THIRD DEATH IN MONTH REPORTED AT DIVING SPOT.Byline: Daily News Staff and Wire Reports A San Francisco man who was found unconscious Monday in an underwater cavern off the Channel Islands was the third diver to die this month at the popular Ventura County diving spot, authorities said. Peter Yan, 33, was among 30 passengers on a three-day chartered dive boat trip. Yan was diving without a partner off Santa Cruz Island San·ta Cruz Island An island off southern California in the northern Santa Barbara Islands. near Diablo Point when he was reported missing at about 2:30 p.m. Monday, said U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer John Howk. After receiving the distress call, Coast Guard crews flew out to help two people from the boat's crew who were looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. Yan. Yan was found within 15 minutes on the ocean floor inside an underwater cavern. Yan was airlifted to Columbia Los Robles Robles is a common surname in the Spanish language meaning oaks, and may refer to:
An autopsy performed by the Ventura County medical examiner found that Yan died of asphyxiation asphyxiation /as·phyx·i·a·tion/ (as-fix?e-a´shun) suffocation; the stoppage of respiration. Asphyxiation Oxygen starvation of tissues. , which was due to his tank running out of air. On Dec. 15, Timothy J. McFadden, a 34-year-old sea urchin diver from Ventura, died after he was pulled unconscious from the waters off San Clemente Island San Clemente Island An island of southern California in the Santa Barbara Islands south of Santa Catalina Island. . Oscar Urzua, 45, of Huntington Park drowned Dec. 1 while diving near Santa Cruz Island. |
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