The Last Dive

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🗓️ 15 September 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In this Dateline classic, a getaway vacation to an island in the Caribbean for a stressed-out couple turns deadly when only one of them comes back alive. Dennis Murphy reports. Originally aired on NBC on July 6, 2012.

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0:00.0	It's hard to think that that could happen to him.
0:08.0	A dive instructor and his wife on a dream trip to the tropics, till a scuba adventure
0:14.0	turns into disaster.
0:16.0	He surfaces, screaming, the shallie.
0:19.3	She never reached the surface.
0:21.2	What happened?
0:22.2	Some 80 feet down.
0:24.6	Prosecutors called it murder.
0:25.6	So this is the classic motivation.
0:27.6	The other woman?
0:28.6	Yes.
0:29.6	A wife lost in the deep, fighting for my life.
0:33.6	A husband becomes the accused.
0:35.6	It turned off her air supply, killed her underwater.
0:38.6	Did that happen?
0:39.6	Absolutely not.
0:41.6	Now hold your breath for the twist.
0:44.6	That was one of the most surreal moments of my life.
0:47.6	The last dive.
0:53.6	For most of us who enjoy spending time in the water and an occasional swim, a dunk in
0:58.1	a backyard pool will suffice.
1:02.1	But for the more adventurous, only total immersion in the open ocean will do.
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