
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water or onto a dinghy the main mid-level deck was where the galley and common areas were a sofa and TV area and
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the eating areas at the back of this level set the two inflatable dinghies used to ferry divers to their water
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entry positions on the top was the Sun Deck with sun loungers chairs and shade in 2003 the spoilsport was one of around
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1,500 boats and aircraft which were licensed to tour in the Great Barrier Reef at 10 p.m.
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spoilsport departed Townsville into the night it was heading 48 nautical miles southeast to the shipwrecked SS Young
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gala Gabe and Tina unpacked in their cabin then headed up for the meet-and-greet with the other passengers
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the time to get to know each other and relax the trip director was way too singleton the first thing he did was
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conduct his necessary interviews with each passenger this was company policy it was also policy that everyone must be
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interviewed separately by the trip director even if you are a married couple so no one can influence your
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answers but on this occasion Gabe and Tina were interviewed together trip director Wade singleton quote I first
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met Tina and Gabe on the night prior to that particular dive all the guests come
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on board and they have to have an interview with me we established that Gabe was a rescue diver 50 or so dives
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under the belt so a competent capable diver Tina was a relatively new diver it was
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suggested that we take Tina for an orientation dollars but they were quite adamant that they were happy to dive
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together and didn't need the orientation dive as such during their introductory interview Gabe and Tina had to show
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their diving qualifications policy is that proof is to be shown including logbooks of previous dives Gabe showed
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the record of his 55 dives which qualified him as a red diver showing he was very experienced and skilled to cope
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with the conditions of the young garlic dive hallelu Tina with her five dives was seen as a green diver a novice Mike
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ball expeditions categorize their divers and also their dives into a traffic light system Green being the most team
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dives and the most inexperienced diverts yellow being a mid-level dive ended mid-level divers red being the most
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difficult dives and to the most experienced divers we will go over this in more detail a little later the crew
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explained that Wade and other dive staff would do a specific briefing before each
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dive diagrams would be drawn on a white board explaining any obstacles or safety
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requirements the current conditions underwater as well as any particular dangers including sea life after being
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interviewed all the passengers set up their gear on the back deck the gathering amongst passengers was held on
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the mid-deck guests enjoyed champagne and fruits they mingled and everyone introduced themselves to each other Gabe
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and Tina were the youngest couple and received lots of attention for being newlyweds of just 10 days they met two
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other American couples close friends who had been diving together for 35 years ken and Paula Snider and Doug and ginger
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Milson they described Gav and Tina as a lovely and happy couple having kids around at the same age they instantly
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took a liking to Gavin Tina and they quickly adopted them into their group they described Tina as bubbly and
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beautiful I really sweet and kind woman who was lovely to everyone they said the Gabe didn't say a lot but
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he seemed friendly seeing as the young Galah he's in open water the dive is subject to currents
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and weather and not always die verbal normally it is done as one of the last dives of the week although not protocol
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if the weather on the first day was better for diving at the wreck the boat would head there first so on Gabe and
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Tina's trip that's exactly what they did they arrived at the shipwreck site just
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before 2 a.m. in the morning mooring about 100 metres from the young Gullah when Gabe and Tina woke up around
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6:30 a.m. the spoil sport was mooring a little closer to the wreck they woke to deep blue water lapping around them and
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for a couple of hours they were the only boat at the site the passengers all sat
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down to breakfast around 7:15 a.m. and got ready for their first dive briefing that morning weather conditions were
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very good the only issue was becoming way too said it was strong the dive itself is what is
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known as a drift dive large boys sit on the surface of the water at each end of the shipwreck
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one at the bow and one of the stir we're lines laid down to anchor points on the ship divers descend holding the
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lines until they reach the bottom from there the current naturally carries the diver 300 feet across the young Gullah
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enabling them to explore the wreck drifting with a cone as the diver reaches the end of the deck they come to
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another line that is anchored the diver can then hold on to the line and follow it back up to the surface where they are
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picked up by the dinghy or they can follow another navigation line directly back to the spoil sport each line down
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to the wreck is what is called a safety stop mark by touching an air tank this is where each diver upon their ascent up
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to the surface must stop at three to five minutes to avoid decompression sickness commonly known as the bends
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this is mandatory for the young guard dive seeing as you descend to 100 feet or 30 meters that morning Brian an
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experienced developer working for the dive company and Louise a volunteer deckhand on her first trip on the spoil
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sport when out in the rubber dinghy and dive down to fix air tanks and regulators to the Lions five meters down
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other depths were also clearly marked brian reported the current was strong Louise said it was a very strong
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the briefings start at about 8:30 a.m. with Wade describing the conditions and how the die-off could be approached he
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went over the visibility currents safety procedures and how long they would die for divers follow a set routine and are
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instructed on how to navigate the wreck every diver has a body you descend with your body and descend with your body
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Gabe and Tina were again offered an orientation dive by Wade and began they said they didn't need one between nine
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and a 9:30 a.m. Gabe Tina and to the rest of the passengers of the spoilsport started getting into their wetsuits and
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checking naked as they were doing this another dive boat arrived at the wreck site that jazz - also from Townsville a
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dinging of divers went ahead of Gavin Tina as they were still sorting out their gear but there was no rush the
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trip had only just begun Gabe and Tina tanked up and descended the steps of the boat into the large
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dinghy with six other divers they were taken the short distance to the bow access point of the young Galah when
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everyone was organized they did a backwards roll into the water together according to the dive log the time was
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10:15 a.m. just a few feet below the surface Gabe noticed his dive computer on his
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wrist beeping animal he needed to know why it was beeping he signaled to Tina to go back up and as they came to the
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surface Gabe said he realized that the battery was in backwards Gabe and Tina got back in the dinghy and went back to
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the spoilsport to get the problem sorted a female diver and her father who were on the surface getting additional
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weights said Gabe told the crew member in the dinghy that his computer wasn't recording the air in his tanks the crew
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member assumed that it meant Gabe was having trouble with the pressure that was in the dive tank the crew member
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said they were both fine and relaxed they climbed back on board the spoilsport and put their tanks on the
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racks where one of the other crew members topped up their air tanks it's possible at this point that Tina added
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more weight to her belt as she complained that she didn't feel that should be able to descend properly but
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reports on this are conflicting Gaber asked the Uzi a crew member for a coin and he opened to the battery
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compartment removed the battery and reinserted it back in the opposite way he said that fixed the problem and the
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computer worked as Gabe and Tina were getting ready to dive again the dinghy took some of the other divers out first
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and then came back for them Louise the volunteer deckhand said that when she saw Gabe and Tina back on the
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boat they were both red in the face and had wider glazed eyes she said they seemed out of breaths and uncomfortable
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if not a bit panicky from the information recorded on Gabe's dive computer after resetting the battery he
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entered the water again thirteen minutes later this time the trip director waged singleton another
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crew diver and three other passengers were with them when they got to the dive access point at the boy Gabe and Tina
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descended before the others Tina first and then Gabe followed 30 seconds later by Wade and the others a
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few of the early divers were already on their ascent up and saw the group descending below as they surfaced Gabe
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says that after descending down to the ten meter depth point they went across four meters towards the top of the wreck
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this took them approximately three minutes the following part of the story is Gabe's account of what happened next
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for approximately one minute they went along the top of the wreck to the south at this point there were 20 to 30 feet
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from the line just out of their sight divers from the other boat the Jazz two were descending at this point and not
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far behind to gaben Tina Gabe and Tina were on the back section of the wreck when Tina signaled to gate to go back to
00:30:12
the dive line they had just let go of Gabe said the current was a lot stronger than what they felt comfortable diving
00:30:18
in Tina put out her hand and Gabe took it to assist her along Gabe knew they were not in a good situation as they
00:30:27
were swimming Tina was dropping downwards vertically Gabe momentarily let go of her
00:30:33
so he could use his right hand to inflate his buoyancy control device or BCD and motioned to Tina to
00:30:40
fate hers the BCD hold your tank and when inflated with air it keeps you neutrally buoyant it has a system that
00:30:48
uses air from your tank to inflate it Gabe said he thought Tina was inflating hers but she continued to drop he
00:30:56
grabbed her by her vest and tried to pull her towards the line Gabe thought if he got her to the line
00:31:01
she could hold on and they'd be okay to ascend it's not clear why Gabe didn't attempt to inflate Tina's vest
00:31:08
maybe you panicked and as he dragged her she flung her hands across his face and
00:31:12
knocked his mask off sideways filling it up with water he let go of her - clear his mask but then he realized his
00:31:19
regulator was not in his mouth he grabbed the spare octopus regulator and used that he took a breath and when he
00:31:26
reached for Tina again she was dropping further away from him he upended himself
00:31:31
and tried to swim down after her her arms stretched up towards him her eyes wide panicking he could see she was in
00:31:38
distress she was struggling Gabe said I remember shouting through my regulator Tina Tina Tina he tried to grab her by
00:31:51
this stage she was around five feet below him he couldn't swim down fast enough she was out of reach he was
00:31:57
kicking down there was no use she was sinking too fast it seemed like she was weighed down too heavily and didn't have
00:32:05
enough air in her vest he panicked he was trained to go after his buddy he was trained to go after her but he
00:32:14
didn't instead he went to the surface as a diver he never leave your buddy Tina drifted down down to the sandy
00:32:24
bottom of the sea arms stretched towards her husband of eleven days as he was swimming away from her
00:32:31
Gabe's dive computer showed he never went deeper than 54 feet sixteen and a half meters so from the point he let go
00:32:40
of her he only went down a few more feet to try to save her one to one and a half
00:32:44
meters at most from a technical perspective there was no reason that Gabe couldn't have
00:32:50
continued to swim down and save Tina as she was dropping expert divers estimate three to four kicks at the very most and
00:32:57
the right procedure inflating her vest and pulling her up was all he needed to do there's a chance that by now Gabe's
00:33:05
vest was actually overinflated but he should have known to dump the air and swim down Gabe was a certified Rescue
00:33:12
Diver Gabe later said he saw some fellow divers near the anchor rope and tried to
00:33:17
give them the distress signal he approached someone on the line shaking them trying to get help but no
00:33:23
one reacted no one under the water that they remembered this happening in a panic he swam up to the surface and in
00:33:32
his own words said I pretty much rocketed to the top on the maze thought I didn't get the bends or something as
00:33:39
fast as I could ripping gear off as I went he said he ruptured or hurt his eardrum on the way
00:33:44
up dr. studes was diving at the same time as Gabe in Tina he wasn't on that boat he was on the
00:33:51
Jazz - and one of the divers who had descended after Gabe in Tina dr. stutes quote I saw a diver falling
00:34:00
basically and she was moving her arms in a strange way then I saw another diver coming to the picture and not thought my
00:34:08
perspective was that he was helping her and he came and sort of came on top of her almost like a sort of mounted
00:34:15
position and from my perspective I thought he was had his hands around her to try and bring her to the surface
