Five Years Diving for a Husband Who Faked His Death

My husband, the ship's captain, was lost to the deep in a sudden sea storm.

Trying to save him, my sister joined the ocean rescue and was swept off by the waves too, her body never recovered.

The public mourned with one breath and turned on me with the next.

They accused me, a diving instructor, of failing to bring my own family back alive, and they wanted me to pay with my life.

Even the front of my house was smeared with vicious curses.

A single obsession kept me standing.

For five whole years, I pulled on my wetsuit and dove into those waters again and again, searching.