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From dontdiveenuf: Wouldn’t be at all surprised if it was rough water ... that area can be really nasty; I’ve never dived it myself but just looking at it a few times (when I was living in the area) gave me second thoughts....
And to make that possibility
worse... we dove it the previous Friday (2/15/13) and the conditions
where perfect. I even hesitated to say we had any wave nor surge.
Here’s the latest news...
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CARMEL, Calif. —Two ocean divers died after they were pulled from Whalers Cove in Point Lobos State Reserve south of Carmel on Friday.
The divers were identified Monday as a husband and wife from San Jose: Volodymyr Butsky, 40, and Marina Butsky, 41.
A
family member had been waiting on shore for the divers to return and
alerted a Point Lobos park employee at 2:30 p.m., a State Parks Monterey
Sector Superintendent said.
Other
divers had already pulled Marina Butsky back to shore when CalFire
firefighters arrived, and her husband was still in the ocean. A search
and rescue team launched a boat to reach Volodymyr Butsky at 3 p.m.
Both
divers were unconscious while they were being transported to a Monterey
hospital. Volodymyr Butsky and Marina Butsky were declared dead at the
hospital, the park superintendent said.
The divers’ causes of death were unknown on Monday because a Monterey County Sheriff’s Coroner had not completed autopsies.
State
parks officials said Whaler’s Cove is not considered a challenging spot
for scuba diving and they did not know what caused the couple to become
distressed.
Read more: http://www.ksbw.com/news/central-california/monterey/2-dead-Point-Lobos-scuba-divers-identified/-/5738820/19079368/-/fipo75/-/index.html#ixzz2LxMIH3bX
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