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February 16th, 2012 
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GABE WATSON: An emotional day for Watson as hours of Queensland Police audio tapes are played in court.
Standing trial … Gabe Watson / Pic: AAP
Source: AP
GABE Watson was “just hanging out” on another dive boat as others worked frantically to save his dying wife, jurors heard in Watson’s murder for money trial in Birmingham, Alabama.
Townsvlle detective Kevin Gehringer led the panel of eight women and six men through his taped interview with Watson shortly after the fatal dive on the SS Yongala in 2003.
Watson explained he chatted with crew on the large catamaran Spoilsport, went to his cabin and asked for a hug from concerned ladies onboard while resuscitation efforts on his bride of 11 days, Tina, progressed on the boat Jazz II.
He thought his wife might only have had a headache, and collapsed when he heard she had died, he said.
Watson’s attorney Brett Bloomston has opposed the media being given the interview transcripts provided to jurors. Prosecutors had no problem with the public records being released in court.
The documents contain word for word many of the lies prosecutors allege Watson told after Tina’s death, including his claim of “grabbing and shaking” never identified divers as he surfaced looking for help.
Novice diver Tina Watson was found unconscious on the sea floor seven minutes into her first honeymoon dive with Watson. On the tape, Watson explained a sinking Tina wanted to go to the anchor chain but hit his mask and he let go of her.
Watson, an experienced diver with rescue certification, said Tina was sinking, but was not breathing hard and didn’t seem panicked from her facial expression.
“There was never any indication from her that she was needing air,” he told the detective.
“I didn’t know what was going on'” he said. “I thought maybe I’d go get somebody who maybe knows what to do.”
So he picked a point at the anchor chain as a target and “just took off” leaving Tina to sink.
Watson said he was “rocketing” and had “never swum so fast in my life.
But prosecutors say he took nearly three minutes to rise from 15 metres, a pedestrian pace.
The oddest part of Watson’s statement related to the critical minute before he separated from Tina for the last time. He said he was breathing hard and feeling heat on his face, and sensed someone watching him.
“I was thinking those people could see us or at least think something odd was going on,” he said. But earlier Detective Senior Constable Gehringer had asked him if there were any other divers nearby.
“I don’t think there was anybody'” Watson said.
Defence witneses yet to testify have said Tina drowned because she was grossly overweighted and over breathed her regulator. In Watson’s interview with the detective, however, he acknowledged knowing she had 18 to 20 pounds of weight during the fatal dive.
Prosecutors also claim Watson lied during he interview about not getting training during his rescue certification on how to bring a struggling diver to the surface. Watson can clearly be heard saying his course taught him “nothing about how to get somebody.”
He told the detective his diving plan was to drift along the top of the wreck with his wife looking at clown fish but he feared he might get lost.
Watson said his decision to surface rather than follow his sinking wife was a snap decision that it was a better place to get help. In that statement he mentioned nothing about ear pain preventing him from following her.
A stone-faced Watson dipped into a giant tissue box and dabbed his teary eyes with tissues as the tape was played.
Detective Gehringer said Watson was calm giving statements after his wife’s death but became agitated when he learned police were taking his dive equipment, including wrist dive computer, as evidence.
Watson’s attorneys have described Tina’s death as a tragic accident caused by a “perfect storm” of circumstances.
Prosecutors say Watson is a chronic liar who hatched a plot in Alabama to collect a small fortune from life and travel insurance.
The trial is moving at a hectic pace, with testimony expected tomorrow from former Townsville doctor Stanley Stutz and two seasoned divers from Florida who described Watson’s version of events as “bulls**t.”
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