00:34:22
something happened maybe she pulled his regulator out of his mouth or kneed him in the groin and that they split apart
00:34:30
as Gabe swam to the line and then up to the surface for help Tina sank to the bottom
00:34:37
Gabe's computer recorded a maximum breathing rate alarm and a maximum ascent rate alarm at some time during
00:34:44
the swim when Gabe surfaced he had been underwater for a total of seven minutes Gabe came up right next to the
00:34:52
spoilsport dinghy and grabbed ahold of a boy which was attached to the line from
00:34:56
the Jays tooth he told a crewmember what had happened and the crewmember immediately radioed the spoilsport an
00:35:02
emergency was called khru on Lookout duty on spoilsports stated the gate was 10 to 12 meters from jazz - they
00:35:11
collected the boats emergency oxygen resuscitation gear crew members Ozzy Bono and David Lim Singh were the
00:35:17
nominated rescue divers they immediately aired up and got in the dinghy ready to
00:35:22
go down back underwater the trip director Wade singleton had let go of the line and was about to drift across
00:35:29
the wreck a dive photographer was taking photos when way to notice the diver lying on the seafloor quote I was in the
00:35:38
water for about six or seven minutes when I saw a diver lying away from the wreck on the seafloor it all happened
00:35:44
very quickly but the thought processes were what's the daughter doing where's their buddy there were no bubbles and it
00:35:51
was at that point that I realized that something wasn't quite right and that's when I just hightailed it over to the
00:35:56
person and made out that it was Tina something was wrong she was lying on her back her eyes were open wide placed his
00:36:07
right arm under her right arm and put his hand on her regulator depressing the purge button and forcing air into her
00:36:13
mouth he used his left arm to cradle her head and hold her inflator putting air into her BCD he needed to drop some
00:36:22
weights Tina's weights were integrated into her vest so he decided he would drop his
00:36:27
weight belt by doing this and putting some air into his BCD he ascended with her he cradled Tina in a hug position
00:36:35
with her face facing upwards to keep her airway open other divers descending the
00:36:40
line saw Wade come up with Tina they watched as she was pulled up eyes wide open one said she had blood coming from
00:36:47
her nose dive computers would later show that way descended at a much faster rate than
00:36:54
Gabe did other divers including lead divers from the jazz to watch the weight pulling Tina up and followed them to the
00:37:01
surface doctor stutes who had seen Tina falling to the bottom and saw the diver whom he presumed was Gabe grabbing her
00:37:08
in a type of bear hug swim over to the dive access point line and informed others what was happening and what he
00:37:14
saw down below Tina had been underwater for a total of 10 minutes according to her computer 3 minutes longer than Gabe
00:37:22
if Gabe was on his ascent as Wade went to rescue Tina it is assumed that Wade bought Tina up in two to two and a half
00:37:30
minutes Wade bought tended to the surface just as the rescue team from the sports board arrived at the access point
00:37:37
in the dinghy Tina is taken to the back deck of the Jays to where they pulled her on board
00:37:42
resuscitation attempts had been commenced John Downey was a passenger on board spoilsport he was also an
00:37:50
emergency trauma surgeon he was on board the sports board at this point and he was taken over to the Jays to to help
00:37:57
Tina's mouthpiece and mast were both still in place on her face and mouth apart from a small amount of foam and
00:38:03
vomit no water gushed from her mouth which indicated to the divers that she had not taken in water they saw no blood
00:38:10
coming from her nose Wade is singleton quote once we hit the surface we got Tina onto another vessel and we started
00:38:19
first aid CPR I think there was about four or five of us there was a couple of emergency room doctors we were just
00:38:27
doing whatever we could to give her the best chance of survival Suzy bond I quote she had no water which was unusual
00:38:35
if someone is underwater and drowns normally they have water from when they inhale Gabe had been taken back to the
00:38:44
sport before Wade had even surfaced with Tina the two American couples who they had become friendly with were on board
00:38:51
Paula and Ken Snyder and ginger and Doug and Milson they saw a gay being brought
00:38:57
back to the sports sport without Tina at the time now we're down on the dive deck
00:39:01
as he was climbing on Paul Schneider quote we were up on the back of the deck getting our stuff ready to go in for a
00:39:09
second dive and can notice the gabe was with the artena and looking kind of flustered and
00:39:13
disturbed ken Schneider quote I went up to him and said Gabe what's going on where's Tina and he said she didn't come
00:39:23
up and I said Gabe what happened and he said she was overweight and panicking and was flailing and knocked his mask
00:39:30
off and knocked the regulator out of his mouth he said by the time he got that back she was sinking hands towards him
00:39:37
feet first sinking staring at him and I said Gabe you left her and he said I had to get
00:39:45
assistance and I just stared at Gabe for a long time and I said Gabe tell me that
00:39:54
didn't happen you never ever ever leave a diver in that situation you just don't
00:40:02
Gabe story didn't add up for Ken it was then they saw what was happening on the back of the Jazz - Tina receiving CPR
00:40:11
one of the wives went over to Gabe and asked if she could do anything for him he said I need a hug according to Gabe
00:40:19
he was told Tina had been brought back up and doctors from another dive boat had an IV in her arm and they were
00:40:25
working to save her Gabe quote it was just a huge relief I just thought they were rehydrating her
00:40:33
or something the Snider's and the Milsons and a few others were surprised that Gabe didn't
00:40:39
request to be taken over to the Jazz - he just stayed on the spoil sport with them
00:40:44
the passengers described his behavior as a little odd he didn't seem too stressed
00:40:49
that his wife was being resuscitated on another boat he didn't ask the guy over there to see her Gabe would later state
00:40:56
that he couldn't handle that type of thing and didn't want to see Tina being resuscitated dr. stutes who saw what
00:41:03
happened underwater had resurfaced on to the Jays too and assisted in the attempts to resuscitate Tina they worked
00:41:10
on her for 40 minutes at 11:21 a.m. she was pronounced dead doctor John Tierney travelled back to the sports sport by
00:41:20
dinghy Gabe said he knew he wasn't coming to tell him his new bride just had a headache Gabe asked is she okay
00:41:28
John is she okay John said I don't have good news she didn't make it we did everything we could but we lost her
00:41:41
everyone grabbed onto each other son fell down everyone was crying the ways the volunteer deckhand was asked to
00:41:50
comfort Gabe she spent some time with him in his cabin he relayed again what happened he said the current was too
00:41:57
strong he said she was too heavy and he couldn't lift her as she dropped he asked to go and see her on the other
00:42:05
dive boat just - they took him over Wade testified that Gabe was crying and sobbing on the way meanwhile the divers
00:42:13
in the water continued their diet nearly all unaware of what had happened a group of divers saw Wade's dive belt
00:42:20
and one retrieved it but didn't think much of it at the time when the divers from the Jazz - surfaced they were taken
00:42:29
to the spoilsport until the staff and doctors worked out what to do dr. Downey and dr. stutes had a conversation on the
00:42:36
back deck of jazz - they in senior staff discussed what had happened and it was mentioned - that Tina and Gabe had come
00:42:43
back up with problems on their first dive attempt and also that Tina had been panicky at depth
00:42:48
they discussed what they add each scene under the water it didn't seem clear what it actually happened Tina's body
00:42:56
was taken back aboard spoilsport and everyone headed back to Townsville on board the spoilsport a couple of
00:43:02
passengers claimed to that gate was playing cards or at least sitting with a group of people who were playing cards a
00:43:08
few passengers stated he didn't seem like a husband who had just lost his wife on the trip back
00:43:15
Gabe addressed the other passengers about losing Tina there are many conflicting views on what he said some
00:43:21
stated it was something like as you know my wife died today this really sucks while some passengers felt Gabe's
00:43:30
behavior seemed odd others described a husband devastated about his wife dying crying and a very upset when the boat
00:43:39
docked at Townsville Senior Constable Glen Lawrence and Senior Constable Paul Campbell from the Townsville Water
00:43:44
Police boarded Lawrence took charge of the inquiry Tina's body was transferred to the Townsville morgue
00:43:51
they took Tina engaged diving equipment as well as all paperwork from the spoilsport a brief interview was
00:43:58
conducted with Gabe on board by senior constable Lawrence he recorded this in his notebook saying Gabe appeared to be
00:44:05
in shock there had been a few different variations engaged story by this point not huge changes but little things but
00:44:13
he had no explanation for why he a trained Rescue Diver left Tina to drift down as he swam to the surface all
00:44:22
passengers and crew were transported to Townsville police station by this time murmurs among the group had already
00:44:29
started as the how and why this could have possibly happened Gabe was formally interviewed at Townsville District
00:44:35
Police Headquarters that evening during Gabe's first interview detective Senior Constable Kevin Gehringer determined
00:44:42
that the majority of gapes statements were consistent with other versions he had told but there was a major
00:44:48
difference which would lead to a second interview Paula Schneider was with Gabe afterwards
00:44:55
a statement was prepared based on the interview by this time police have been given information by the doctors and
00:45:01
rescue dog is out there that day no one seemed to have any idea how Tina died her mask and
00:45:07
mouthpiece was still intact not a lot of water had expelled from her mouth the only person with her was Gabe her
00:45:15
buddy who had left her to sink to the bottom a diver shouldn't sink they should be neutrally buoyant in the
00:45:21
water unless they were over weighted or unless someone turned their air supply off detective Campbell quote when
00:45:29
Detective Garin Gary and I were assigned to the investigation I could not see how
00:45:34
Tina's death would be suspicious Gabe was married only 11 days to Tina they seemed quite happy with each other but
00:45:41
basically we kept coming back to the point there was no reasonable hypothesis as the white teen had died underwater on
00:45:48
that given day detective Senior Constable Kevin Garin go quote Gabe told me that he and Tina entered the water
00:45:56
and that as a result of a malfunction with his dive computer they had to abort the first dive a short time later
00:46:03
they've reentered the water a second time and at about 15 meters depth tina indicated that she wanted to resurface
00:46:10
they've started swimming back to the diver access point and at some stage Tina has panicked and knocked off his
00:46:16
mask and regulator Gabe had to let Tina go and fix himself up he then noticed that she some five or 10 feet below him
00:46:24
he starts to swim down but realizes there's nothing he can do as a result he starts the surface on the
00:46:32
way up he bumps into two divers and has problems communicating with them that there's a difficulty he then continued
00:46:39
to the surface where he raised the alarm as far as suspicion was concerned I myself am NOT a diver whilst I thought
00:46:47
it was unusual for him to leave his wife of 11 days people do strange things when
00:46:52
they're panicked police would eventually question every person from both boats not everyone was questioned face-to-face
00:47:00
and not everyone was questioned straightaway but everyone involved in the actual incident was interviewed at
00:47:05
some stage by police Gabe found his father David Watson from the police station it was about 6:00
00:47:12
a.m. in Birmingham when Gabe's family received a call Gabe told his father that Tina had dreamed the rest of the
00:47:19
conversation was just a blur David Watson said Gabe also spoke to reverend gree who had only just married them
00:47:27
reverend gree quote he was devastated haunted by Tina's image feeling helpless Paula Snyder was with Gabe during his
00:47:38
first police interview and during this call to his father while Gabe was describing what happened paula overheard
00:47:44
him say that he had heard his is paula had been with dave since he first came out of the water he never mentioned in
00:47:52
any retelling of his story before this point that he had heard his small seeds of death had started to plant themselves
00:48:00
in those around Gabe his story appeared to change Gabe asked his father to contact Tina's father Tommy Thomas and
00:48:08
informed him of Tina's death he didn't want to call him himself just yet before Gabe left the police station that night
00:48:16
he had a heated discussion with senior constable Campbell which was overheard by a few others it had something to do
00:48:22
with Gabe's dive computer Campbell issued a duplicate receipt for the police to hold on to his dive computer
00:48:28
for evidence which seemed to satisfy Gabe ssoas believed Gabe thought initially that he wasn't going to get it
00:48:35
back others being interviewed remained at the police station throughout the night some still there at 3:00 a.m. a
00:48:42
death report was issued that night at red approximately 10:30 on Wednesday the 22nd day of October 2003 the deceased
00:48:53
person entered the water with her husband as her dive buddy to scuba dive on the historic shipwreck the young gala
00:48:59
at a depth of 45 feet the deceased signaled to her husband that she wanted to surface they both began swimming
00:49:07
against the current towards the dye vessel the deceased became fatigued so her husband began telling her the
00:49:14
deceased panicked and grabbed her husband's died Ephrata he looked into her eyes and saw her eyes were wide open
00:49:21
there was no response the deceased then sank to the seafloor a dive instructor in the area at the time has seen the
00:49:29
deceased on the sea floor he retrieved her and made an emergency ascent to the nearest the dive vessel just to wear
00:49:36
full resuscitation commenced there appears to be no suspicious circumstances surrounding this death at
00:49:43
this point in time it was late in the evening when Gav left the police station the Mike bought dive company had first
00:49:51
refused to put gave up in accommodation but after Gabe suggested he just sleep aboard the sports board as he had
00:49:57
nowhere else to go they quickly changed their minds and put him up at a local Holiday Inn although
00:50:03
the others may very well have been able to continue their week of diving on board the vessel the $7,000 trip that
00:50:10
Gabe and Tina had paid for would now go unused so Gabe stayed at the Holiday Inn
00:50:15
and his mother Glenda flew out almost immediately to be with him a statement from the Holiday Inn said
00:50:22
that Mike Bal expeditions originally agreed to pay for 3 nights accommodation for Gabe but when it came time to pay
00:50:27
they only paid for one on October 22nd at 8:36 a.m. Tina's father Tommy Thomas was on a business trip in Florida he
00:50:38
worked as a management training consultant for a life and accident insurance company he answered his phone
00:50:44
and was taken slightly aback when he realized the person on the other end was Gabe's father David who asked him if he
00:50:51
was alone Tommy said there were people around but he could talk David said quote I don't know how else to tell you
00:50:59
this but there has been an accident and Tina has drowned Tommy dropped to his knees David then
00:51:06
handed the phone over to Reverend gris-gris Russ told me if there was anything he could do to which Tommy
00:51:13
asked if they could just keep it quiet at least until he could get home to tell his wife and other daughter himself
00:51:18
Grier agreed devastated Tommy went to the airport to fly home while at the airport he attempted to ring David
00:51:27
Watson back but he got his voicemail instead of calling Tommy back himself David got Reverend agrea to call him
00:51:34
back Tommy wanted to know a little more he realized in his shock he didn't get any information
00:51:40
how and when Tina died Grier told Tommy he didn't know any of the finer details but warned him news about Tina's death
00:51:48
was already out it seemed a lot of people knew about Tina's death before her family even did when Al and Tina's
00:51:57
sister had gotten to work that morning she didn't know her sister had died but everyone else been a lander was taken
00:52:05
home to her parents house by a friend while Tommy took the one-hour flight home from Florida Tommy later found out
00:52:11
that before he even got home Gabe's mother Glenda was awaiting a lift to the airport to fly to Australia
00:52:17
she was packed and had her tickets and visas this confused Tommy as there was only two hours since he had heard of
00:52:24
Tina's death how long had they known without telling him over the following couple of hours says
