Don’t go scuba diving with a beneficiary — especially if he just asked you to increase your life insurance

Unfortunately for Tina Watson, it appears that she did not realize that her husband-to-be, Gabe, may not have had her best interests at heart when shortly before the wedding, he asked her to maximize her life insurance and to make him the beneficiary.

In October 2003, Tina Watson drowned while diving with her new husband in Australia at the Great Barrier Reef. 

Although at first thought to be a tragic accident, the coroner was unable to come to that conclusion.

Tina and Gabe had been married for only 11 days when Tina died.  He will now stand trial for her murder.

See CNN, Scuba diver charged in wife’s underwater death, CNN.com, June 21, 2008.

For more information, see this update posting.