Justine Clark, an Australian scuba diver with 30 years of experience, along with her sons, Max, 20, and Felix, 18, booked an afternoon dive at an offshore site called The Supermarket, Fiji Islands, on August 14. The entire situation took a scary turn when their dive boat went missing, leaving them with nearly no means to reach the surface.

“We travelled into an approaching storm and out in open waters in what appeared to be a large channel about 20 kilometres from the island. No tender boat was visible on the surface, the swell was two metres, it was dark with grey clouds and high wind,” stated Clark.