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When an American snorkeler on a tour of the Great Barrier Reef raised his head out of the water, he was shocked to discover that his tour group had left him behind.
“I lifted my head up and I saw the boat had gone—it had left me,” Ian Cole, 28, told The Cairns Post.
Cole was diving in Michaelmas Cay on the afternoon of Saturday, June 25. There was no sign of the tour boat Passions of Paradise. He swam to another vessel owned by the same company and workers radioed Passions of Paradise to return and pick him up.
The employee responsible for conducting headcounts on the boat was subsequently fired for breaking the rules by not obtaining Cole’s signature before departing the area.
Stricter headcount rules have been in place since the disappearance of U.S. dive couple Tom and Eileen Lonergan in 1998.
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