A 13-year-old boy was the first to spot his parents floating facedown near Australia鈥檚 Ningaloo Reef yesterday, after that is feared to have left him and his 10-year-old sister orphaned. Beachgoers failed to resuscitate their mother after her body washed ashore, and their father remains missing at sea.
Kathreen Ricketson, 41, and Robert Shrugg, 48, left their children on the beach while they snorkeled the waters off Elle鈥檚 Beach. The , though an inspector says there is no evidence of a shark attack or suspicious circumstances.
The family had been on a yearlong roadtrip around Australia. Ricketson had been , and planned to turn it into a book. Now, the children are in Perth with family members while officials continue to search for their father.