During a brief opening, Ms Hyde's barrister Andrea Lawrence said the initial one-day inquest held a year after the tragedy in 1973 was "cursory and perfunctory" and left the family "dissatisfied". "Enid's family was concerned the 1973 inquest leaves them with more questions than answers about their mother's disappearance," she said. "(The findings) are telling for what they are not and what they omit." She told the court Ms Hyde rarely drank alcohol, could not swim and was scared of the water, and was a good mother to her six children - none of which was highlighted in the original inquest findings.