00:52:31
Tommy arrived home to his wife Cindy and daughter Orlando he left numerous voicemail messages for David Watson on
00:52:37
his home phone work phone and a cell phone so did another friend of Tommy's but David never returned any of their
00:52:44
calls Tommy got in contact with the American consulate in Australia trying to get information about how their
00:52:51
daughter died the official asked Tommy what he knew Tommy said he didn't really know
00:52:56
anything and had no idea how to contact Gabe and Gabe's father wasn't returning his calls over ten hours had passed
00:53:03
since David had called Tommy and told him about Tina but they still had not received a call from Gabe they couldn't
00:53:10
work out why Gabe hadn't called them an hour later the consulate official called
00:53:15
Tommy she had Gabe on the line and said she could connect them Tommy Cindy and Orlando were all in the basement as they
00:53:23
could all hear what was being said on the basement he and said Cindy wanted to speak first
00:53:28
first thing Cindy asked Gabe was a you okay here you heard she then asked him what happened Gabe told them the story
00:53:38
through flooding tears Cindy said it's okay Tina you you were going for help Gabe
00:53:46
told them he was ripping his gear off as he ascended Cindy said did you go over to be with her were you calling her name
00:53:53
when they were trying to resuscitate her Gabe replied yes I went over I was trying to get her to come back but we
00:54:01
just lost her Tommy and Cindy told Gabe they loved him and that if he needed them to fly over they would when Tommy
00:54:10
Cindy and Orlando got off the phone they still had friends in the house for support one of those was Kelly who had
00:54:17
brought a lander home from work Kelly was a scuba diver Tommy told the story Gabe had just told them Kelly said I
00:54:25
didn't see an write to her for the next four days neither David nor Gabe called Tommy or Cindy Gabe visited a GP about
00:54:34
his years the GP confirmed that he had mild barotrauma and his eardrums were red
00:54:40
a grief counselor arranged forgave to see a lawyer to help with some legal papers he had to sign by then his mother
00:54:48
Glenda had arrived Glenda Watson quote I knew if I cried he would be lost forever he felt like he
00:54:56
had to stay strong for me he could talk to you but I don't think he was aware of
00:55:01
a lot of things he said I don't really know what it means to lose a wife because she was only my wife for 11 days
00:55:09
but as far as losing the other half of me my soulmate I do gaben Glenda Watson went to the
00:55:17
Townsville morgue to see Tina's body detectives Gehringer and Lawrence went with them they stayed in the waiting
00:55:23
room while Gabe and his mother entered the viewing room after a short while Glenda came out and left Gabe alone with
00:55:30
Tina detective Lawrence was just outside the door which had been left open he would later state I overheard Gabe say
00:55:39
in a low mumbled voice I am so sorry I never meant to hurt you I shouldn't have kept taking you down I'm sorry I
00:55:47
couldn't stop it the post-mortem examination was carried out by Professor David Williams at the Townsville
00:55:56
Hospital 24 hours after Tina died the autopsy eliminated any medical conditions including her heart condition
00:56:03
and eliminated any sort of death from marine stings the cause of death drowning the cause of drowning
00:56:11
undetermined accidental or deliberate undetermined there were four possible explanations of accidental drowning but
00:56:20
all were ruled out these were Tina's pre-existing heart condition excluded as a possible cause choking on vomit as a
00:56:29
preliminary event excluded placer was reported when Tina's mask and regulator came off there was only a small trace of
00:56:36
white foam and from it and no water in her mouth unconsciousness was possible following a Lehren gossip as M which is
00:56:43
a closing of the vocal cords which can completely constrict breathing but this was discounted as the cause of death
00:56:50
and whilst accepting anxiety and panic could have been a factor it was not the cause of Tina's death it was noted that
00:56:58
there was a possibility she was deprived of oxygen prior to drowning all of Tina's equipment was tested and found to
00:57:04
be operating in perfect order a second interview was conducted with Gabe on October 27th five days after Tina died
00:57:13
Gabe attended the interview with his mother Glenda and it was conducted by Detective Senior Constable Gehringer and
00:57:19
Senior Constable Lawrence the police hadn't called gave to come in Gabe requested another interview so he could
00:57:26
clarify some points from the first interview he gave the night Tina died Glenda held his arm and rubbed his back
00:57:33
as he spoke in this interview Gabe claimed he didn't know anything about the dive before they did it he wasn't
00:57:40
aware of the difficulties only what Wade singleton had told them in the briefing
00:57:44
he also denied that Tina was offered an orientation dive detective Senior Constable Gehringer had this to say
00:57:51
about the second interview several days later Gabe indicated to me that he wished to clarify a few matters in his
00:57:58
first statement Gabe mentioned that the currents were a little above my would five out of ten any second statement
00:58:05
he'd made mention that they were the strongest currents that he'd ever experienced himself and as far as he was
00:58:11
concerned there was the currents that triggered Tina's distress Gabe also made mention in his second statement that in
00:58:17
no way did his diver rescue certification train him to bring an unconscious diver to the surface it
00:58:23
seemed to me as if there was some blame-shifting going on after this second beat of you Gabe was allowed to
00:58:29
leave the country to bury his wife two days after Tina's death while Gabe was still in Australia Tina's father
00:58:37
Tommy Thomas called Queensland police he was still trying to get a hold of David
00:58:42
Watson who wasn't returning his calls and he hadn't heard from Gabe since that first phone call tommy was becoming
00:58:49
irritated he felt like no one was telling him anything he called Townsville place and spoke to
00:58:55
an officer called Clem Tommy was surprised that here Glen saved that accidental drowning was just one of the
00:59:02
possibilities that were looking at Glen wouldn't say what else they were looking
00:59:06
at but Tommy didn't need an explanation he was aware that there could be more to
00:59:10
gape story Tommy had been feeling uneasy from the very second he heard Gabe say he couldn't save Tina the police hadn't
00:59:18
yet determined it was definitely an accident there were so many questions still unanswered
00:59:23
Tommy's uneasiness only grew it wasn't until October 26 four days after Tina's death that Tommy
00:59:33
heard from the Watson family again David visited Tommy and Cindy he visited with Reverend Greer and his wife David
00:59:42
apologized for not returning any of Tommy's calls or coming to visit sooner he said that he just didn't know what to
00:59:48
say David said gaben Glenda were doing okay and he would keep Cindy and Tommy up-to-date with any correspondence but
00:59:55
had no more information to share Tommy brought up arranging the funeral he said he wanted to purchase a plot for Tina as
01:00:03
well as neighboring plots for the rest of their family including Gabe if he wanted to be buried with Tina later
01:00:08
David said he couldn't answer that would be up to Gabe Tommy wasn't happy he didn't think it should be up to Gabe at
01:00:15
all he said Cindy you know I didn't have a lot to say to him after that the following day
01:00:22
tommy and Cindy attempted to make arrangements for Tina's funeral but we're told the Watsons had already made
01:00:27
arrangements there was also a problem with the power of attorney frustrated tommy was able to call the Holiday Inn
01:00:34
in Townsville and speak to Gabe Tommy asked gave the sign over power of attorney so he could arrange the funeral
01:00:41
but Gabe said no and told Tommy to wait until he returned home on November 1st 2003 Gabe and Glenda flew home with
01:00:50
Tina's body they had to fly from Townsville to Brisbane then to Auckland in New Zealand then Los Angeles on
01:00:57
toward Atlanta and then finally Birmingham five flights to get Tina home when descending into Auckland Gabe had a
01:01:05
pain so severe that paramedics had to take him from the plane and he was transported to hospital tests show
01:01:11
disease were fine those critical of Gabe believed he was faking it to avoid meeting Tommy at the airport upon his
01:01:18
return but he and his mother did make it back to Alabama with Tina's body when Gabe landed back home and coincided with
01:01:25
a shocking photo being released to the world's media the underwater photographer who had descended the wreck
01:01:32
dive with Wade singleton that day the one Wade was with when he noticed that Tina lying on the sea floor had
01:01:38
developed his underwater film one of the photos showed Tina in the background lying on her back on the scene with Wade
01:01:45
swimming to her aid the photo was blasted across the front pages worldwide whilst Tina's funeral was being arranged
01:01:53
the two American couples Canon Paula Snider and Doug and ginger Milson had themselves returned to the United States
01:01:59
they were having trouble wrapping their heads around what had happened they discussed their concerns at length they
01:02:06
had their suspicions and decided to speak with Tommy but they didn't want to seem tactless or say anything that would
01:02:12
upset him 10 Snider tracked down the funeral home where Tina's funeral was being held Ken asked the funeral
01:02:19
director if he could leave a message for Tommy Thomas the message was if you would like to speak to somebody or some
01:02:25
people who were on the actual dive boat we would be more than happy to talk with
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you Tina's funeral was conducted by Reverend degree the tension was so high funeral directors open to two parlors to
01:02:38
separate the families Greece said it was clear that Thomas's were upset quote when I said she slipped away from Gabe
01:02:46
her mother said I would have never left my daughter in relation to Gabe Greece said he hung back at the funeral quote
01:02:55
he said I've had three weeks with Tina this is for everybody else he tried not to intrude on their grief he knew how
01:03:03
they felt about him before the funeral started some of Tina's closest friends viewed her body
01:03:09
Tina's best friend Amanda went up with Gabe she alleged that Gabe turned to her and said at least her breasts are perky
01:03:18
she also alleged he said I'm so glad she didn't have a million dollar insurance policy or they'd be coming after me for
01:03:25
murder Gabe took off Tina's wedding and engagement rings put the wedding ring back on Tina's finger and put the
01:03:32
engagement ring in his pocket although there was clear tension there was no actual conflict at the funeral although
01:03:39
some claim Gabe wasn't present when Tina was actually buried the wake was held at
01:03:44
the Watsons house Gabe showed a video and photos of the honeymoon he showed Amanda a photo of
01:03:50
Tina from Sydney standing next to a sign saying caution drowning in relation to Gabe
01:03:58
Amanda said the following after the funeral I tried my very best to stay friends with Gabe until I got that
01:04:04
Christmas card it was a picture of the two of them from their wedding on the inside of it said who's that sexy guy
01:04:11
next to Tina oh yeah that's me and he put a smiley face on it I just threw it down on the counter talking
01:04:18
disgust and I said there's something weird going on here after the funeral neither the Watson family nor Reverend
01:04:26
degree called Pena's family again Gabe attended grief counselors and a support group for young widows Gabe wasn't
01:04:34
coping he stayed at his parents house for a couple of months before his brother moved in with him that he's in
01:04:39
Tina's home his mother Glenda quote he didn't drink date party go on troops spent money he came back and started
01:04:47
working on paying off her debt that was just the kind of kid he was his father David quote he never smiled he never
01:04:55
laughed he would come to the office but to say he was involved or participating know at some point he began to hear the
01:05:03
talk the mysterious death of Tina was being questioned by people in Alabama and in Australia and word was starting
01:05:11
to get out the Tina's family felt Gabe was somehow involved after the funeral game started to sort
01:05:18
out Tina's estate Tommy still wanted Gabe to pass over power of attorney to him but Gabe declined he was after all
01:05:26
Tina's husband that was correct a Gabe had asked Tina to adjust her life insurance and increase the policy her
01:05:34
current policy was that in the event of her death the payout was equivalent to one year salary which was around $34,000
01:05:40
this would go to her father Tommy prior to their honeymoon Gabe requested that Tina increased the
01:05:47
premium to facilitate an increasing payor in the event of accidental death and as her husband make him the
01:05:53
beneficiary the update you wanted would mean the payout would be increased to about one hundred and seventy five
01:05:59
thousand dollars and that money would go to Gabe instead of thirty four thousand
01:06:03
dollars going to Tommy Gabe made several inquiries into new life-insurance policies in the lead up to their wedding
01:06:11
mark use of om whose insurance had drafted quotes for two hundred and fifty thousand dollar policies for Gabe but in
01:06:18
the end Tina engaged policies state as they were mark uses notes dated September 8 2003
01:06:25
read Gabe wants to take a look at life insurance after the wedding touch base in early December when organizing the
01:06:34
honeymoon Gabe also took out travel insurance after returning home he put an application in for trip interruption and
01:06:40
medical benefits Gabe received a letter back from the travel insurance company at read please
01:06:47
refer to the attached insurance policy under the heading general exclusions end of limitations part G of benefits not
01:06:54
payable for sickness injuries or losses stated while participating in skydiving hang gliding bungee jumping scuba diving
01:07:02
or deep-sea diving Gabe didn't realize scuba diving was an activity not covered in the policy he
01:07:09
purchased the travel agent who organized the honeymoon was apparently aware they
01:07:14
would be scuba diving but didn't arrange the correct to cover the Watsons family
01:07:19
friend and attorney bob austin guided Gabe through various legal issues following Tina's death bob austin quote
01:07:26
it was up to him to marshal assets Gabe already had taken $12,000 of Tina's debt on his credit card because
01:07:34
we've heard debt to income ratio she wouldn't qualify for the mortgage Gabe had spent almost $5,000 on the funeral
01:07:41
it would get less than he spent if he ended up with her estate it was an insolvent estate to think
01:07:48
somebody would kill somebody for $30,000 when they had just taken on $12,000 of that debt and spent $10,000 on a
01:07:55
honeymoon trip the logic just escapes me but I must say as soon as I heard the story I knew there was going to be
01:08:02
somebody saying he didn't do the right thing following the funeral Tomi contacted cam Schneider he wanted to
01:08:10
hear what he had to say and the two of them met for a coffee Tommy had not had a conversation with anyone else who was
01:08:16
on the spoil sport other than Gabe he hoped that Ken would be able to answer some of his questions tommy was haunted
01:08:23
by his daughter's death the vision he had from the story Gabe gave him was too much to bear his
01:08:29
daughter sinking feet-first arms stretched out towards her new husband staring him in the eyes
01:08:35
Gabe unable to keep hold of her too heavy for his grasp letting her go so he could go for help
01:08:42
tommy was completely unaware of the context of his daughter's death he had no knowledge of scuba diving he knew
01:08:48
nothing of the process of helping someone who's in distress the buddy system currents air pressure nothing
01:08:55
ken Snyder told Tommy that he had many problems with Gabe's thorry he explained that a distressed or panic to divert
01:09:02
kicks and scrambles for air instinct is to go for the surface for Tina to be calmly floating down feet first she must
01:09:10
have been unconscious or heavily overweighted he felt the Gabe story that Tina became too heavy and at that point
01:09:18
she began to sink was impossible according to Ken if Tina was five to ten feet below Gabe as he claimed that was
01:09:25
only two to three fingers away there should have been no reason what Gabe couldn't have gotten to her inflated her
01:09:31
BCD and brought her up he had rescued diving training he had been trained to do that diving is a buddy situation it's
01:09:40
never okay to leave your buddy ken told Tommy that he challenged Gabe on the boat and told Gabby story didn't
01:09:47
make sense Ken Snyder quote what really rang one of the loudest bells is when Gabe said she was ten feet below him
01:09:54
arms outstretched and sinking looking up at him I said Tommy this is difficult because I've never heard of a diver in a
01:10:02
full-out panic mode sinking serenely to the bottom of the ocean a full born panic attack in a diver will
01:10:08
make that diver crawl right over the top of someone to get to the surface and my
01:10:13
experience tells me that live people don't sink dead people sink Tommy Thomas quote and to that really changed
