SHARK MONTH: Left at Sea- Tom and Eileen Lonergan, the True Story Behind "Open Water"
That's So Fcked Up
Ashley Love Richards
4.5 • 541 Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2024
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Happy Shark Week! This week Ash and former co-host Michelle talk about two poor souls, Tom and Eileen Lonergan, who were forgotten at sea while scuba diving!
Michelle tells Ash about the true story behind the movie Open Water. Tom and Eileen were two young and in love, recent Peace Corps workers, who were just married on their way to start their adventurous new lives. Their first stop was scuba diving on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. But they rose to the surface of the water to find their boat gone, and they were never heard from again.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody, and happy summer. |
| 0:03.3 | Hope you're enjoying your vacations. |
| 0:07.0 | And if you're at the beach, I hope that, I don't know, maybe you listen to these episodes |
| 0:14.1 | when you're done with your beach vacation. |
| 0:16.6 | Because as you all know, it is Shark Month on Discovery Channel. And if you know me, you know that |
| 0:23.1 | I fucking love slash hate and actually absolutely terrified of sharks. So here's an oldie but |
| 0:32.9 | goodie from me and Michelle. And make sure to tune in every Wednesday for more shark fun during July. |
| 0:41.2 | I know that today's Thursday, but I'm going to get back more on track with uploading episodes |
| 0:47.3 | on time now that our convention is passed, which was awesome. Also, it is my birthday week. |
| 0:54.6 | So if you have not yet left a rating or review, |
| 0:58.5 | I would appreciate it so, so much. |
| 1:02.0 | And if you have left one before, |
| 1:03.8 | you can always update it |
| 1:05.1 | and it'll go to the top and say something nice. |
| 1:07.6 | And that would be my biggest birthday wish. |
| 1:10.6 | Thanks, enjoy the episode. You don't be my biggest birthday wish. Thanks. Enjoy the episode. |
| 1:12.7 | You don't know where the coast is. You don't know if anyone knows where you're at. |
| 1:18.6 | You don't know if anyone's coming to find you. You don't know if you're ever going to get |
| 1:22.7 | out of the ocean. You are just completely and entirely alone. |
| 1:28.2 | No. |
| 1:28.9 | That is so fucked up. |
| 1:31.7 | It's fucked up. |
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