The Last Attempt
Posted By Chris Engelbrecht on 16 March 2007
The Day Everything Stood Still
The Last Attempt recounts Audrey Mestre's last day in great and intimate detail: Pipin's erratic behaviour, Audrey's gloom. The last dive itself. The dreadful recovery of Audrey from the depths, the rush to the local hospital and then, finally, the end toward which events inexorably moved.
On that awful day the pony tank that should have filled the sled balloon on Audrey's dive was empty. Audrey got to 171 metres, opened the valve, and nothing happened. Someone had tragically forgotten to fill the tank.
Or had deliberately made certain it would be empty.
Make no mistake: Carlos Serra is convinced that Pipin Ferreras is directly responsible for Audrey Mestre's death. His only uncertainty is whether or not Pipin intended to murder his wife. The most riveting passages in The Last Dive are, perhaps, the meticulously detailed evidentiary material addressing that very issue, the matter of intent.
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