01:10:22
everything when he said that and two days later Gabe's sending word through his attorney
01:10:27
that because he was her husband even though they'd only been married ten days that he had a right to all her stuff and
01:10:33
donated to get it all together as quickly as I could and turn it over to him like right now I made a decision
01:10:40
that week that we had to go to Australia because I had to go see the police firsthand if I could and I needed
01:10:47
somehow or other to meet the guy that brought her up one of the biggest questions Tommy had was what was Gabe
01:10:54
doing while doctors were trying to save Tina's life he had heard from Ken and elsewhere through the grapevine that
01:11:00
Gabe had almost hid when Tina was being resuscitated which is different to what Gabe told them he never left her and was
01:11:08
calling out her name Tommy flew to Australia to meet Wade singleton Wade singleton quote admittedly I was
01:11:17
apprehensive about the meeting but he was fantastic and all he was after was facts about what had happened and one of
01:11:24
those who wanted to know was if Gabe had actually come across the Tina while we were doing resuscitation on her always
01:11:31
able to tell him that he didn't come across he actually stayed on the other boat while that was happening Tommy
01:11:37
Thomas quote why if you're on this boat and she's on a boat just over there why are you not going over to her
01:11:44
because anybody else would and why once somebody comes back and tells you she's dead would all of a sudden you go over
01:11:50
now the only reason you wouldn't go over there while they were trying to resuscitate her
01:11:55
he was afraid they would and she knew what he had tried to do to her and once he knew she was dead it didn't matter I
01:12:02
did yet to have several conversations with the police they were indeed suspicious and said that it was a
01:12:08
continuing ongoing investigation it had now been set out loud suspicions were that Gabe deliberately drew on Tina Ken
01:12:18
Snyder and his friend Doug Nelson suspected it Tommy now suspected it and police suspected it Queensland Police
01:12:27
advised Tommy to involve Alabama police in the case Tommy went to Detective lieutenant Brad Flynn of the Halina
01:12:34
Police Department Alabama Flynn called Queensland Police and learned of their suspicions things
01:12:41
didn't seem to be adding up Queensland police had already begun to piece the situation together they had received
01:12:49
statements from other divers who had serious doubts over gates story they also had the autopsy results and the
01:12:55
analysis of dive equipment these things together with the inconsistencies in gauged account meant police started to
01:13:02
believe there was a real possibility Gabe had deliberately caused the Tina's death officially they were unable to
01:13:09
rule the death accidental and they were unable to rule out foul play the case was officially declared a criminal
01:13:16
investigation and was handed over to the Criminal Investigation Branch CIB detective sergeant Gary Campbell was
01:13:23
appointed to review the case there was now July 2004 nine months since the death of Tina the investigation had been
01:13:31
ongoing since Tina's death but it was only now it was declared a criminal investigation the investigation was
01:13:38
named Operation Charley Oswald they were to report to David Glasgow a coroner who specialized in marine and a
01:13:46
dive deaths a few days later Gabe's lawyers in Alabama were informed that Australian police were lodging a
01:13:53
submission to Interpol regarding the u.s. side of the investigation Gabe was told that Australian police had not
01:14:00
concluded their investigation into Tina's death Detective Sergeant Campbell was a
01:14:05
thorough investigator who left no stone unturned together with his team they interviewed
01:14:11
witnesses who had not yet been interviewed they worked with scientists at the James Cook University to study 3d
01:14:17
renders of the shipwreck they studied weather conditions on the day and analyzed every second and every
01:14:23
centimeter of the dive they watched the tapes again and again of gauged second police interview he gave with his mother
01:14:30
to them he did not cut the figure of a grieving husband there was a few days after his new wife's death and he was
01:14:37
describing the incident for police for the second time without tears or breaking down and his story had changed
01:14:43
little things had been added witnesses who had already been interviewed were reinterviews and that
01:14:49
was difficult because they were now scattered all over the world they poured over the exhibit photos and the
01:14:55
technical information from the dive which had since come through the following a quote from detective
01:15:01
sergeant Gary Campbell and detective Senior Constable Kevin Gehringer Campbell detective Gehringer and I sat
01:15:08
down and broke down the record of interview and statement of game literally eight times down to individual
01:15:13
lines and phrases to clearly establish what he alleges occurred underwater we had also come into possession of a
01:15:20
photograph taken by another diver and mr. stemple and he's taking a photograph of his wife in the background you can
01:15:27
see wage singleton diving in the direction of Tina lying on the ocean floor yeah it's one of them photographs
01:15:33
I think that's one in a million we had a specific location on the ocean floor where Tina was photographed the
01:15:40
significance of that is that it contradicted what Gabe told us about where he had left tina Tina's body
01:15:47
should have been found on the wreck or adjacent to it not 16 meters away from the wreck at a 90-degree angle to the
01:15:54
currents Gehringer Gabe also mentioned in his statement that after he left Tina he encountered two divers and it was
01:16:02
quite the wrecked and quite firm in that he substantially shook these divers pointed in the direction that he'd last
01:16:08
seen Tina trying to raise the alarm Campbell we contacted every crew and passenger on both vessels that were
01:16:15
moored at the location on the day of the death Gehringer and there was nobody that had a single male diver approached
01:16:23
them on the dive the descent line and to try and raise an alarm with them one of
01:16:28
the really big things that we focused on was Gabe's version where he said he rocketed to the surface to seek help for
01:16:33
Tina we investigated Gabe's dive computer and he's version in relation to it giving out an audible alarm when he
01:16:40
first descended with Tina we carried out tests on the dive computer in the hyperbaric chamber both with the
01:16:47
batteries incorrectly and with them in incorrectly and what we found is that with the battery in back to front the
01:16:53
computer merely doesn't work it's unable to put out an audible alarm Campbell his
01:16:59
actions in relation to the dive computer were a straight out lie and to that then
01:17:04
raised the question with us what was he trying to hide Gehringer we were looking
01:17:10
for innocent explanations but at the end of the day there were just too many lies
01:17:14
too many inconsistencies I honestly think that just prior to her death she was fighting for her life police tested
01:17:24
the dive computers of Gabe Tina and Wade singleton they didn't take Gabe's transmitter which links to his dive
01:17:30
computer apparently this would have given more information to police there has been no explanation from police as
01:17:37
to why they didn't test Gabe's transmitter but some believe that may have resulted in different findings from
01:17:42
the computer in relation to the air supply and air pressure Tina's computer was a very basic model
01:17:49
and couldn't be plugged into a computer to be downloaded so they used the two logbook function it showed the time Tina
01:17:56
hit the water with 7:28 p.m. which incorrectly was still on Alabama time the dive log function showed that Tina
01:18:03
went to a depth of 89 feet or 27 meters and who was underwater for 10 minutes until she surfaced with Wade her ascent
01:18:12
rate showed that she came up at the maximum recordable rate which makes all five segments with the warning system
01:18:17
light up the too fast graphic was flashing this shows Wade rushed to the surface to try and save her life
01:18:25
Tina's dive computer also showed information regarding previous dives on previous dives her cent rate also lit up
01:18:32
all five segments of the ascent warning system and the too fast graphic appeared
01:18:37
this is often an indication of panic and confirmed what Tina's dive instructor said about her during training she was
01:18:44
panicky the computer history also showed that the maximum depth Tina had ever dived to in the past was only 30 feet
01:18:51
just over nine meters the young garlis shipwreck dive was over three times the depth Tina had ever dived before even at
01:19:00
16 meters when Gabe and Tina let go of the dive access line Tina was already deeper than she had
01:19:05
ever been before Gabe's dive computer was a more advanced model and was able to be plugged into a computer to read
01:19:12
its record Gabe's computer history showed that after Tina picked up Gabe's dive computer from the quarry dive shop Gabe
01:19:20
took out the batteries and replaced them again the night after the wedding this reset the internal clock in the computer
01:19:26
back to the default date of January 1st 1996 the computer consisted of two parts
01:19:32
the transmitter as well as the wristwatch each of which took a separate battery when Gabe came back up from his
01:19:39
first dive attempt saying his wrist dive computer was beeping at him he said that
01:19:44
he took the battery out and put it back in the other way he did this back on board the spoilsport he told the dive
01:19:50
crew as well as policing both his interviews that this fixed the problem an expert who worked for the company
01:19:57
that made the Gabe's dive computer told police and the later testified at the inquest that if the battery was in
01:20:03
backwards in the wrist component of the computer there would not sound an alarm that would just not operate in order to
01:20:11
sound an alarm the battery would have to be backwards in the transmitter which is
01:20:14
attached to the regulator the beeping would be the transmitter alarming Gabe that his wristwatch computer was not
01:20:20
receiving a signal so basically flipping the battery in just the wristwatch alone
01:20:25
would not stop any alarm Gabe never mentioned flipping the battery in the transmitter just the
01:20:32
wristwatch it is this information that would cause controversy later on as diavik spurts
01:20:38
questioned why police didn't test gabe's or Tina's transmen on tests on the transmitters could have provided crucial
01:20:45
information especially on air pressure from the dive tanks police then pieced together statements from the dive crew
01:20:52
and passengers in order to paint a picture of gabe and tina getting ready for their dive luiz the volunteer
01:20:59
deckhand had watched the gabe and tina gear up she said that Gabe was trying to put the
01:21:04
regulator on the wrong way she also said that Tina was very clumsy and didn't really seem to know what she was doing
01:21:10
Gabe was very controlling of the situation and had been the one to put Tina's BCD on as it was hard to do what
01:21:17
he also put the regulator on her tank the we said that after their first dive attempt when they returned to the boat
01:21:24
she was on the dive deck when Gabe asked where the extra weights were for Tina's
01:21:28
best Gabe said Tina felt she needed more weight as she didn't think she could get
01:21:33
down Louise didn't see Tina or Gabe collect more weights she just heard Gabe talk about it in fact no one saw them
01:21:41
adding more weight but when Tina's gear was examined it showed you is carrying over 20 pounds or 9 kilos of weight the
01:21:50
amount of way to divert carries on either a weight belt or in pockets within their BCD as Tina had are
01:21:56
dependent on the divers size their height and their weight tina should have been carrying about 8 pounds of weight
01:22:02
not 20 she had more than twice the amount she should have with the amount of weight Tina was carrying her BCD was
01:22:10
never going to float properly even if she pumped air into it it's well-known that when going from fresh water diving
01:22:16
like the quarry they had trained in two saltwater diving you need to add more weight but to put 20 pounds on Tina was
01:22:23
either irresponsible or deliberate regarding Gabe trying to swim down and save Tina an explanation as to why he
01:22:31
didn't is that he may have faced resistance from his BCD it may have been so inflated that when he tried to go
01:22:38
down after her it had too much hair making it impossible to go down further in order to kick down you physically
01:22:44
have to let air out of your BCD a stress than panicky diver may forget to let area meaning they would be unable
01:22:52
to swim in the autopsy showed a small amount of water in Tina's lungs this could have been caused by Tina passing
01:23:00
out with the regulator still in her mouth her mouth relaxing a little and a small amount seeping in but she had to
01:23:07
be unconscious for this to occur and there was no explanation from the autopsy as the how she could have become
01:23:12
unconscious police believed that there was a real possibility that Gabe turned her air supply off and to them when she
01:23:19
passed out turned it back on so no one would be the wiser and because she was heavily weighted she
01:23:25
dropped to the bottom Australian dive expert Michael Macfadyen disagrees he said for Gabe to turn Tina's air off he
01:23:33
would have to hold her and twist her valve it may have taken up to one minute to turn the valve off and for Tina to
01:23:39
breathe all of the remaining air from the hoses after her last breath it would take approximately 30 seconds for any
01:23:46
attempt to swim to the surface to cease and for Tina to pass out so from the time of starting to turn the valve off -
01:23:54
Tina becoming unconscious approximately one-and-a-half minutes Gabe would then have to turn her valve
01:23:59
back on Macfadyen suggests that Tina would have spat homeopathy out in a panic so Gabe would have had to either
01:24:06
hold it in place or put it back in after she became unconscious also that Tina would have been making desperate
01:24:12
attempts to get to the surface Macfadyen believes that Tina showed passive panic
01:24:18
as opposed to full-blown grasping for life panic an important indication of conditions under water is the air
01:24:26
consumption used from a divers tank it's known that after their first to dive attempt both Gav and Tina returned to
01:24:33
the spoil sport into their air was refilled to full after that for the time that Tina was under water
01:24:39
she used a considerable amount of air more than would be expected for the dive expert divers had said this can be
01:24:46
attributed to working against the current with a higher breathing rate or panic when a diver panic they breathe
01:24:53
faster and they use more air if Gabe turned to Tina's air supply off you would expect there to be more air left
01:25:00
in tank but a considerable amount had been used Detective Sergeant Campbell commissioned the report on the quality
01:25:07
of the air in Tina's tank in case something in the air quality had resulted in her death the report
01:25:13
concluded that there was nothing in the tank that could be caused for Tina's death there was much discussion around
01:25:20
the conditions of the current at the dive site some divers said it was mild and others said it was strong enough to
01:25:25
make in experienced divers panic panic could explain the extra air used from Tina's tanks it could be that Tina had a
01:25:33
panic attack in extreme situations penny could even explain passing air but if Tina didn't choke on vomit and her
01:25:41
regulator was in and her air supply was on how did panic explained death an analysis of Wade Singleton's dive
01:25:50
computer showed that he took two minutes to ascend the almost 30 meters to the surface with Tina
01:25:55
they took Gabe nearly three minutes the surface from 15 meters and Gabe wasn't pulling anybody up technically Wade
01:26:03
ascended at an unsafe rate meaning he could have gotten the bends but he did it because he was trying to save Tina's
01:26:09
life Gabe's ascent profile on his dive computer didn't show the bat out of hell tearing his gear off a scent that he
01:26:17
described to Tina's family detective sergeant Gary Campbell quote when we compared it to the results that had come
01:26:26
back from his dive computer we found that the Gabe had only descended to 15 meters and it took him between two and
01:26:31
three minutes to reach the surface to raise a call for help speaking to various people in the dive industry this
01:26:38
was classed by some as literally pedestrian under the given circumstances we compared that Diet profile of Gabe's
01:26:45
to the dive profile of Wade singleton Wade singleton had gone to twice the depth and from the point that he is
01:26:51
picked up Tina on the ocean for and gone to the surface he has covered twice the
01:26:55
distance he nearly half the time in addition to that he was carrying Tina who was not assisting in her own ascent
01:27:03
Gabe told police in his interview quote I probably never swam so fast in my life
01:27:11
detective Senior Constable Gehringer quote the next prominent point was gaged statement that Tina was sinking quicker
01:27:18
than he could keep up to her obviously we sought the opinion of a number of expert divers and all of them stated
