WIDOW Lucia Leung Ka-hung has told of the private grief behind the tireless battle for answers about her husband's death.
And while revisiting the accident scene, she relived the moment she saw the terrible injuries Cheng Pui-man suffered after being hit by a speedboat, and prayed that God would take him away.
'I loved my husband very much. The holiday was a second honeymoon.
'But when I saw him after the crash on the boat, the right side of his face had been taken right off. I just prayed to God that he would go. I didn't want him to suffer any more pain.' Ms Leung likened their relationship to scuba-diving's 'buddy' system, which demands that people do not dive alone.
'The reason I started diving was because of my husband. His English wasn't very good and I translated the diving manuals for him.
'I was his buddy that day and, in every sense, we did everything together.' Ms Leung, who needed 300 stitches in her face, 20 on her arm and lost four of her lower front teeth after she was lashed by the boat's propeller blades, says she could not speak and had to answer questions about the accident in writing.
She surfaced beside her husband just seconds before the boat hit.
