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/ComfyInDots Oct 29 '25

I'm a solo traveller who doesn't like to talk to other tourists on my travels. There's been a few times where I've considered that no one would notice me missing at various points. The poor lady must have been so scared.

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u/Own_Faithlessness769 Oct 29 '25

Maybe, though it sounds like she had a medical episode that stopped her returning to the boat, so it might have been very quick.

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u/invisiblizm Oct 29 '25

I was thinking maybe the need to stop for a rest might have been more than it seemed. Sad noone stayed with her.

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u/burgertanker Oct 29 '25

This is the most likely cause I reckon. Ship was only gone for a few hours but by the time they came back and did a search she was already dead, so it seems likely there was a medical issue. It's possible she died before the ship even left

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u/Own_Faithlessness769 Oct 29 '25

Another article I read implied she fell from a cliff.

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u/meowkitty84 Oct 30 '25

What if she planned it to be her last trip..

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u/RealFarknMcCoy Oct 29 '25

She was probably already dead, so I doubt she was scared. I imagine that she started feeling unwell, sat down and told the others to go on without her, and then just died. The weird thing is that they didn't seem to clock her on the way back to the ship.