Divers Sell Story For $1.1m As The Blame Game Begins

A PASSENGER on the dive boat from which a couple went missing for 19 hours off the Queensland coast has hit out at reports that the dive company was to blame for the potentially disastrous incident. Meantime the couple has reportedly been paid $A1.1 million by the Sunday Mirror for their story. American Alison Dalton and Briton Dick Neely clung to each other in darkness and high seas in shark-infested waters near Hayman Island, after they drifted away from the dive boat Pacific Star on Friday afternoon.