Man entombed in concrete with '3cm to breathe' for 65 hours after 'waking up to roar' A man who was entombed under three concrete slabs with just a few centimetres to breathe for 65 hours has detailed how the ordeal was only the start of decades of trauma.
As he continued to attempt to recover from what happened to him physically and emotionally, Stuart turned to alcohol and it was during this difficult period he met Rosanna Cossettini, who had been a part of the Thredbo community that he and Sally had lived amongst when they moved to New South Wales in 1997.
Carinya Lodge hit the three story concrete constructed Bimbadeen Lodge and trapped Stuart and wife Sally inside.
Stuart cared for Rosanna for 11 years before she died, but admitted he was grateful to have had the opportunity to say goodbye, something which he had been denied when he lost his first wife Sally.
Ski instructor Stuart Diver was 27 when the house he was living in with his wife was caught up in landslide that crushed their home and killed 18 people.