01:27:24
that Gabe could have reached to Tina very easily in fact just with a couple of kicks of
01:27:29
his fins we also did research into his rescue qualifications and what we found is that he had been trained in bringing
01:27:35
unconscious divers to the surface so we realized that Gabe had manifestly downplayed these qualifications in
01:27:42
relation to his rescue certification the conclusion was that an experienced diver
01:27:48
or someone with training in rescue diving as Gabe had should have been able to save Tina in three simple steps one
01:27:56
dropping her weights to sharing air from a second regulator three inflating her or his BCD for a controlled ascent to
01:28:05
the surface no one could accept the notion that Tina was too heavy or too out of reach the safe with the amount of
01:28:14
experienced divers suggesting that it seemed like the result of a terrible accident at the hands of two very
01:28:20
inexperienced divers investigators looked into Gabe and Tina's diving experience they also had to
01:28:26
cross-reference this with information a couple had given to the trip director wade singleton during their interview
01:28:31
when they bought at the spoilsport something didn't add up Gabe trained at the dive site dive school at Pelham
01:28:39
quarry in Alabama with his high school buddy Mike Moore their instructor was Tom Jackson junior pool training dives
01:28:47
were done in a normal swimming pool and the other dives were done at the blue water quarry there was a private course
01:28:53
with just Gabe Mike and their instructor they paid extra for the accelerated course to become certified you have to
01:29:00
do four open water dives in water deeper than eight meters twenty-five feet but this didn't mean in the open water of
01:29:07
the ocean these open water dives were within the quarry in which they built timber structures to create separate
01:29:13
pools although very cold the disused quarry has great visibility no current and is
01:29:19
often described as very easy to dive at the bottom there are old cars school bus
01:29:25
firetruck and various structures to explore as you dive gabe's first dive was recorded in his logbook as a snorkel
01:29:32
another was listed as being done in the aquarium at Disneyland he then received his certification over for dives - at
01:29:40
the quarry and - in Florida at Morrison Springs an inland spring dive site also not in true open water but enough to be
01:29:48
certified his underwater training at that point had been a total of 157 minutes gabe then moved on to some ocean
01:29:57
shipwreck dives in florida before he and mike returned the blue water quarry to train with Tom Jackson Jr again this
01:30:04
time they trained for their advanced open water nitrox and to rescue diver certificates
01:30:10
during their rescued diver training they practiced saving each other and bringing
01:30:14
each other up to the surface with the three easy steps Mike however said he didn't think the
01:30:19
rescue training was anywhere near enough to get the skills required agency standards allow instructors to teach the
01:30:26
minimum standards but that can mean their students are poorly prepared for diving the open ocean or great depths
01:30:32
Gabe then did some more ocean dives at wrecks in Florida and he and Mike took a diving trip to Mexico Tina followed in
01:30:40
Gabe's footsteps and decided to get her diving certificate in early 2003 so that
01:30:45
she could go diving with Gabe on their honeymoon she spent eighteen hundred and fifty bucks on scuba gear before she
01:30:51
even started so she was adamant she was going scuba diving the first day of her course was one-on-one with Tom Jackson
01:30:58
jr. in a pool Jackson described her as extremely panicky the next day Tina didn't even
01:31:04
show up when Jackson called her she said she found her mask difficult he enticed
01:31:10
her back indeed numerous one-on-one pulled odds with her to get her confidence up when she had the movie out
01:31:16
of the pool into the open water training in the quarry she was in a group the dive master Douglas Keckler who was
01:31:23
assisting Tina's training said that when they started in the four meter enclosed
01:31:27
pool he'll decide and would not move into the center the group then moved to the open
01:31:33
quarry and descended 20 feet Douglas K Clark quote I had taken a position directly behind Tina as I had
01:31:41
identified her as the student most likely to have problems during a section of the training where students had to
01:31:46
perform basic dive skills Tina panicked and shot towards the surface my job at that point was to
01:31:53
assure that her ascent was done at a controlled speed and to make sure she had a functioning regulator in her mouth
01:31:59
Tina did improve after more lessons and went on to receive her certification police had no choice but to investigate
01:32:08
Mike ball diving expeditions there were questions over whether the company had breached the laws and been negligent
01:32:14
permitting Gabe and Tina to dive the young gala as we mentioned before the company breaks divers down into a
01:32:21
traffic light system and uses this system to implement what is known as the safe scuba system in direct relation to
01:32:28
each divers experience and abilities they are categorized there's a green yellow or red diver as well as this each
01:32:35
dive itself is categorized as a green yellow or red dive that way for example a green diver who has the least
01:32:43
experience is only able to do a green dive unless they are under supervision they determine a divers color by
01:32:50
conducting the personal interview as well as having the diver fill out a form detailing their experience they also
01:32:56
check the divers qualifications and go over their logbooks once these are all completed the trip director labels the
01:33:03
diver into their tanks with colored tags they signify to other staff what level the diver is the traffic light system
01:33:10
says a green diver is someone who has completed less than 15 ocean dives they can dive in conditions of less than half
01:33:18
a meter swell and a minimum current a green diver must do a reef and wreck orientation dive first night dive must
01:33:26
be an orientation dive orientation divers can only be conducted by an insured my fault dive experience dive
01:33:33
staff member not regular crew after the orientation dive if the diver is assessed with marginal skills they
01:33:41
not do a dive without supervision if they are assessed with good skills no further supervision for green divers is
01:33:48
required a yellow diver is someone who is completed between 15 and 50 ocean dives they can dive in conditions of
01:33:56
less than one meter swells and a moderate current a yellow diver must attend the orientation briefing and a
01:34:02
debriefing prior to first the dive off a red diver is someone who has completed more than 50 ocean dives they can dive
01:34:11
in conditions of more than 1 meter swell and a strong current up to 20 knots a red diver can still be required to
01:34:18
undertake orientation dives the young girl a shipwreck dive was regarded as a red dive when Gabe and Tina were
01:34:27
interviewed they handed over their logbooks and do they completed their forms the form asked Tina and Gabe how
01:34:33
many dives they had completed not how many ocean dives Gabe wrote 55 dives for himself his logbook stated 56 dives but
01:34:43
one being the snorkel wasn't included this put him into the red diver category and as a result he had little
01:34:50
questioning from Wade but there was a problem with that the amount of ocean dives Gabe had completed was only 15
01:34:57
these were all supervised and he had not died in the open ocean for over four years Gabe didn't reveal any of this in
01:35:04
his interview and Wade didn't ask Gabe's average dive depth was 46 feet or 14 meters half of Gabe's dives were less
01:35:14
than 10 minutes and half his dives route at depth of less than 30 feet nine meters over Gabe's 55 dives only 13 had
01:35:23
been completed without supervision in reality Gabe was a green diver he may have just crossed over into yellow but
01:35:31
he certainly wasn't a red diver Tina's log book showed shared completed five dives since her training
01:35:38
approximately 90 minutes dive time in total all dives under 30 feet or nine meters and - no ocean dives whatsoever
01:35:47
Tina's three training dives were all listed as aborted dos Gabe norteña mentioned at the way during
01:35:54
the interview that Tina had some panic issues and although Tina's a logbook stated her training had aborted dives
01:36:00
Wade didn't ask her why Tina was well and truly a green diver under the code of practice she was still
01:36:08
allowed to dive the young gala but she required an orientation dive and even then depending on the outcome of that
01:36:14
she may have required supervision from a dive master Wade offered Tina an orientation dive twice both times Gav
01:36:22
and Tina declined but by law and under the safe scuba system Wade should have insisted Tina be taken
01:36:29
on an orientation dive Outland here are the responsibilities and duties which must be carried out by the dive company
01:36:37
and to the issues which were found in relation to Tina's case one duty of care trip director ensures the divers are
01:36:45
correctly tagged according to the safe scuba system color neither gave naughtiness tanks were tagged with the
01:36:51
appropriate color referring to their level of skill to ensure all elements of safe scuba system are implemented Wade
01:37:00
did not tag passengers and he did not insist on orientation dollars he also didn't put up a list of each diver into
01:37:08
their color status as was required three dive site selection young Galah doers last day and a half of expedition
01:37:17
between April and August can do his first day if weather is ok the spoilsport went to the young gala on the
01:37:25
first day of the expedition but it was October so outside the guidelines for each guests fills out safe diving
01:37:34
procedures form forms were not completed correctly five confidential meeting with
01:37:41
trip director husbands and wives meet separately so as not to influence each other's answers Gabe and Tina were
01:37:48
interviewed together six experience level coded plus orientations required noted on the safe diving procedures form
01:37:58
Gabe was coded incorrectly and it should have been insisted that team to be given
01:38:02
an orientation dive Gabe was also know qualified to be Tina's guide on the dive the manual also states that if a person
01:38:11
refuses to do an orientation dive as required by the safe scuba system then they must sign a form that warns them of
01:38:18
their consequences for example death Tina didn't sign a waiver form four months prior to Tina's death the
01:38:26
operations manager for might board eye of expeditions Craig Stevens sent a memo to all staff about the safe scuba system
01:38:33
titled dive procedures and workplace health and safety in the memo Stevens said he was aware that some staff
01:38:40
including trip directors were not always complying with marine safety dive procedures it also stated that if
01:38:47
procedures weren't followed and something went wrong then quote you may be liable to litigation a week later he
01:38:55
sent another memo reminding all trip directors that they must ensure green yellow and red highlighter pens are used
01:39:02
to color guests names police believed there was a possibility that Gabe had pressured Tina into getting certified
01:39:09
assuring her and her family that he would take care of her they believed he knew how anxious she was and knew she
01:39:15
would panic under water and he used it to his advantage to kill her but they didn't have a motive as investigations
01:39:24
continued in Australia Tina's family continued to push their claims foul play was involved back home in Alabama
01:39:31
detective grant Flint from the Helena Police Department quote I've got assigned to this case during my first
01:39:38
week as a detective I was real dismissive about it at first I said you know there's no way there's anything to
01:39:44
this I'll just call up the Australians and find out what I can for the family and
01:39:48
that'll be it Flynn spoke to Detective Senior Constable Gehringer quote in mid to late 2005 we had discussions with
01:39:57
Brad Flynn at the Halina Police Department and we undertook the process of a mutual assistance agreement for him
01:40:03
to speak further to witnesses Brad also assisted us with some of the unusual behavior that Gabe undertook upon his
01:40:11
return to America and it wasn't just the reports of Gabe's strange comments around the time of
01:40:16
Tina's funeral or even the information regarding Tina's life insurance the guarantor was talking about arguments
01:40:24
had started between Gabe and Tina's family over Tina's grave detective for Brad Flint quote in speaking to the
01:40:31
Thomases there was a lot of tension with their relationship with Gabe and his family Tina's father had started telling
01:40:37
me that for some unknown reason the flowers that his family were placing on a grave were mysteriously disappearing
01:40:44
Tommy Thomas told Flynn that every weekend he would visit in his grave and place flowers there but by Monday or
01:40:51
Tuesday they would be gone tommy said we were pretty suspicious of it being him but the fact of the matter is why would
01:40:59
he do such a thing it didn't make sense detective Flynn I'll get a call shortly thereafter that Gabe had served a notice
01:41:07
that he wanted Tina moved what why would you want to extreme your recently dead wife's body you know why well he wants
01:41:16
to put it in a plot that he owns okay where is the plot that he owns about 100 yards away I had to go to the cemetery
01:41:25
and videotape it it was a cold blustery rainy day and it was like there was a higher power saying I am not happy with
01:41:33
what's happening here Tommy Thomas the day that happened was one of the worst days of my life
01:41:40
Gabe didn't come his father showed up with his friend and the two of them just kind of nonchalantly sat around while my
01:41:47
daughter was dug up loaded on the back of a dump truck and moved my thoughts kept thinking God Tina I cannot believe
01:41:54
if you're there and you're watching that you're having to see this detective Flynn after she was moved to the other
01:42:03
plot the flowers continued to mysteriously disappearing I needed to know who was doing it so I set up a
01:42:09
surveillance operation in the cemetery about 50 yards away and camped out for a couple of days and waited and waited and
01:42:15
waited and finally I've got what I expected Gabe pulls out a set of three-foot bolt cutters spends the next
01:42:23
10 minutes working on the cable finally you can see him pull the stake up grab the flowers tosses them in the street
01:42:29
tosses the cable in the garbage can and it drives away and I was just numb every
01:42:35
emotion in my body was exploding does looking at that video make me say that Gabe Watson killed her no I can't say
01:42:42
that does looking at that video made me think that his priorities are way out of
01:42:47
line and that obviously there is some deep-seated animosity and hatred towards the Thomas family that maybe we
01:42:53
underestimated absolutely there's a make me look at him from a different perspective you'd better believe it
01:43:02
according to Gabe's lawyer Gabe had meticulously cared for Tina's grave and took great care of it he claims that
01:43:10
Tina didn't like plastic flowers so he was removing them for her game's lawyer would also later argue that Gabe
01:43:17
removed the plastic flowers not because of animosity towards his wife but because of animosity towards his in-laws
01:43:22
who were calling him a murderer back in Australia the investigation into Tina's death had developed a theory detective
01:43:32
Senior Constable Karen ger quote when we first embarked on the investigation my initial thoughts were this was just a
01:43:38
tragic drowning we spent a couple of years investigating and as much as we followed the evidence we
01:43:44
corroborate Gabe's version Detective Sergeant Campbell quote we kept coming up with all these lives from Gabe and
01:43:52
our suspicions were growing substantially to the point that we believed that Gabe Watson had murdered
01:43:57
Tina on their honeymoon at the shipwreck SS young gala I believe Gabe claimed if there was a
01:44:03
problem with these dive computer to get Tina back out of the water and back to the spoil sport that enabled the
01:44:09
majority of divers to progressed through the dive site and thereby there were fewer witnesses as to what was going to
01:44:14
unfold when they rented the water gave his taken Tina far enough away out of what he perceived to be the visible
01:44:21
range of other divers police completed test dives and numerous reenactments including reenactments at the young gala
01:44:29
they tested whether it was possible to turn someone's air off under the conditions and within the time frame
01:44:34
Detective Sergeant Campbell quote I believe Gabe has pulled Tina face-first under his chest and from there he has
01:44:42
turned her off I believe she is fought back and probably one of the few truths that Gabe is set underwater she did
01:44:49
damage some of his diving gear she is probably dislodged his mask and/or regulator in a very short time that she
01:44:56
has been rendered unconscious he then realizes that he has to turn her air back on and he swims down under her
01:45:02
descending body and turns her air tank back on and this is the observations of dr. stutes who observed Tina and Gabe
01:45:09
