[diverteach]

The article doesn’t give much information and appears that only a now produced photograph is providing circumstantial evidence only.

Based only on information given it is highly plausible and the women did in fact panic and sink while the husband didn’t have enough air to give chase.

[Freedom Dignity n Honor]

IIRC, he was seen giving her a bear hug for a period of time before she started sinking to the sea bed. The theory was that he had turned her oxygen off and was holding her while she died then he turned it back on and let her go.

At least if I am remembering right.

[driftdiver]

“Based only on information given it is highly plausible and the women did in fact panic and sink while the husband didn’t have enough air to give chase.”

In other stories the facts are a bit more illuminating. For one the other very experienced divers on board did not buy his story.

You don’t sink because of panic. There are only two ways to sink at that depth. First is you are overweighted, second you release the air out of your BC.

Women that panic generally shoot for the surface. Unless of course they can’t.