abstract:Dead Calm is a 1963 novel by Charles F. Williams, which was the basis for the unreleased film The Deep (by Orson Welles) and the later film Dead Calm (by Phillip Noyce).
The mass bleaching of 1998 was caused by climatic events which stopped wind and currents in the Indian Ocean causing the waters to fall into a deadcalm.
One of the travelers, Andi Veragona, told CNN affiliate WTVF that she was trying to play dead during the attack, and that she was trying to calm Scherr, who was next to her.