Body found in cave - Santa Cruz Island, California

[DandyDon]

Possibly connected to this incident: Lobster diver missing - Santa Cruz Island, California Painted Cave is a sea cave on Santa Cruz Island in Channel Islands National Park. This sea cave is gigantic, making it the twelfth largest sea cave in the world and the second-largest in the USA.

Santa Barbara Sheriff's investigate recovered diver in connection to 2020 missing person

Santa Barbara Sheriff's Office investigates the recovered body of a deceased diver near Painted Cave Preserve Sunday. Sheriff's speculate the diver could be connected to a 2020 missing person investigation.

keyt.com

SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif.– Santa Barbara Sheriff's Office investigates the recovered body of a deceased diver near Painted Cave Preserve Sunday. Sheriff's speculate the diver could be connected to a 2020 missing person investigation.

Santa Barbara Sheriff's Underwater Search and Recovery team alongside LA Sheriffs' Special Bureau initiated the recovery mission after two bystander divers reported a possible body near the ocean floor in an underwater cave system to local authorities on Nov. 5.


On Nov. 11, officials succeeded in the dive recovery mission. The body of the diver was transported to the Sheriff’s Office Coroner’s Bureau for further investigation and identification determination.

The location of the body corresponds with the last known information of the missing diver in 2020.

 

[Bigbella]

Possibly connected to this incident: Lobster diver missing - Santa Cruz Island, California Painted Cave is a sea cave on Santa Cruz Island in Channel Islands National Park. This sea cave is gigantic, making it the twelfth largest sea cave in the world and the second-largest in the USA.

Nasty story, all around.

Sadly, many news stories associated with diving and/or diving accidents are replete with errors -- including the locales. A relatively recent story of an accident at Carmel's Monastery Beach showed some stock footage of a nearby location, on several news feeds, from here to the UK -- not to mention comments, even by some cops and parks rangers, that "oxygen tanks" may have been spent . .

 

[ROUS]

Sad deal, but hopefully this will give his family some closure.

 

[Jake 10]

Body found in underwater cave may be scuba diver who vanished two years ago

Ryder Sturt, 34, was diving for lobster with a partner on Nov. 29, 2020, and never surfaced,

www.cbsnews.com

 

[Caitlyn20]

Body Identified

The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office Coroner’s Bureau has confirmed the identity of the deceased diver who was recovered from the area of Seal Cove on Nov. 11, 2022.

The decedent is 31-year-old Ryder Sturt of Ventura who was reported missing on Nov. 29, 2020.

Sturt was diving for lobster on Nov. 29, 2020, when he failed to resurface. His dive partner radioed for help from the Coast Guard, and despite hours of searching, Sturt was never found.

His remains were recovered from the water near Painted Cave Preserve on Santa Cruz Island last month.

Investigators reportedly utilized rapid DNA technology to confirm the diver's identity.