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Feb 3, 2017 · Adventure Water Sports. What Happened to Rob Stewart? The director of the acclaimed documentary 'Sharkwater' disappeared mysteriously after a deep dive off the coast of Key Largo on Tuesday. For...
- The First Reports About The Accident
- Talking to The Keys’ Medical Examiner
- Talking to Peter Sotis
- Digging For Answers
Within days of Stewart’s death, some media reported that he died because a self-serving, Svengali-like instructor named Peter Sotis urged him to perform a dangerous — and ultimately fatal — dive. According to reports, Sotis convinced Stewart to conduct a series of dives that were too deep for his skill level. On the final dive, he came up too fast,...
Stewart’s parents hold Sotis and the dive operation, Horizon Divers, responsible for their son’s death, and their lawyers consequently filed a negligence lawsuit. But when I began scratching beneath the surface, parts of the accepted storyline fell apart. Dr. Thomas Beaver, the Keys’ medical examiner, told me he knew the case would be high-profile ...
I also spoke with Peter Sotis, the last person to dive with Rob Stewart. He had a very different story to tell when I finally tracked him down, suggesting that he’s been set up as the perfect fall guy. “It’s easy to blame me, but it doesn’t mean it’s true,” he says. Sotis is right about that. He’s confident and a little self-important. He likes to ...
After talking with Beaver and Sotis and dozens of other people involved in the accident, I realized that what really happened on the day Stewart died and in the few days following was a much more complicated and disturbing narrative than the one that’s gained popular traction. The real narrative involves the ruined life of the medical examiner who ...
Environmentalist and filmmaker Rob Stewart died in a tragic diving accident. What went wrong and who is to blame?
In the year and a half since Stewart’s death, questions about exactly what happened that day have swirled, provoking a wrongful death lawsuit, finger-pointing and speculation in the small,...
Robert Osborne, producer The Third Dive. When I first heard about Sharkwater director Rob Stewart’s death during a scuba diving accident in the Florida Keys in 2017, my first thought was what a...
Nov 18, 2020 · Rob Stewart was an award-winning filmmaker and diver who died tragically in a diving accident at the age of 37. Many questions still remain about what happened on that day in 2017 and who, if anyone, is to blame.
Feb 4, 2017 · Rob Stewart, the 37-year-old documentarian and conservationist who went missing a couple days ago, was found dead after his body was recovered off the Florida Keys, according to Variety. The US...
