The "going to see the sharks" story was from a poster on ScaredMonkeys.com who indicated that he was Depak Kalpoe.
(Not sure if I buy that one personally.)
I was just over there looking for something else but say the link to the "Depak" email:
http://scaredmonkeys.com/Discussion/viewtopic.php?t=223&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0