Curacao - Amanda Waller, 28, of TX, last seen snorkeling, 25 June 2015

[Deleted member 96356]

Does anyone know:
- the average depth of the water where Amanda was snorkelling
- the distance from where she was last seen (when she signalled to Matt) and the beach where her pregnant friend was sitting?

ETA I have looked at the news links and didn't see this info, but apologize to all if it has been documented and I missed it, ty

 

[Faenorwyn]

This case still bothers me. I haven't found any updates either. HawksGirl I haven't seen the info you asked about reported anywhere either. Praying that she's found someday so her family can have closure.

 

[Deleted member 96356]

Thanks, Faenorwyn. Those seem like such basic facts when considering a case of possible drowning and I don't see them reported anywhere! :waitasec:

I am a fairly strong swimmer and have done some ocean snorkelling as well as shallow dives. And depending on currents, the farther out you are when you proceed to swim to shore can affect how accurately you "aim" for a particular spot to land. I have come ashore slightly off target due to currents - it is often far easier to just walk back up the beach than to have swum against current. Also, if you try to snorkel the whole way back (e.g. face down in the water) and are not careful to do frequent checks to see where you are in relation to shore, it is very easy to get off course. Obviously this is a minor issue if she was only a little way from shore, but more of a factor the farther out she may have been. If she did make it back to shore, I wonder if she came out at the "wrong" spot and something happened to her as she was trying to walk back toward her friend - detoured to use public facilities, went to return her gear (if she rented it), was disoriented and asked for assistance, etc.

Thoughts to the family and sincere hopes they receive evidence some day.

 

[Murkywaters]

http://crimefeed.com/2016/09/what-h...cuba-diver-who-went-missing-in-the-caribbean/

On June 25, 2015, Amanda Waller, a 28-year-old woman from Katy, Texas, was enjoying an idyllic vacation on the island of Curacao with a group of friends when she disappeared without a trace.

Amanda and some friends decided to go snorkeling off Cas Abou Beach on the island, which is located off the coast of Venezuela, at around 3 P.M., according to witnesses. What happened next is a mystery: Matt Myers, another friend on the trip, told reporters that a pregnant friend of Amanda’s got tired and decided to go back to shore, so Amanda swam away from the group a few minutes later to join her.

When Amanda’s husband Allan returned from a scuba-diving trip to the beach around 20 minutes later, she was nowhere to be found.

But many questions remain about how a young woman who was described by her husband as a strong swimmer could vanish into thin air in shallow, clear water. “At first we thought something happened in the water, maybe she caught a leg cramp,” Terri Youngs, who was on the trip, said. “She’s a strong swimmer, from what her husband says.”

 

[holmesleuthing]

Really bothers me that an investigation doesn't seem to have been done. How often does something like this happen there? Any recent life insurance policies, financial issues where her death would benefit? So many unanswered questions after nearly 2 years.

 

[Mysteries1974]

I feel that Amanda was the victim of human trafficking. I also believe that Amy Lynn Bradley, Robyn Lynn Gardner, and Natalee Ann Holloway. There must be a reason for why the bodies of these young women haven’t been found. I think they are still alive and somewhere in the Caribbean or South America.

 

[lindamichelle1]

Amandas body was never found.
She was mentioned in a 2019 article about people who went missing on vacation. No further clues were ever found by the sounds of it.

www.besthospitalitydegrees.com/lists/5-people-who-disappeared-on-vacation/

1. Amanda Waller​

Amanda Waller was a 28-year-old woman from Texas who went missing while on a trip to the island of Curacao. She and her husband had been out snorkeling with friends when she decided she was done and swam back towards shore alone. When her companions returned to shore roughly half an hour later, she was gone. One of the couple’s friends described the water as calm and the weather as sunny, and Waller herself was described as a strong swimmer. No one was certain whether Waller had made it back to shore and no trace of her was ever found.