underwater we tested our theory that someone of Gabe's build could embrace someone of Tina's build and turn off her
01:45:15
on the air tank and we determined that it could be done we thought we could show the means and opportunity in which
01:45:22
gave had taken Tina's life but we thought that we were lacking substantially in a motive around this
01:45:29
time in 2005 game had taken legal action in Alabama's Jefferson County Circuit Court to recoup the cost of their trip
01:45:36
after the travel insurance company refused to pay up Gabe was seeking forty five thousand dollars for the accidental
01:45:42
death plus compensation for trip interruption medical expenses phone calls taxi fares fees for extra credit
01:45:49
card statements and unspecified punitive damages for mental and emotional anguish
01:45:54
the action was dismissed by the court some years later in May 2008 it was dismissed at Gabe's request on the
01:46:01
grounds of the Australian investigation into his wife's there caused him to reasonably apprehend that he risked
01:46:07
self-incrimination in the case Gabe's Australian legal team had suggested to Gabe that it was not in his
01:46:15
best interest to pursue the insurance damages claim after citing the ongoing Australian investigation and risk of
01:46:22
self-incrimination Gabe's us-based lawyer Bob Austin added that Gabe would not be going back to
01:46:28
Australia voluntarily the following section quotes from the ABC news programme death Down Under
01:46:36
detective Flynn there was a need for Queensland detectives to come here but when we started to present that to some
01:46:42
of the superiors down there in Australia there was a lot of reluctance their feeling being that this was just a
01:46:48
tragic accident that took several years of the Australian investigation team pushing and pushing and pushing and not
01:46:55
giving up we finally got the approval they needed to be able to say okay look we believe it does deserve a good heart
01:47:02
a second look go do it it was over two years after Tina's death that investigators from operation Charley
01:47:09
Oswald flew to Alabama to meet detective Flynn and interview further witnesses Detective Sergeant Campbell quote when
01:47:18
we were conducting our inquiries in America we came across several witnesses who had witnessed some for want of a
01:47:24
better word low level forms of domestic violence by Gabe towards Athena in a sense that they never viewed any
01:47:31
physical assaults but controlling behavior they were at a pizza shop one day and Tina hadn't done exactly what
01:47:37
Gabe had wanted and he entered into the pizza shop and picked up some pizza and threw it at her the information we had
01:47:43
from various witnesses was the gaben purchased an engagement ring had told her about it had even shown her where it
01:47:50
was sitting inside the unit and told her she wasn't allowed to have it until basically he was ready to give it to her
01:47:56
Tina's father Tommy Thomas quote he tells her if she looks in the bag he's going to take it back into when she
01:48:04
first told me about that I said tell him to take it back tell him to do whatever he wants to do with it
01:48:09
why should you care don't let him do that for whatever reason she let him whether it was because of the fact that
01:48:16
she'd been a bridesmaid at all of her friends weddings and her sister's wedding to a point where she was telling
01:48:20
me daddy I guess I'm just going to be an old maid and I'm going to live downstairs police then learned from
01:48:28
Amanda Tina's best friend what had occurred prior to the wedding when Tina and Gabe broke up and then got back
01:48:34
together they discovered it happened it just before the engagement Amanda quote finally it got to the point where she
01:48:42
was like I don't know where we are right now I'm not really happy with it and that was about the same time when my
01:48:48
cousin was living in Atlanta and they had always kind of been attracted to each other and I mentioned well you know
01:48:53
Xander's living in Atlanta you could go you know just see how it would work out she went to see Xander for the weekend
01:49:00
and she discovered that it wasn't going to work out for them Gabe found out about this and he was furious two weeks
01:49:08
later at Easter Gabe proposed to Tina Amanda asked Tina if she was really happy about the engagement Tina took a
01:49:16
minute before saying yeah I guess so all this new circumstantial information led
01:49:22
Queensland police to ask themselves whether Gabe had motive to kill Tina over a combination of anger at her
01:49:28
infidelity as well as financially benefiting from her life insurance Tina's parents had endlessly lobbied for
01:49:35
police and governments in both countries to take view that Tina's death was not an accident but a case of premeditated
01:49:41
murder letters were written to the Queensland Police Commissioner a u.s. congressman a u.s. senator ended the
01:49:48
Halina Police Chief urging them to have the matter investigated as a murder in April 2006 Tina's family and Halina
01:49:56
police went public with their suspicions that Gabe had killed Tim they believed foul play was involved and started to
01:50:03
share their suspicions and their feelings the gay but nationwide Reverend degree quote I have no doubt
01:50:10
the Thomases believe everything they say but I see this as a vindictive grief somebody has to pay for what happened
01:50:17
pressure was put on Queensland investigators from operation Charley Oswald to make a decision and submit
01:50:23
their report coroner Glasgow who they were reporting to quote unless there is some decision on the matter soon the
01:50:31
father will generate considerable publicity over the perceived a lack of action over the death of his daughter
01:50:37
this lack of action will by implication reflect badly on the office of the coroner and on Queensland police you
01:50:44
will gather from my comments that I am concerned this matter has real potential for political embarrassment of a major
01:50:50
nature detective Senior Constable Gehringer quote tina died in october 2003 but the investigation entertainers
01:51:00
death was very complex and protracted in spend several years we had to track down
01:51:05
every witness that was at the Young gala on that day and those witnesses were now
01:51:09
scattered in a number of different countries all around the globe and in the process of that we had a major
01:51:15
breakthrough in the case we'd finally found an eyewitness dr. Stanley's thoughts was one of the doctors who
01:51:22
attempted to revive Tina when she'd been brought to the surface detective Flynn from Elena police Alabama had flown to
01:51:29
Boston and interviewed dr. Stanley's thoughts this is the witness who saw a diver who we thought was Gabe giving
01:51:35
another diver who we thought was Tina a bear-hug the following year on April 17th 2007
01:51:42
almost three and a half years after Tina's death Detective Sergeant Campbell and acting Detective Inspector Scott
01:51:48
Knowles from Queensland Police flew to Rhode Island New York to interview dr. Stewart again they needed to clarify
01:51:55
some things and had additional questions they also wanted him to demonstrate the
01:52:00
exact embrace that he saw so they could recreate it in another reenactment in this interview stood said the following
01:52:08
quote when I saw a diver one Tina my belief was that she was in distress her arm and leg movements were
01:52:16
disorganized and this is what caught my peripheral vision I believe that my training in accident and emergency
01:52:21
enabled me to recognize she was in distress I saw fear and distress on her face the look on her face was awful and I had
01:52:30
the belief that she knew she's in danger her eyes were wide open the larger male diver Dada - Gabe moved
01:52:38
on top of her and was basically a mirror image of her position they were horizontal diver one the female facing
01:52:45
upwards and the other two the male facing downwards the arms of the female diver one were outstretched to her sides
01:52:53
and her legs were moving flapping slowly up and down the arms of the male diver -
01:52:58
was circling the torso of diver one I am not in a position to say what the hands
01:53:03
of divers who were doing behind her back the arms of the male diver - were circling the torso of the female diver
01:53:09
one under her armpits this embrace lasted approximately 30 seconds however it is likely it was even less maybe 10
01:53:17
seconds when the two divers separated the female diver ones body movements did not change there was no organized
01:53:24
structure to her movements when they separated the male diver - ascended towards the surface while diver one
01:53:32
descended I was able to make visual contact with her after the separation of the two divers first short time diver
01:53:38
one was becoming progressively weaker as she was descending from this position at
01:53:43
this time I could not see the ocean floor diver one essentially disappeared into the blackness while I had the two
01:53:51
divers under observation I observed a no interaction between the two where either
01:53:54
of the divers masks or regulators came loose or appeared to come loose after diver one disappeared from my view I
01:54:01
accelerated my descent past the other divers in my group to catch my dive instructor I did this by going hand over
01:54:08
hand down the line I caught my instructor and started communicating did you see that did you see that in
01:54:14
reference to the two divers separating and diver one falling to the floor it was somewhere between 30 seconds to a
01:54:22
minute when I saw the third diver Wade with diver one diver one the femur appeared lifeless the third diver was
01:54:29
holding Dada ones regulator in her mouth and there was vomit coming from her mouth I then pointed out diver one and
01:54:35
three to my instructor and communicated that I should go to the surface to assist as a doctor my dive instructor
01:54:41
instructed me to remain with my dive group this was the brag through witness account the investigators needed
01:54:48
detective Flynn quote when I went and interviewed dr. Stewart who was very adamant about what he saw so that was
01:54:56
huge in her part because never in his statements that Gabe ever state that he had her in a bear hug he was always at
01:55:02
arm's length with her nothing any of that sort so that was a very vital piece of evidence to us the statement given by
01:55:10
dr. Stuart's has been cause of great debate as you have heard this account given a few years later is much more
01:55:17
detailed than the version he gave initially at the time of Tina's death and it has been argued that
01:55:23
investigators misinterpreted his description of the embrace the sounder more sinister
01:55:27
there is also criticism that Stutz was never interviewed properly at the time of Tina's death so he was never able to
01:55:34
give anything other than the brief version he did after interviewing Stewart's Campbell and Noel's flew to
01:55:41
Alabama at 6:15 a.m. on the 23rd of April 2007 they executed a search warrant on Gabe's home the warrant was
01:55:50
executed with the help of Special Agent Greg gage er from the FBI Campbell turned on a recording device
01:55:56
before entering they seized to Gabe's computer as well as other documents Gabe's father David and a lawyer Bob
01:56:03
Austin arrived shortly after Gabe and Austin agreed to speak to the Queensland police his mother Glenda quote he was
01:56:12
starting to be part of society again when they showed up it literally just threw him he was right back where he
01:56:18
started by this time Gabe had started a new relationship he was dating Kim a girl he
01:56:25
went to high school with Kim was two years below him at Hoover High they were photographed together in the high school
01:56:31
yearbook in 1997 Kim said by the time they met up again they had spent hours talking on the phone and she knew
01:56:38
virtually everything that had happened Kim bore a striking resemblance to Tina shoulder-length straight blond hair big
01:56:45
smile although Gabe denied he saw any resemblance the following day Campbell and Knowles
01:56:51
conducted another interview with Gabe it was done at his lawyer's office after the interview that took various other
01:56:57
statements including one from Tina's father Tommy back in Australia on the 9th of May 2007 mic board I of
01:57:05
expeditions pleaded guilty in the Cannes Magistrates Court for failure to comply
01:57:09
with its own safety procedures the company was fined $6,500 under the workplace Health and Safety Act with no
01:57:17
recorded conviction the maximum fine that could have been given was 187 thousand dollars six weeks later
01:57:25
investigators from operation Charley Oswalt produced a review statement of the investigation to the coroner David
01:57:31
Klesko after reading the report submitted by police the coroner David Glasgow according inquest into the death
01:57:39
of Tina Watson the investigation was criticized by some people for taking so long
01:57:44
but coroner Glasgow commended the investigation quote upon being fully resourced detective Gary Campbell has
01:57:52
produced - my enquiry as detailed and complete a picture as I have seen in my role as coroner the inquest started in
01:58:00
the Townsville coroner's court on November 13th 2007 four years following Tina's death it ran for 11 days then
01:58:08
returned for two days in January and again in April and June the coroner finally passed down his findings seven
01:58:15
months later on June 20th 2008 he deliberated a considerable amount more than 65 witnesses from around the world
01:58:23
gave testimony in person or by telephone Gabe Watson chose not to appear before the inquest but he was represented by
01:58:32
mr. Steve Zillman Tina's parents Tommy and Cindy were represented by mr. Harvey Walters Gabe's counsel submitted that
01:58:40
Gabe did not in fact give numerous versions of the events of the fatal dog enter the suggestion of multiple and
01:58:47
inconsistent versions was not accurate coroner Glasgow quote I have spent considerable time reviewing Gabe's
01:58:54
written and oral statements including the video records and have noted many inconsistencies which in some instances
01:59:01
were clarified to some in a later interview and others not games counsel submitted that there is no
01:59:08
logical and identifiable motives that might be able to explain this death there's one of murder and that police
01:59:14
had misinterpreted evidence of witnesses were inconsistent to quote their defense
01:59:19
police investigators have at some point determined that Gabe was guilty of murder and have endeavoured to construct
01:59:25
a case to that end rather than to simply gather evidence the coroner's response I have seen no
01:59:32
evidence of that there are only two persons who know or knew what in fact actually occurred one is Tina who could
01:59:38
not tell us and the other is Gabe it appears certain that at some point in time investigators considered some of
01:59:45
Gabe's explanations lacked credibility and it further appears to me that investigators gave Gabe the opportunity
01:59:51
to clarify matters which may have caused the concern investigators took thorough
01:59:57
steps to review and investigate all statements in their endeavor to determine what did occur during the
02:00:02
fatal dogs regarding the couple who Gabe says he tried to alert upon his assent to get help for Tina they responded via
02:00:10
email and denied that this ever occurred the coroner had this to say although admissible at the inquest this
02:00:17
would not be admissible in a criminal proceeding and that being so I could not take such denials into consideration in
02:00:24
determining if a prima facie case of murder was established against Gabe as a consequence I cannot dismiss Gabe's
02:00:31
claim that he did in fact contact a diver during his ascent faced with the denials on the one hand engaged contrary
02:00:39
assertion on the other I would be less than you may not to concede this has caused me concern as coroner I do accept
02:00:46
mr. Suleiman's submission that I cannot take the email denars into account in my
02:00:50
determination I therefore treat the issue as if I have no comment from these two divers in that issue
02:00:57
Gabe's changing story was examined by the inquest including the claim cross-referenced with expert testimonies
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that Tina was quote too heavy and I lost grip on her I tried to lift her to the surface
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this account was also crossed with the evidence of dr. stutes who had a different version of events Gage council
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said that the evidence against his client which could see him stand trial for the murder of his wife was largely
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circumstantial after all of the evidence was heard the coroner gave his findings
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quote I have to say that I thought it was a very thorough and complete investigation and is impartial and
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investigation as I've seen counsel submitted there were four possible medical reasons which would explain the
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drowning now firstly she had suffered a pre-existing condition a heart condition
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and the evidence from her specialists were that had been corrected and that was not a factor causing her death
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secondly there was a submission that it could have been caused by vomiting there
