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Miracle rescue of UK diving couple lost for 7 hours in shark infested waters
Smithsgold - 9/13/2016 11:52 AM
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Miracle rescue of UK diving couple lost for 7 hours in shark infested waters: Pair relive their terrifying ordeal after being stranded in a tropical storm
Cumbria couple Jeff and Julie Byrne, both 52, were diving off Mauritius
But boat left while they were underwater and did not return to them
They were 50 yards from shore - but dive master said to swim out to sea
A riptide carried the divers further out before a huge a storm hit the area
Jeff felt two bumps from a suspected a shark during the 7-hour ordeal
Julie said: ‘We thought we were done for, that we’d perish in the water’
A local authority found the skipper and the dive master were negligent

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