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Lost Divers Asked To Pay Rescue Costs
A British diving instructor and his American girlfriend, who were
rescued after drifting for 19 hours at sea in Australia, have been told
they should pay for their rescue costs. Richard Neely, 38 and Alison
Dalton, 40, became separated from their charter boat off the Great
Barrier Reef, Queensland.
In a paid interview with the Sunday Mirror, the couple described how they were caught in a strong current when they surfaced 200m from the boat. Neely said he deployed a delayed surface marker buoy and used whistles to attract the boats attention, but was dragged away by the current.
'We were shouting and whistling, but nobody saw us,' Neely told the Sunday Mirror. 'We saw other divers climbing back on to the boat. The boat stayed where it was, on a mooring, but we just kept drifting further away. There was nothing we could we do.'
Ditching weights and using belts to tie themselves together, Neely, a British diving instructor in Thailand, and Dalton, a dive master from America, huddled together until they were rescued...
In a paid interview with the Sunday Mirror, the couple described how they were caught in a strong current when they surfaced 200m from the boat. Neely said he deployed a delayed surface marker buoy and used whistles to attract the boats attention, but was dragged away by the current.
'We were shouting and whistling, but nobody saw us,' Neely told the Sunday Mirror. 'We saw other divers climbing back on to the boat. The boat stayed where it was, on a mooring, but we just kept drifting further away. There was nothing we could we do.'
Ditching weights and using belts to tie themselves together, Neely, a British diving instructor in Thailand, and Dalton, a dive master from America, huddled together until they were rescued...
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