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was no evidence that that had obstructed her airway or the third matter where the
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vocal cords could have closed as a result of that obstruction there was no evidence of that and the final matter
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that panic could have resulted in her drowning I was satisfied that none of them or even a combination of them was a
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sufficient explanation for her drowning I deliberated quite a lengthy time and I
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came to conclusion that there was sufficient evidence there that a jury if they looked at it they could come to a
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conclusion that they had been any intent and that Gabe had deliberately murdered
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his partner I am satisfied there is evidence of sufficient reliability on each of these identified matters which
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when viewed in the context of all of the evidence satisfy me that a properly instructed jury could make a finding of
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guilt against Gabe Watson on a charge of murder in mr. Watson's absence Anya proposed to formally charge him and then
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address him through his solicitor in the terms of section 104 of the justices Act
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gave Watson I formally charge you that on the 22nd day of October 2003 at the site of the historical shipwreck Young
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gala forty-eight nautical miles southeast from the port of Townsville in the state of Queensland Gabe Watson
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murdered Tina Watson I request you advise your client that I have today addressed him in the following terms
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okay Watson you will have the opportunity to give evidence on oath before me and to call witnesses but
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first I'm going to ask whether you wish to say anything in the answer to the charge you need not say anything unless
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you wish to do so and you are not obliged to enter any plea you have nothing to hope from any promise and
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nothing to fear from any threat there may have been held out to induce you to make any admission or confession of
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guilt anything you say will be taken down and may be given in evidence at your trial I now ask gave Watson through
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his solicitor do you wish to say anything in relation to this charge or enter any plea to the charge no your
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honor coroner gave Watson is committed for his trial to the next criminal sittings of the Supreme Court to be held
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at Townsville in the state of Queensland on a date to be advised by the Director
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of Public Prosecutions I direct a warrant for the commitment for trial pursuant to section 108 of the justices
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Act 1886 to be issued for the arrest of the defendant gave Watson games lawyer indicated he would oppose extradition
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back in Alabama the Halina police were stunned detective Flynn quote it was like thank you God somebody else that
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has more credibility than me says you know what it's not wasted time I believe you I believe that there is something
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here Tina's family felt that their years of lobbying for answers had finally paid
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off Tommy Thomas quote Gabe got charged with murder in June and two months later
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after a brief from what I understand one or two week engagement he got married I'm sure she's a very good person but I
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suspect she doesn't know all the facts of the case on August 15th 2008 Gabe married to Kim Lewis Gabe said Kim's
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been very accepting of my past he also confirmed that there was no issue between them over him keeping photos of
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both Tina and Kim in his home office quote she knows that Tina and I were crazy in love and she doesn't make me
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have to forget that it's been nearly five years on November 28th 2008 five years after
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the death of Tina Gabe was indicted for murder in Australia he knew it was coming
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extradition proceedings began Gabe and his lawyers fought hard against extradition but then suddenly on May
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18th 2009 Gabe indicated he would no longer be fighting extradition and he would voluntarily fly back to Australia
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it wasn't a case of him growing tired and giving up on the extradition fight it's believed Gabe had accepted a plea
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deal something he his family and his lawyers denied Gabe's father David quote much to his
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credit and I loved him for it Gabe said let's just go deal with this he insisted on going by himself saying I
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don't want anybody crying everything will be fallin he left America with an outstanding murder indictment he left
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here fully expecting to stand trial for murder Gabe boarded a plane to Australia after
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a six-week process of preparing a Criminal Justice feasel when games surfaced in Brisbane there had been an
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agreement made if they dropped the charge from murder to manslaughter Gabe would plead guilty he would plead guilty
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to not having killed Tina but to not doing enough to save her Tina's family were livid Tommy Thomas was already in
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Australia quote I get a call from that Department of Public Prosecutions he goes Tommy I've got some good news
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well Gabe Watson's got off a plane in Brisbane this morning and he's under arrest and I said what in the hell have
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you all done and he said what I said what kind of deal have you all made I had gotten no indication from the DPP
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that there was even a possibility that he was going to get on a plane and come over in his own his attorneys had
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indicated all along that he would fight extradition to the very end all of a sudden what changed and I just couldn't
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help but believe there had to be some kind of deal made I'll get a call just as we anticipated they've asked us to
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consider a manslaughter plate and I said look we don't support it in no way form or
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fashion all we want is what he got charged for and what he was invited for we want that to go to court in front of
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a jury the evidence presented just like it should be Detective Brad Flynn quote we knew that it was out of our hands the
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decision had already been made dan what the family thought damn what the police thought this was going to be a moral
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victory for the DPP they could chalk it up as a conviction and we can put that money to other Australian interests and
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forget about everybody and I knew that that's what was going to happen Tommy Thomas when we went into court we still
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had this this hope in our mind that the judge would see through it that he would
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dismiss it and say we still had to go to trial when Gabe Watson appeared in court
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that morning the indictment read murder but it was obvious from the words used that he knew that the DPP would accept
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an alternative charge of manslaughter and he actually said not guilty to murder but guilty to manslaughter
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the prosecution immediately accepted Gabe's plea the Queensland to tape a page stated that Gabe Watson's
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manslaughter plea was accepted after a careful and a thorough examination of the admissible evidence the manslaughter
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play meant that from then on the Crown prosecutor was prevented from putting any evidence to the court suggesting
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that Gabe had deliberately killed Tina instead the basis of their case was that he'd failed in his duty to her as her
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dive buddy and it just left her to die detective Flynn quote failure to render aid to a dive buddy I mean you've got to
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be kidding me to me it was the equivalent of taking a homicide and convicting him of jaywalking despite the
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objections of Tina's family the manslaughter case was presented they gave a panicked had a split second to
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make a decision and had made the wrong one the judges sentence was made taking only these factors into account the
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judge Justice Peter loins noted that gave voluntarily returned to Australia he said it was significant because Gabe
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didn't know that it wouldn't be charged with murder he also noted Gabe's guilty plea justice liens quote you do
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not seek to pretend that your actions were other than what they were you failed to make any reasonable attempt to
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take the deceased to the surface I therefore accept that you're guilty of a very serious departure from the standard
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of care which was incumbent upon you with the result that your conduct is deserving of criminal punishment I
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consider that burden has been increased by the very extensive publicity which these events have occasioned I also
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accept that in that period you have been subject to accusations over which you are not guilty
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justice Lyons sentence gave to four years jail but suspended three years of the sentence so Gabe would only serve a
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12-month term associate professor David fueled an academic and former prosecutor
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quote there is a belief that he only came back to Australia because a deal had already been done that in itself
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isn't a bad thing if the evidence only pointed to me in sort of what would be a bad thing of course is if the charge had
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been reduced to manslaughter when in fact they could have proved the murder the coroner thought that the man should
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be committed for murder but the coroner only had to be satisfied that a jury could invent the DPP has to look at it
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from a broader perspective if there are no reasonable prospects of a conviction you don't waste public
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money prosecuting and what they would have to prove was that he intended to kill her and that's a very difficult
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thing to prove but clearly public opinion is swinging towards the fact that the deep a patient all the evidence
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they had and allowed a jury to make its own decision devastated at the ruling Tommy Thomas said he wasn't at all
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surprised that the judge ruled in that way because he didn't hear any of the evidence Queensland attorney general
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Cameron dick called the ruling manifestly inadequate and filed an appeal in the Queensland Court of
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Appeals the Alabama Attorney General sent a legal brief to Australian prosecutors that said Tina's life was
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worth more than 12 months quote living a 12-month sentence on Watson sends a terrible message to foreigners if you
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desire to kill your spouse Queensland should be your homicide estimation Tommy Thomas made a
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statement outside the court quote I believe that probably the entire Australian nation as well as our own
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country back home shares with us the shock over what we have just seen it's a total injustice it's ludicrous what we
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have seen he's allowed to take the easy way out he pleads guilty to manslaughter
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and then laughingly it looks like he's the victim as the sentence is being read on July 17th 2009 the appeal was heard
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by the Queensland Court of Appeals three judges heard the appeal the prosecution
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requested an increase to Gabe's prison sentence in order for him to serve an extra 18 months a total of two and a
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half years one of the justices wanted to dismiss the appeal another supported an
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extra 18 months behind bars the Chief Justice met them in the middle with his ruling it was ruled that Gabe would have
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an increase to his sentence of 6 months therefore serving a total of 18 months quote stupidity is revealed
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rather than wickedness malice is nowhere to be found in this respect the case must be less seriously regarded than the
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ordinary domestic killings where there is a distinct intention to harm detective Flynn quote when we got back
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from the sentencing Tommy and I looked at each other and I said I'm not done we're not done now it's my turn I'm
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going to see what I can do in my backyard with my rules with my people behind me and - let's see where we go
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the Attorney General in the state of Alabama truly King quote I don't believe that a man who dreams his wife should be
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shown leniency and to that's what is my perception happened I think we need to go ahead and make arrangements with our
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investigators and what we're seeking to do is to protect to Tina and not to just
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protect Tina but to honor her memory with a just sentence I don't believe she got that in Australia and I'm going to
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do everything in my power to make sure she does get it back at home in Alabama Alabama is a separate sovereign state so
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there is no double jeopardy that attaches I am NOT seeking to prosecute him on the same charges that he was
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prosecuted on in Australia I seek to prosecute him for charges that began in Alabama if that's what the evidence
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shows what the Attorney General detective Flynn Tina's family ended their lawyers were looking at was even
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though Tina's death occurred in Australia if any elements of the crime were cleaned in Alabama conspired in
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Alabama and executed in Alabama then they may be able to hold Gabe criminally responsible for that done Valeska
