In the end do they both die?
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milmafia — 16 years ago(August 30, 2009 01:52 AM)
Ok people, here's my theory
The cover indeed says it's all based on a true story, but shouldn't at least one of them have survived the drama? How can anybody now know what actually happened out there?
So besides the fact that nobody knows the real story since the boat left them, also the whole part at the beginning is unknown. For example the fact they planned their holiday in a hurry, they never talked about it with anyone.
So what I want to say is: you can like the movie or not, but please don't say it's based on a true story.
Ah, and to answer your question: yep: she died! She gave up because of the loss of her husband and once he was eaten by the sharks, she took off her gear (no more oxigen and now more "floating capacity" and let herself sunk to the bottom.
Greets,
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bsteward-2 — 16 years ago(September 20, 2009 08:37 AM)
Very very loosely based on a true story. Nobody knows how they died since there were no survivors. In real life they could have both been murdered at sea, died in some freak scuba accident or even ripped apart by sharks immediately and not have floated around for hours. I think the words "Based on a true story" is sometimes used in movies when it shouldn't be, and this is one of those times.
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biskvito — 16 years ago(September 26, 2009 05:47 AM)
I see what you both are talking about, but this still is based on what is known about the story, it doesn't say it IS the true story it's based on the written board found by the fisherman, and on the loose equipments without marks of bites, suggesting they got rid of the equipments, maybe hallucinating on dehydration
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kitsune4 — 16 years ago(October 25, 2009 02:50 PM)
Its based a true story about two people left behind on a scuba diving trip. It is BASED on a true story, its not THE true story. When someone says its based on a true story, it can mean just the concept. So yes this is based on a true story, even if what happens in the movie isn`t what actually happened to the two people from real life
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IMDBmurphy — 15 years ago(May 19, 2010 09:45 PM)
and let herself sunk to the bottom.
You won't
sink
in salt water.
Daniel didn't just sink either although he still had his weights on, he was obviously pulled down by the sharks.
Susan was not, and she even detached her weights earlier and took off her gear at last (as you wrote yourself), so
there wasn't any comprehensible reason for her not to continue floating up.
Drowning yourself by just dipping below the surface is utterly arguable.
Therefore the end was as unrealistic as confusing as annoying. That nonsense ruined the whole thing
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steven-oneil-1 — 15 years ago(July 09, 2010 02:40 AM)
Like all movies based on real events there's a degree of licence allowed and this movie appears to follow reasonably closely what occurred. The real life couple were called Tom and Eileen Lonigan (I saw a documentary about it last month) and they were indeed left stranded due to a counting error on the diving boat. It's believed that they may have died of dehydration or, suffering from delirium, shed their wetsuits and drowned later due to exhaustion. It's not believed that they died of shark attacks because parts of their wetsuits were found and showed no sign of tears caused by shark bites but it wouldn't make a very good movie to watch two people dehydrate and die would it?
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pt100 — 13 years ago(October 17, 2012 03:05 PM)
The true story of Tom and Eileen Lonergan was covered in an episode of The Investigators (a series on TruTV) titled Deep Secrets:
http://www.imdb.com/board/11166368/
Here's the Wikipedia entry for them:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_and_Eileen_Lonergan
Here are a few relevant snippets from that article:
"Several theories were suggested surrounding their disappearance. At the time, it was suggested that the Lonergans might have staged their disappearance. However, the Lonergans' bank accounts were never touched and their insurance policies were not claimed."
"Fishermen found a diver's slate (a device used for communicating underwater) and wrote down what it reportedly read: "[Mo]nday Jan 26; 1998 08am. To anyone [who] can help us: We have been abandoned on A[gin]court Reef by MV Outer Edge 25 Jan 98 3pm. Please help us [come] to rescue us before we die. Help!!!"
"The coroner dismissed suggestions that the Lonergans had either committed suicide or faked their own disappearance, and formally charged Jack Nairn, skipper of the dive boat, with their unlawful killing. He was later found to be not guilty, but his company was fined after pleading guilty to negligence." -
IMDBmurphy — 15 years ago(May 19, 2010 09:49 PM)
Did you miss the very end?
Their camera was found.
So at least it was assured that they both died in open water.
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Buff70 — 13 years ago(January 26, 2013 05:30 PM)
This was based on the true story of a couple named Tom and Eileen Lonergan who died at sea because they were forgotten during a scuba diving excursion.
This happened in 1998.
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ravi-shankar-kgr — 16 years ago(August 31, 2009 02:56 AM)
Not confusing both die, but she giving it up ahhh, the writer could have found some other way .
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Crepusculo — 16 years ago(November 02, 2009 02:33 AM)
The movie might not have been all that much, but the story itself is really creepy, specially since it's bases on real events. Just think about it, how something like this happened and put yourselves in the same position. The scene at the end portraits the horror, when she is surrounded by sharks until she just gives up. She was't pulled down, she looks around, sees all the sharks and just thinks "either they start eating me or i just drown myself". What would you do?
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Mixalidis — 15 years ago(May 06, 2010 11:06 AM)
"Based on true events" thing is used just to sell these horror movies.
They don't know a thing except that two people disappeared then you can say every movie is based on true story, because something similar somewhere sometimes happened.
At the end the sharks realized that she was a good person, so they all became friends and took her to their underwater city, where she became a mermaid and lived happily ever after.~
Must be it!