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mark willoughby
21-09-2004, 16:47
ok thats it for me no more diving!!!!!
what a sad depressing film that was....just shows you how incompatent some dive centres are
they did a miscount on the boat of 20 divers, there was 22 on the boat...so when 20 returned off they went minus 2 divers who then got eaten by sharks.
mark
David Walker
21-09-2004, 18:44
what a sad depressing film that was....just shows you how incompatent some dive centres are
Funny how someone being left behind once makes it into a film, yet the probably tens of millions who get back with no incident don't...
they did a miscount on the boat of 20 divers, there was 22 on the boat...so when 20 returned off they went minus 2 divers who then got eaten by sharks.
Mind I have to say that with the system on the boat in the film the miscount did seem very plausible. It's not that they counted what they were counting wrong, just that someone got out of the water twice and so they were really counting the wrong thing.
David
edward haynes
21-09-2004, 21:12
He died from exposure (and we were not shown what eat him), she decided to take her own life by drowning (end of a very boring film).
Edward
ok thats it for me no more diving!!!!!
what a sad depressing film that was....just shows you how incompatent some dive centres are
they did a miscount on the boat of 20 divers, there was 22 on the boat...so when 20 returned off they went minus 2 divers who then got eaten by sharks.
mark
ok thats it for me no more diving!!!!!
what a sad depressing film that was....just shows you how incompatent some dive centres are
they did a miscount on the boat of 20 divers, there was 22 on the boat...so when 20 returned off they went minus 2 divers who then got eaten by sharks.
Wakeup call. This is no more factual than Jaws is. The movie is a work of fiction, very very loosely inspired by the Lonergan incident in Queensland AU.
Given that no-one knows what happened to them after they went missing, the only factual element is that 2 people got left behind after a miscount occurred.
The Queensland Workplace safety rules have been tightened up since the event such that every boat passenger has to sign themselves in before the boat is able to leave a site
Dave
Gordon Nimmo
22-09-2004, 08:39
Yep, the film was pretty poor. I went to see it out of curiosity. The person sitting the row in front of me actually left half way through the film. Thats saying somthing eh?
Its 2 hours of my life I cant get back....
Eric Russell-Brown
22-09-2004, 09:49
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I suspect that the original poster is trolling for a negative rection.
We all know the film is fiction and that the fate of the Lonergans is unknown.
Don't feed the trolls
mark willoughby
22-09-2004, 11:14
Journalist ALERT
I suspect that the original poster is trolling for a negative rection.
We all know the film is fiction and that the fate of the Lonergans is unknown.
Don't feed the trolls
i agree i felt like leaving half way through as i was having a problem keeping awake...i agree a very boring crap film...that will make loads of people who know nothing about diving say "thats it ive seen that film open water..you will never get me diving"...very sad.
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:=We all know the film is fiction and that the fate of the Lonergans is unknown.
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i agree i felt like leaving half way through as i was having a problem keeping awake...i agree a very boring crap film...that will make loads of people who know nothing about diving say "thats it ive seen that film open water..you will never get me diving"...very sad.
Sounds Like a Dive with Wearside Dive Club :-)
Steve Walker
22-09-2004, 20:07
ok thats it for me no more diving!!!!!
what a sad depressing film that was....
I doubt any keen divers I know would give this film the slightest bit of credence, and the only sad and depressing truthful element to it is the sterotypical and wholly inaccurate anti-shark propaganda. In such a situation dehydration would be my concern, not the sharks.
John Williams
22-09-2004, 20:48
...that will make loads of people who know nothing about diving say "thats it ive seen that film open water..you will never get me diving"...very sad.
Wasn't it you who started this thread with...
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ok thats it for me no more diving!!!!!
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It seems that you have fallen victim to your own nonsense then - because you clearly...
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know nothing about diving (from you last post)
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mark willoughby
15-10-2004, 15:17
...that will make loads of people who know nothing about diving say "thats it ive seen that film open water..you will never get me diving"...very sad.
Wasn't it you who started this thread with...
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ok thats it for me no more diving!!!!!
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It seems that you have fallen victim to your own nonsense then - because you clearly...
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know nothing about diving (from you last post)
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John
john
do you have a sense of humour or what...im an owi/advanced diver...do you think i meant what i said in the opening thread...get a sense of humour mate.....sadly lacking in a lack of dive clubs ...that o do know....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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