It was 2002 and Frolec, who was then 32 and living in Prague, had been looking forward to this Croatian getaway with his diving buddies. Pressures at work had been mounting and his love life was, to put it plainly, complicated. Before leaving for the trip, he decided to break up with his girlfriend of five years to make things official with his new love, Jarka. A year before, he and Jarka had met in a nightclub and, he says, “fell in love immediately”. Earlier that day, Frolec had sent Jarka a text message while he basked in the afternoon sun: “I love you, fox.”