Terrifying and CREEPY Diving Stories

Lost and Found…
Here’s a creepy story, submitted by team-pterodactyl on Reddit I tells the story of how a diver found a body on the ocean floor. Off the Florence / Oregon coast, he and some friends went for a dive and were not expecting to find a surfer that had gone missing a few days prior. The surfer had been exposed to crabs and fish, and was basically just a torso, skull and skeletal limbs – while all exposed bits were fish food.
Movies are made from this…
This tragic tale was actually made into a movie, and features the story of Tom and Eileen Lonergan who went missing in 1998. The couple were diving on the Great Barrier Reef and their tour boat accidentally left them behind. Nobody realized they were missing for 3 whole days! Search parties were sent out, but the couple could not be found. 17 aircraft, helicopters and boats were dispatched to find the couple, but the search was fruitless. They searched for many days until they eventually found Eileen’s wet suit and a divers slate begging for help. Sadly, the bodies were never recovered and it was assumed they were devoured by sharks. The 2003 movie, Open Waters, was all about this exact incident.
Dive In…
You might be surprised to learn that there is a society that exists called the Paranormal Divers. It’s the job of these divers to go underwater to look for anything paranormal. They claim to have taken the world’s first photo of an underwater ghost. One diver claims to have heard screams coming from the bottom of a cavern that they were diving in, and snapped this image which they believe looks like a diver’s face mask.
Double Tragedy…
This tragic tale took place in Bushman’s Cave in South Africa, when in 1994, Deon Dreyer drowned. He was 20 at the time, and had already accomplished 200 dives. Sadly, the body was never found and his parents left a commemorative plaque at the cave. A decade later, while diving in the cave – David Shaw discovered the body in depths of 890-feet. He and his friend Don Shirley went back to try and recover the body. Things went really badly for the men, as Shaw lost his light below the surface and became tangled in the ropes they were using to hoist the body up and Shirley had his equipment malfunction. Shirley developed a helium bubble, lost consciousness, was spinning, disoriented and struggled immensely to try get out of the cave. He was trapped in the water for 10-hours without realizing that his friend, Shaw, didn’t make it. Sherley suffered permanent damage in the process, and eventually the body of Shaw did float to the surface with the body of Dreyer attached. They did achieve what they set out to, but at an unimaginable cost.
2 - Mysterious circumstances…
There’s still confusion about what exactly happened with Bethany Farrell, a 23-year old student who passed on during her first scuba dive. She was so excited for this amazing opportunity, but things went horribly wrong. She somehow got separated from her instructor and within half an hour, she was lying on the seabed, no longer alive. When investigations were taking place, her family wanted all her photos from the day of the tragedy, and strangely – every single photo from the boat had been deleted. No foul play was suspected, but it doesn’t explain why all of those images are gone. Very, very weird.
Foul Play...
This is a story that captured the attention of media across the world. It involved a newly wed couple who went off on their honeymoon, and only one returned. The image that was captured was purely accidental, but it says everything. You see the lifeless body of Tina Watson on the seabed floor. Her husband, Gabe, was accused of orchestrating it. They were diving near a shipwreck in Townsville, Australia, when Tina became distressed and reached for Gabe’s oxygen mask. Her husband, who was an experienced diver and who also had a rescue qualification, did nothing to help her. Instead he watched as she sank downwards and he swam toward the surface. The coroner stated that Gabe switched her air off, and then switched it back on when he pushed her down, knowing she wouldn’t make it. He was found guilty, and had to spend a few years in jail in Australia. He has since remarried to someone who bears a strong resemblance to his former wife.