BIRMINGHAM, Ala. AP – An Alabama woman had a heart condition that was diagnosed and fixed two years before she drowned during a honeymoon diving trip in Australia, a doctor testified as prosecutors on Friday tried to head off defense claims that medical problems caused her death.
Dr. Farrell Mendelsohn said he considered 26-year-old Tina Thomas Watson to be cured of an irregular heartbeat in 2001 after she underwent a medical procedure. She died in 2003 while diving on a shipwreck on the Great Barrier Reef with Gabe Watson, her husband of 11 days.
