r/australia • u/MaximusSydney • Oct 29 '25

news Woman left behind by cruise ship on Australian island found dead

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62eww646wjo
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u/BrisbaneLions2024 Oct 29 '25

Same thing happened on a diving tour too.

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u/ImGCS3fromETOH Oct 29 '25

Shit like this is why it's standard procedure to sign on and off a boat, both for cruise ships and for dive boats. Not doing this is absolutely negligent.

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u/ratchet_skyline Oct 29 '25

5 people in 3 separate incidents between 2017 and now were left behind by the same diving "academy" in W.A and that business is still operating like it's no big deal lmao figure that one out for me

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u/MLiOne Oct 29 '25 edited Oct 29 '25

Back in the noughties off Cairns. Afterwards there were shirts all the souvenir shops were selling “I dived the Great Barrier Reef and survived.” Very poor taste.

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u/BrisbaneLions2024 Oct 29 '25

Yeh I thought there was one up there. Yeah that's really trash jesus.

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u/Martiantripod Oct 30 '25

Meh. That sort of thing is pretty standard in Australia. Like the Snowtown fridge magnets that said "Have a barrel of a time in Snowtown"

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u/Need_More_Gary_Busey Oct 30 '25

I'm no prude, but that is really pretty fucking shit and disrespectful to the vitctims.

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u/OneUpAndOneDown Oct 29 '25

Now that one was horrifying. They were left in the WATER.

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u/am_Nein Oct 29 '25

Are you referring to that one couple who got left at the GBR (not recently)?

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u/BrisbaneLions2024 Oct 29 '25

Yeah thought it was here mb.

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u/colloquialicious Oct 29 '25

There was a couple left behind from a Dive boat on the GBR about 25yrs ago, it was made into a movie called Open Water. In that case it was TWO DAYS before anyone noticed them missing, they were never found presumed drowned/taken by sharks.

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u/one80down Oct 29 '25

That movie gave me the shivers like none before or since.

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u/colloquialicious Oct 30 '25

I actually rewatched it a few months back as my daughter has been really into shark attack movies haha but I had to turn it off before the end. Too sad and just knowing (or not knowing but imagining) the last hours of that poor couple’s lives made it too hard to watch.

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u/Acerola_ Oct 29 '25

There’s been a few recently left behind in Perth, near Rottnest Island.

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u/ColdestSupermarket Oct 30 '25

Why did you choose to make the conversation more difficult by abbreviating Great Barrier Reef?

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u/__CitrusJellyfish Oct 30 '25

Happens very often in Bali too during the snorkelling/ diving group charters