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assistant attorney general quote every jury in Alabama in my opinion could see how this case went down how it started
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here and culminated off the Barrier Reef where Tina died now I cannot promise you
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100% no prosecutor can if you want a percentage I'd say on 85% convinced that I can win this case they planned to
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charge Gabe with two counts capital murder and kidnapping with trickery alleging Gabe tricked Athena
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entertaining to dive trip her into going diving in Australia and tricked her to go diving that day in the state of
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Alabama a person found guilty of murder can face the death penalty not only can they face the death penalty Alabama is
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the only remaining state in the United States that allows a judge to overrule the jury and impose the death penalty
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themselves on the topic of capital punishment the Attorney General said Alabama is not a barbaric state that's
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looking to execute innocent people Alabama is a justice loving state that believes when its citizens are harmed
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the people who are responsible should face a just sentence in a court of law they started requesting all details
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evidence and findings from the Australian investigation including the coroner's inquiry Tommy Thomas quote
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there are so many horrific visions of what happened to our daughter I should have figured out some way to
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stop her from marrying him and I should have protected her because that's what fathers are supposed to do and I'm doing
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everything that I need to do now to try and get justice for her and to make up for that the justice that she deserves
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in all of this as bad as everything has been waged Singleton's been my hero because he tried to save my daughter he
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did everything he could to bring her up from the surface he got her up as quickly as possible he even helped in
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the resuscitation attempts he did everything he could do what Gabe should have done at that point Gabe's family
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into their attorneys were well aware what Tommy under the attorney-general were threatening Gabe's father David
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quote I think we were aware the Thomases and Troy King were conspiring but I'm not sure I appreciated the significance
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at that time I was still under the impression he would come home and we would begin to put our lives back
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together it's scary Gabe's family were advised by their lawyers to keep quiet and wait it out Tina's family had been
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so vocal campaigning for years in the years and to the Watsons felt that they had just sat in the background and
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weren't doing anything David Watson quote I'd be reluctant to go against our attorneys but in my heart I think had we
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been just as vocal and just as outspoken would it have changed anything we really
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felt like we were giving Tina a measure of respect by not engaging in this we're
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scared to death that keeps me awake at night but now Attorney General Troy King without knowing anything about the case
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wants to put my son to death it's time to speak out I don't think Gabe will get justice in
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Alabama because I think far too many people have already made their mind up if he's guilty of murder and to the
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Attorney General who is of course elected he's just going along with that Gabe's friends said things like never in
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a million years would anybody who knows Gabe think he did this and there's never been a doubt in my
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mind that this was anything other than an accident Gabe had a boat a lake house he was not in need of money he had
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investments he was making better than the average Joe and he never cared about money Gabe's mother
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Glenda quote he was found not guilty of murder any blame has been paid for his whole life has been in upheaval his name
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is being slandered his whole personality has been on public display and it has not been accurate I want nothing more
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than for Gabe to come back to Birmingham salvage his reputation and to get on with his life
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just before Gabe's release in Australia the Queensland Attorney General refused to hand over any evidence that could
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lead to Gabe being convicted in the state of Alabama they were very vocal about the fact that the death penalty no
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longer existed in Australia therefore they wouldn't be handing out any evidence unless the state of Alabama took the
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death penalty off the table Attorney General Troy King wasn't happy he felt that the attorney general's office in
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Queensland were obstructing a criminal process in Alabama but he did agreed to take the death penalty off the table on
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October 22nd 2010 seven years to the day after Tina boarded the spoilsport Alabama state prosecutors obtained at
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the to capital indictments against Gabe Watson in Jefferson County Gabe was released from prison on November 11th
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2010 he was transported to an immigration detention center in Melbourne until an official written
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statement confirming he would not face the death penalty if convicted was received by Australian authorities on
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November 25th 2010 Gabe was deported to the u.s. and are then charged with capital murder and kidnapping with
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trickery once Gabe arrived home he remained in custody for almost three weeks until his bond hearing in the
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Jefferson County Courthouse in Birmingham Alabama at the hearing the court heard that Gabe's motive for
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murder was financial gain and that he had claim to the murder in the state of Alabama they heard that in the wake of
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their wedding Gabe asked Tina to increase her life insurance policy by more than three times and to make him
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the beneficiary the judge told the prosecution quote motive is not sufficient to convict somebody you got
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to have some facts Gabe was released on a $100,000 bond by Judge Tommy nail the bond included additional conditions Gabe
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had to wear an electronic monitoring device and obey evening curfews the murder trial was set to commence on May
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23rd 2010 11 before the trial the probate court removed Gabe as an administrator of Tina's estate
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appointing her father as administrator after leaving her grave unmarked for almost three years until 2009 in light
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of the incident exhuming her body earlier Gabe was ordered to stay away from her grave as administrator tommy
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requested personal effects of Tina's be returned to the family Gabe appealed against the ruling and
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refused to provide the court with a list of Tina's possessions and refused to hand back photographs all positions on
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April 7th 2011 a month before the trial was due to begin Circuit Judge Tommy now
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indefinitely postponed the trial after state cutbacks left Alabama courts short on security they wouldn't be able to
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proceed until more bailiffs could be found to help deal with the expected crowds of the trial judge nail said he
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would have to shut down the other 11 courtrooms just to cope with the volume of people who would be present for
02:21:48
Gabe's trial the prosecution asked for up to 60 days notice on a new trial day because most of the prosecution of
02:21:55
witnesses lived outside the u.s. that was approved the defense asked the court to grant a motion to dismiss all charges
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against Gabe entirely on the basis that they were vindictive and violated the principle of double jeopardy by trying
02:22:08
him again in another jurisdiction over the same circumstances this was denied but prosecutors agreed to drop the
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charge of kidnapping with trickery they continued with just the charge of murder
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on the 13th of February 2012 what would have been Tina's 35th birthday the trial
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started with the death penalty off the table Gabe Watson faced life in prison without
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parole the trial was expected to last three weeks and expected around 10 Australian
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witnesses to fly over for their testimonies including Queensland Police Detectives and dive experts outside
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press from all over the world had assembled Gabe said a motionless in the packed courtroom while the prosecution
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and defense both delivered their opening statements Kim Gabe's wife sat by him every day one by
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one the prosecution called their witnesses dive experts friends and family Wade singleton Ken
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Snyder and others the defense argued to keep the video of Gabe destroying flowers attend his graveside out of
02:23:13
court the prosecution tried to keep them in quote these are the defendants own actions caught on videotape vandalizing
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his dead wife's grave the judge ruled against the prosecution and said that any evidence of Gabe's behavior
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following Tina's death was inadmissible Tommy Thomas was also blocked from giving evidence regarding Gabe's alleged
02:23:35
attempts to increase Tina's life insurance prosecutors highlighted the point that
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Gabe stayed on the spoil sport for 40 minutes while doctors worked on resuscitating Tina on another boat a
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short distance away Gabe explained quote that's not something I can handle I don't ever want
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to see one of my loved ones being worked on like that ever it became apparent to
02:23:58
those sitting in the courtroom that prosecution witnesses were starting to appear more like defense witnesses
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because what they said in answer to questions from the defense was equally or sometimes even more favorable to Gabe
02:24:09
then to the prosecution the defense was starting to run the show then mark Moore took the stand Gabe's
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old friend who he had done his dive training with Mike confirmed all the diving they had done together and
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confirmed that he and Gabe practiced rescuing distressed and unconscious divers as part of their rescue
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certification course Mike testified that both he and Gabe did open water dives in
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Florida into Mexico where they made a drifted olives in Briscoe current dive to a depth of 50 feet and struggled with
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visibility of less than a meter Mike Moore quote we had to go and get a diver sitting on the bottom and in fly
02:24:48
at BCD to get them Gabe and I did it to each other jurors then heard the interview where Gabe told Queensland
02:24:56
police he had not been trained to bring anyone to the surface in his rescue course under cross-examination Mike
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Moore acknowledged that all of their open water dives were under supervision On February 23rd 2012 ten days into the
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trial the prosecution rested after the prosecution finished presenting their case the defense made a motion for an
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acquittal saying the prosecution had not produced enough evidence this is a common occurrence
02:25:27
the defense often tries to get the case dismissed before they present their argument although it's rare for a judge
02:25:33
to agree with the defense and grant an acquittal but in this case judge nail agreed with the defense quote the only
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way to convict this man of capital murder is to use speculation and conjecture the state has failed to
02:25:48
establish an intentional killing this case is dismissed Gabe covered his face with his hands and
02:25:56
visibly sight in shock as the judge maybes ruling loud cheering and clapping erupted in the court from Gabe's
02:26:03
supporters Gabe looked on the verge of tears as he embraced his lawyers and family
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Gabe's defense attorney addressed the waiting press quote we all wanted justice what little information that was
02:26:17
presented by the prosecution the judge determined just wasn't enough Gabe's father David Watson quote every
02:26:25
court that had looked at this case determined my son did not intentionally kill his wife
02:26:30
I'm just so relieved hopefully he can put his life back together I hope everyone can begin to heal the rest of
02:26:37
his life would determine his legacy Gabe is a good kid Tommy Thomas quote there just seems to
02:26:45
be a lot more protection for the accused than there does consideration for the victim a week after his acquittal gage
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sat in his attorney's office for an interview with the local Birmingham News during that interview Gabe said quote I
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just came to the realization one day that I did what I did I can't change it so I just have to accept it and go on
02:27:06
with life never that I can remember at least outside of friends and family did I hear anyone say I can't imagine what
02:27:14
it would be like to lose your wife on your honeymoon I think that was totally forgotten in relation to the incident of
02:27:21
him removing flowers at Tina's grave he said quote sitting here now looking back
02:27:26
at me then I can say it was stupid there was a bonehead move that seemed irrational then with everything going on
02:27:32
and my state of mind they the people forgive and forget that or they choose to remember that I think there's been
02:27:40
too much hurt on both sides and I think it's time for everybody to get on with their lives the trip director Wade
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singleton quote I haven't been able to come up with an innocent explanation I've tried I've thought of different
02:27:55
possibilities but with the inconsistencies that were there they're just sort of rules our doubt
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unfortunately I don't know if we are ever going to find out exactly what happened after the judge acquitted Gabe
02:28:08
prosecutor Don Valeska spoke to some of the jurors quote I've just contacted some of the jurors they've already
02:28:16
spoken to the press here and said that if they had to vote on this case Gabe would not be leaving the courthouse
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