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Shaw had affair with SA woman
23/01/2005 16:11 - (SA)
Maryna van Wyk , Rapport
Bloemfontein - Andries van Zyl, owner of the farm where Australian diver Dave Shaw drowned two weeks ago, wants to divorce his wife Debbie.
Van Zyl, 48, alleges his wife had an affair with Shaw, who drowned while trying to bring Andre Dreyer's body to the surface of Boesmansgat at Van Zyl's farm Mount Carmel.
Debbie was apparently in tears when Shaw's body was brought to the surface along with that of Dreyer when police divers retrieved diving equipment from the cave.
Van Zyl said he was angry with Shaw who seduced his wife while visiting the farm in October last year to improve on a cave diving world record.
He said he was away playing golf in Kimberley at the time and Shaw lived in the main house.
"I realised something was wrong when my wife acted strange when I returned. Debbie and Shaw started e-mailing each other. She immediately wiped the e-mails as she was clearly afraid that I would read them."
A diver who was at the cave on the day of Shaw's final dive, said Debbie van Zyl apparently waited all day long. She was shattered when she heard about his death.
She took a T-shirt from his diving bag and put it in her handbag.
He said: "She told us she was 'not okay'."
Van Zyl said his wife planned to go to their flat in Bloemfontein on the Monday after the dive. Shaw also planned to leave immediately after the dive.
Debbie has been in Bloemfontein ever since Shaw's drowning.
She said she couldn't deny that her marriage was in trouble. "I discussed our problems with Dave and asked him for advice. He was a confidante."
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